Picture a beer festival that involves us inviting some of the UK’s finest breweries to create a unique event with close to 100 beers being poured across a wide range of styles and ABV’s. Add in a selection of delicious street food options and an line-up of ace live music and you've just imagined Suds With Buds!

Saturday July 5th, across as six-hour session between 2pm and 8pm. The festival spans the whole of our site at Hornbeam Park, covering the brewery itself, the Taproom, beer garden, The Sample Room upstairs and the brewery yard.

Every part of the festival is wheelchair accessible, apart from The Sample Room. However, some areas have more limited accessibility than others - please get in touch if you have any questions relating to this.

The event is budgeted to break even, with a variety of costs needing to be covered in order to pull it off. Here’s a brief breakdown of some of the costs the ticket price covers: The combined, associated costs of hosting all the breweries to help enable them to join us and pour their beers • Security, first aid and the provision of a wellness area • Event staffing • Additional event toilets • Paying the bands, DJ's and musicians • Staging, sound management and other associated equipment • VAT @ 20%

The festival is a cashless event, with each brewery and street food trader providing their own card facilities for payment.

As much as we’ve tried to make the event a family friendly one, for a variety of reasons, Suds With Buds is an over 18’s only festival. Sorry for any disappointment or inconvenience this may cause. Hopefully there’s enough time from tickets going on sale to the event taking place for any necessary childcare arrangements to be made if you’re reading this and don’t want to miss out.

Ordinarily, we love having dogs join us at the Taproom, but we’re sorry to say Suds With Buds won’t be a dog-friendly event. With the brewery being opened up for bars and seating, coupled with the layout of the space dictating that everyone at some point will need to pass through what is a essentially a food production facility, we’re unable to allow our four-legged friends to attend. With hundreds of people expected, it could also prove to be a worrying environment for certain dogs to find themselves in. Please note: this rule excludes service dogs.

As well as a trader being in the Taproom kitchen, we’ll have three additional street food vendors in the brewery yard. Combined, all four will be serving up some of the tastiest food the North has to offer, across an eclectic mix of styles and dietary requirements. We’ll announce who each of the traders are in the run up to the event.

Yes! The Beer Garden will be playing host to a live music stage that’ll boast an incredible line-up of talent, both local to Harrogate and from further afield too - ideal for pairing with some fantastic beers with your buds. There’ll also be a vinyl DJ spinning some funky tunes in the brewery throughout the day.

No, the Taproom will be closed on Saturday July 5th, operating purely for the purpose of Suds With Buds between 2pm and 8pm. It will be open as usual on both Friday July 3rd and Sunday July 5th.