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 Opening Times
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Opening Times |
Admission |
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Thursday |
5 February |
6pm – 11pm |
£3 |
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Friday |
6 February |
4pm – 11pm |
£6 |
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Saturday |
7 February |
12 noon – 9pm |
£6 |
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Opening Times |
Admission |
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Thu 5 Feb |
6pm-11pm |
£3 |
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Fri 6 Feb |
4pm-11pm |
£6 |
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Sat 7 Feb |
12noon-9pm |
£6 |
The venue is the Atherton Roller Rink.
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How To Find Us
The Festival is at the Atherton Roller Rink
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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 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.
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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.
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination.
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
A well made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
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.
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.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and, furthermore, always carry a small snake.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
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.
You, sir, are drunk.
And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
I drink to make other people interesting.
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol, than alcohol has taken out of me.
There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.
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.
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.”
Put it back in the horse!
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
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.
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.
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.
All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.
One more drink and I’d be under the host.
Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.
| Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. |
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
| When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. |
Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your drink.
Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it.
I’m allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.









