At a new venue this year – St John’s Parish Hall in Staincross, Barnsley. The beer festival is a fundraiser for the friends of Mapplewell and Staincross, a community organisation that organises for the villages to have things like Christmas lights, flower displays, defibrillator etc. Entry fee is £5 and gets you a festival glass. Bus number 1 from Barnsley gets you there.

Held at St Lawrence Parish Church with over 200 beers and ciders to choose from. Advance tickets advisable, free CAMRA members entry requires booking online.

Spread across various stations this preserved railway that runs from Loughborough to Leicester.

The bars in these two adjacent rural pubs, located a 10-15 minute walk from Chinley station, are supplemented by pop up festival bars both in the Old Hall and its beer garden to offer a large range of cask ales along with food and music. An engine or two from Buxworth Steam Festival will also be dropping in too!

Now held at Arden Road Social Club in Halifax, featuring a varied range of around 60 beers including some from wooden casks plus a dozen traditional ciders to choose from. Website.

Their autumn fundraising event includes a mini beer festival bar, music, food and craft stalls. Open 12-8pm, Free entry.

Perch and a number of other City Centre pubs team up for this event

Regular pub beer festival with a whole host of extra choice on a pop up bar! The Brunswick is two minutes from Derby railway station with regular fast trains from Sheffield.

The 4th edition of this regular event – Clockfest – held at this micropub, with a focus on new beers you might not have tried before. Northern trains on the Sheffield-Lincoln line call at Retford every hour.

Annual charity fundraiser  held at the Worsbrough Sports & Development Association (old Miners Welfare club). Open 2-10pm Fri/Sat and 2-4pm Sunday. Tickets are sold on on the door cost £12 with souvenir glass and 4 beer tokens included.

At Trent Bridge Cricket Ground featuring over 500 different cask ale and other craft beers, over 100 traditional ciders and perries plus live music and food traders. Website. Trains run from Sheffield to Nottingham every half hour.

a range of 30 beers, including some specialty ales and international brewers, spread across the regular pub bar and a pop up festival bar. Regular buses, trams and trains go to Rotherham from Sheffield.

The Derby Heritage beer festival relocates for 2026 to Derby Market Hall and will offer over 100 cask ales, keg beers, ciders and perries. Regular fast trains run from Sheffield to Derby.

We’re back at Kelham Island Museum for our 50th Steel City Beer & Cider Festival featuring about 200 different cask ales plus other craft beers in keg, bottle and can along with traditional cider & perry, live music, games, street food traders and more.

40+ ales, ciders and perries plus food and music at the Gainsborough Trinity Supporter’s (The Blues) Club. Northern trains on the Sheffield-Lincoln line call at Gainsborough Lea Road station every hour.

Back at their classic venue – “The Halls”. More information and advance tickets online at norwich.camra.org.uk. EMR run an hourly train service from Sheffield to Norwich.

The “Ale’oween” edition of their regular beer festival, involving a stillage full of extra beers in their basement function room. This pub is next to the Sheffield bound platform at Worksop railway station, Northern trains go there every hour.

Held at the Kidderminster Harriers Social & Supporters Club featuring around 40 beers and 15 ciders plus wines, spirits, soft drinks and snacks. Live entertainment Friday night. Entry tickets are a package that includes entry, programme, glass and beer tokens and are slightly cheaper if purchased online in advance. Website.

Direct trains run from Sheffield to Darlington

This pub in Heeley hosts the winter edition of their regular beer festival, which features a pop up bar in the conservatory and further festival beers in the kiosk outside. This event normally sees a number of strong and dark options!

Hackney, East London.