This is Spud, the Great Crested Grebe. He is the mascot for our Suffolk and Norfolk Beer festival in September. He will be appearing on the front of the festival programme. We think he needs a speech bubble. What do you think he should say? Answers either on paper available from bar staff, or to: [...]

We are delighted to announce the dates of our biggest ever beer festival with over 140 beers featured, from 69 breweries. There will be a £2 returnable deposit for glasses but other than that there is no entrance fee and all the entertainment is free. Majestic Brass will kick the festival off on Thursday evening [...]

Our Yorkshire Beer Festival kicks off at 5pm this evening. Click here to download the programme, complete with the final list of beers and tasting notes. It's a pdf file – if you can't open it we recommend the free Foxit Reader

We're just putting the finishing touches to our biggest ever Yorkshire Beer Festival which begins this Thursday 26th February at 5pm. A few last minute changes are that the Hammersmith Morris Men will now be dancing for us at 1pm on Sunday and on Friday night, musical entertainment comes from DJ Steve Carnello. Entrance to [...]

The final preparations are being made for our biggest beer festival yet! Join us next weekend, Thursday 26th February until Sunday 1st March, for our Yorkshire Beer Festival – featuring beer from every single brewery in Yorkshire currently brewing. In a last-minute change to the programme, we're sorry to say that Majestic Brass are sadly [...]

This week we return to the popular Downton Brewery in Salisbury, for an selection of their excellent ales on guest: Elderquad 4% Black Knight 4.1% Honey Blonde 4.3% Nelson's Delight 4.5% Crowning Glory 4.6% We're also pleased to announce our new pub quiz night, every Tuesday at 8pm. The first is on 27th January – [...]

Majestic Brass Christmas Concert – Saturday 20th December at 7pm Majestic Brass are a Bricklayer's Arms institution, many of you know and love them from our beer festivals. There's no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than with the sound of a brass band – they'll even dress up as Santa! Don't miss [...]

Beer and jazz make perfect session partners, so why not join us on Wednesday 29th October for the first of our ‘Bricklayer’s Arms Jazz Sessions’. Some of the top players on the UK music scene have put together a relaxing selection of jazz classics for your enjoyment – the music starts at 8.30pm and admission [...]

Thanks to everyone who visited us this weekend to make our Cumbrian Beer Festival a success. If you didn't make it, or you did and fancy another pint of the far North-West's finest ales, then come and help drink us dry. All beers in the courtyard are now £1 per pint!

The Bricklayer's Arms is proud to bring you our Cumbrian Beer Festival, 12th – 14th September 2008. Cumbria has more microbreweries than any other county in the UK, and we're pleased to bring you a selection of the best beers from the region. Many of them have yet to be picked up by the Good [...]