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Aug 2021

Last Updated: 03/08/2021

Harrogate

New Harrogate Beer Week raises glass to local pubs and breweries

by Connor Creaghan

| 03 Aug, 2021

The beer week will run from September 20 to 26. During the week there will be a programme of special events across different venues in Harrogate.

Local pubs and breweries will be the focus of the first ever Harrogate Beer Week, which starts next month.

The beer week will run from September 20 to 26. During the week there will be a programme of special events across different venues in Harrogate.

There will also be an indie beer trail, live local music and a home brewing competition on the the cards. It will all culminate with a big beer weekend in the town centre.

If successful, the organiser hopes that she will be able to bring it back on an annual basis.

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Rachel Auty, who founded Women on Tap, is behind the new project. She said:

"This brand new event will be a spotlight on the very best of what’s on offer in Harrogate and will be created and delivered by people who actually live and work here.

"I would love it to become an annual flagship event that is proven to deliver direct benefit to the town centre, independent beer and food businesses.

"It’s been such an awful 15 months and I am determined to bring some beer-themed joy back to our indies and communities this autumn."

She believes that, with five big breweries in the district, there is nothing to stop Harrogate from standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Leeds and Sheffield.

Harrogate BID is helping to finance Harrogate Beer Week. BID manager Matthew Chapman said:

"We’re really excited to be supporting September’s Harrogate Beer Week, particularly as it will involve a host of local bars and pubs.

"It will be a fantastic opportunity for beer lovers to have a pint or two in different venues, which as an organisation dedicated to driving footfall into all parts of the town centre appealed to us.

"And whilst it’s still a few weeks away, we are happy to raise a glass to its undoubted success, and say ‘cheers, Rachel’."

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