Bent N Bongs Beer Bash (Atherton Beer Festival)

Festival Details

Festival Description

The Bent and Bongs Charitable Trust, in association with CAMRA, present the 34th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash, February 6 - 8, 2025.

Dates and Times

Opening times for the 2025 festival are:

Thursday 6 February	6pm - 11pm	TBC
Friday 7 February	4pm - 11pm	TBC
Saturday 8 February	12pm - 9pm	TBC

Entry to the beer festival is pay-on-the-door only. There are no advance tickets other than those for sponsors.

Venue

Venue: Atherton Roller Rink.

Rail - Atherton station
From the station walk down to the lights. Turn right and follow the road until you see Asda on the left. The Roller Rink is next to Asda.

Buses
For details of local bus routes please see our more detailed How To Find Us page.

Beers

More details about the beers closer to the festival. There will be plenty of favourites, and plenty of new brews.

Music and Entertainment

All sessions will have live entertainment. Check back a bit closer to the festival for details.

Food and Festival Fodder

All sessions will have heaps of yummy, scrummy food. The perfect accompanyment to heaps of yummy, scrummy beer.

New To The Festival - Getting Your First Pint

When you enter the festival we will give you your souvenir glass.

We can't stress this enough. Look after your glass. Your glass is your drinking vessel for the whole session and is yours to keep when you head for home. Treat your glass as your friend. Hold it carefully. Keep it out of harm's way. There are no spare glasses kept behind the bars so when you turn up for a drink you need your glass.

Remember! No glass = no beer!

Do not put your glass on the barrier around the rink itself. It's too easy for it to be knocked off and break. A broken glass means no glass. Remember! No glass = no beer!

The festival runs on a token system. To buy beer you must first buy tokens.

The token desk is at the end of the roller rink where you came in.

Once you have your tokens, head for your bar of choice. Please do not try to use cash. The bar staff cannot accept it and will send you to the token desk to buy tokens.

Remember! No tokens = no beer!

Payment for tokens is cash, card, or contactless.

The token desk will cash in any unused tokens at the end of the night. N.B. Tokens are valid only on the day you buy them. They do not roll over from one day to the next.

The rink is organised into 5 bars:

- Ciders and Perrys
- Real Ales
- Craft Corner
- Belgium, Foreign, and Fruit Beers
- Gin and Prosecco

The real ales are organised alphabetically by brewery so when looking for the beer of your choice just follow the letters.

Sponsor the Festival

Sponsors details coming soon ...

Photography

Enormous thanks to the photographers who volunteered their time for 2024. You are all brilliant.

We'll be doing our best to get them back again for 2025.

Keep Me Informed

The best way by far to hear about future festivals is to subscribe to our email list. We won't spam you. We won't share your email address. You'll get a handful of emails a year mostly around the time of the festival.

Sign-up here: Opt-in to the Bent and Bongs Email List

On social we are:
Facebook
Twitter/X: @bentnbongs
... but we have absolutely no control over whether these platforms keep you up to date with anything we post.

We also run a blog at blog.bentnbongs.com.

We seem to have adopted the hashtag #bentnbongs for chatter about the festival.

Preserved for all posterity, and for anyone struggling to sleep, the details for the 2024 and earlier festivals are saved here.



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