Exeter Festival of Beers (EFOB) 2023

Special Event: Tutored Beer Tastings

The Tutored Beer Tastings are separately-ticketed events
within the Festival, which include Festival admission.

Cost of tickets: £17 per session.

Tutored Tasting session ticket-holders who are card-carrying CAMRA members, and
also Students, will be given an additional free half-pint token on entry upon presentation
of a valid CAMRA Membership card or Student ID.

Note: Entry Tickets for the main festival alone, are only available on the door.
Beer Tokens for the festival are sold separately at the event.

The Sessions:

Thursday 19th January 19:00-20:00: Brewer and Consumer
**Update 10/01/23: This session has been cancelled.**
There is more to beer than amber, pale, golden and brown, and there are many different ways
to tell a good one.  Brewer Dan Clayton from Cottage Beer Project, near Bampton, and
consumer beer writer Tim Webb, from The World Atlas of Beer, will lead a tutored tasting of six
Devon beers from bolder styles.  Three of these will be from Dan’s own brewery and three from
others in Devon, all highlighting the range of different classic styles in which traditional British
ales are brewed, from the brewer’s and the consumer’s perspective.  

Friday 20th January 13:00-14:00: Cask and Bottle
**Update 10/01/23: This session has been cancelled.**
Ever since it was founded, 50 years ago, CAMRA has recognised two very different types of
“real ale” - cask-conditioned and bottle-conditioned, but as only five bottle-conditioned beers
had survived the 20th century, and none of these were available in cask, the Campaign
concentrated on cask.  The recent UK beer revival now sees almost 1,000 bottle-conditioned
beers being made in the UK, yet it is rare to get an opportunity to try the same beer in both
formats, side by side.  This tasting will do just that, comparing and contrasting the same beer
from cask and bottle, with some surprising results. 

Friday 20th January 19:00-20:00:  Back to the future - some of Devon’s best bottled beers 
**Update 10/01/23: This session has been cancelled.**
CAMRA is traditionally associated with cask ales, but there is a whole lot more to Britain's
brewing history than that.  Back in the 19th century the UK’s best beers came from a much
broader range of styles than that found today, and the best of these came from the bottle.  
As UK beer continues its gradual revival, this tutored tasting will introduce some of the
West Country beers that are starting to push back the boundaries of beer, without having
to add flour, fruit syrup or battery acid!   

Saturday 21st January 13:00-14:00:  Monks who make beer
**Update 10/01/23: This session is confirmed.**
The most important influencers in the early history of beer were found in monasteries and
abbeys.  To this day, some abbeys, particularly those from the Trappist Order, in Belgium, the
Netherlands and elsewhere, continue to make astonishingly good beers  that have inspired
brewers around the world.  Tim Webb, for 30 years the author of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide
Belgium, will introduce some of the monastic beers of Belgium and elsewhere, and talk about
how this most unlikely of religious pursuits has survived.

Online ticketing will be available from this page from 09:00 on Saturday 10th December:

TICKETING PAGE for Tutored Tasting Sessions at EFOB 2023.
Note: Tickets for the main Festival alone, are only available on the door.
Beer Tokens for the festival are sold separately.