The Bent and Bongs Charitable Trust, in Association with CAMRA, Welcome You to the 35th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash

BBBB 2026

The Bent and Bongs Beer Bash is Over for 2026

If you came we hope you had a good time

2026 Photos

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Saturday SURVIVORS

2026 Opening Times

Opening Times

Admission

Thursday

5 February

6pm – 11pm

£3

Friday

6 February

4pm – 11pm

£6

Saturday

7 February

12 noon – 9pm

£6

Opening Times

Admission

Thu 5 Feb

6pm-11pm

£3

Fri 6 Feb

4pm-11pm

£6

Sat 7 Feb

12noon-9pm

£6

The venue is the Atherton Roller Rink.

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Thanks a bazillion … and see you at the next event …

How To Find Us

The Festival is at the Atherton Roller Rink

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All The Details

Everything you want to know about the 2026 Bent and Bongs Beer Bash.

When, where, who’s playing, and all the info you could ever want if this is your first beer bash.

The 2026 Beer List – One Helluva Bar

There are cask beers, ciders, fruit ciders, craft beers, lagers, Belgium beers, fruit beers, and plenty of gins.

Choose your tipple …

Gentleman George’s Beer Trail

He’s back. The Bent and Bongs Beer Svengali.

If you aren’t sure where to start, or you want to try the best beers in the festival, follow the 2026 Gentleman George beer trail.

Sponsors – Thank You, Thank You, and a Hundred Times THANK YOU

Thank you, thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU to our wonderful sponsors for 2026.

To everyone reading this, please consider these folks if you are looking for a roofer, or accountant, or builder, or windows, or you have a locomotive to restore. Seriously!! These guys are supporting the festival and so by definition supporting YOUR community. We believe they deserve your support in return.

Join The 2026 Staffing Team …

It’s fun. It’s friendly. You get to wear the hallowed staff staff tee shirt. Oh – and there’s some free beer too. What’s not to love about all that? Join the 2026 beer festival staffing team and all these riches can be yours.

If you’ve staffed before or you want to try it for the first time, fill in our staffing form here and we’ll do the rest.

Want to try staffing for the first time? You don’t need any prior experience. We’ll look after you from the moment you arrive. And if you aren’t enjoying it you can leave any time you like. Still not convinced – get in touch with any questions and we’ll get straight back to you.

2026 Full Details

Everything you want to know about the 2026 Bent and Bongs Beer Bash. When, where, who’s playing, and all the info you could ever want if this is your first beer bash.

2026 Beer List

Cask beers, ciders, craft corner, lagers, Belgium beers, and fruit beers. Choose your tipple …

2026 How To Sponsor

Full details about how to sponsor the festival, what’s available, and what it includes.

New for 2026 is the 1/2 barrel package, designed specifically for groups and friends.

Sponsor Spotlight – Astley Hire

Astley Hire have supported the festival from the year dot. 2026 will be their 60th year in business, their anniversary falling scarily close to the 2026 beer bash.

They have helped the festival so much over the years that we are making no excuses for doing a bit of PR for them and generally sending out some goodwill. Have a read about what they’ve done, where they came from, and generally how they can help you with you equipment hire and training requirements.

  • Thank You Astley Hire

    Helping Thirty Five Beer Festivals Thank you Astley Hire for supporting the beer festival since, well, since forever. We managed to trace some mention of them as far back as our 2003 sponsors. This is only because 2003 is about as far back as our digital records go. Things get a bit murkey trying to…

Who Benefits (Where Does The Money Go?)

The Bent and Bongs Beer Bash is governed and operated by a charity, The Bent and Bongs Charitable Trust. This charity exists to raise money for other local charities, not for profits, and good causes. If you want to see where the money ultimately ends up, head over to the charity’s dedicated blog.

Drink Responsibly – Get Help If You Need It

The Bent N Bongs Beer Bash supports responsible drinking.

If you are worried about your own or someone else’s drinking, Drinkaware can help you or someone you know make better choices about alcohol.

If you have, or think you might have, a problem with alcohol and want to get help, Rehab Recovery offer a free hotline where you can talk to people who have already been through it.

If You Feel Unsafe – Ask For Angela

If you feel threatened, unsafe, or in an uncomfortable position while attending the beer festival please approach any of the senior staff (grey coloured tee shirts) and Ask for Angela. We’ll help you straight away.


Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into.

Don Marquis

If you drink, don’t drive.  Don’t even putt.

Dean Martin

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.

Joe E. Lewis

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

William James

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

Mick Jaggar

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Clement Freud

A well made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.

M. F. K. Fisher

Wouldn’t it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

W. C. Fields

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had nothing to live on but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and, furthermore, always carry a small snake.

W. C. Fields

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Miguel De Cervantes

The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.

Richard Braunstein

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.

William Butler Yeats

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

W. C. Fields

I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

W. C. Fields

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Frank Zappa

You, sir, are drunk.

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

Bessie Braddock and Winston Churchill

I drink to make other people interesting.

Dave Barry

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.

W. C. Fields

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol, than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking.

Benjamin Franklin

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

Stephen Wright

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.

Ernest Hemingway

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”

Jack Handy

Put it back in the horse!

H. Allen Smith, drinking his first American beer

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Edward Abbey

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.

David Moulton

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Dave Barry

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Dave Barry

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

Dave Barry

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

Dave Barry

One more drink and I’d be under the host.

Dorothy Parker

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.

Catherine Zandonella
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

David Daye
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your drink.

Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it.

Lady Astor and Winston Churchill

I’m allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.

Greg Norman

Breweries / Drivers – If you are looking for the venue to collect empties, the directions are linked here for you: