Wetherspoon is selling pints from £1.99 starting next week in 12-day 'festival'

28 February 2024 , 13:40

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Wetherspoon punters will be able to get cheap beers (Image: Getty Images)

Wetherspoon is bringing back its 12-day real ale festival from next week, with prices starting from £1.99 in a selection of pubs.

The popular event will allow punters to try 30 different ales, including five from overseas brewers in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Taiwan and the USA. Prices will start from £1.99 at around 50 pubs, and from £2.49 at the majority of Wetherspoon boozers.

Three third-of-a-pint tasters will also be available for the price of a pint. The real ale festival will begin next Wednesday (March 6) and will end the following Sunday (March 17). Wetherspoon runs two real ale festivals every year - one in the spring and another in autumn.

Tasting notes on all of the beers will be available in the pub as part of the festival magazine, while a digital version will be available on the Wetherspoon app and website. Here are some of the drinks that will be available:

• Spring Frenzy (Daleside Brewery)

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• Grizzly Bear IPA (Shepherd Neame)

• Disco Macaw (Redpoint Brewing, Taiwan)

• Crafty Fox (Hook Norton Brewery)

• Bite the Bullet! (Oakham Ales)

• Bingo Lady (The Lost Abbey Brewing Company, USA)

• Chocolate Ale (Leikeim Brewery, Germany)

• Parts and Labour (Rooster’s Brewery)

• Germain (Brouwerij De Bock, Belgium)

• Roasted Nuts (Rebellion Brewery)

• Falstaff (Birrificio Gregorio, Italy)

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Marketing manager Jen Swindells said: “The festival is a great celebration of real ale. It will allow us, during a 12-day period, to showcase a selection of value-for-money beers, including those from overseas. It will also give our customers the opportunity to enjoy several beers which have not previously been available in the pubs, as well as those brewed especially for the festival.”

Wetherspoon has more than 800 pubs across the UK - you can locate your nearest booze by entering your postcode on its online pub finder tool. It comes as it was revealed Wetherspoon will open its first ever pub at a holiday park as part of a new deal with Haven.

Wetherspoon will open at Haven Primrose Valley Holiday Park in North Yorkshire in March. Haven, which runs 38 parks in the UK and was acquired by Blackstone in 2021, is the first holiday provider to strike an “exclusive agreement” with Wetherspoon. It comes as part of a £4million investment Haven is making into its food and beverage offerings in 2024.

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