BEER lovers have to wait a while longer before Reading’s Beer and Cider Festival returns – it has been cancelled for this year.
Instead of raising their glasses to the popular event for the first time since 2019, real ale drinkers will be downing their sorrows instead.
The event had been planned to take place at its Kings Meadow home from June 23-26, with organisers revealing the date last month.
However, this weekend they have revealed that it can no longer take place.
It would have been the 25th event, and a bit of a party.
In a post on the group’s Facebook page, organiser Dave Scott explained that the cancellation was due to the events industry only being at the start of their recovery and there was an infrastructure shortage, making it impossible to create the festival site.
“Unfortunately, I have therefore been forced to make the difficult and sad decision to cancel the event in 2022,” he wrote.
“You have my heartfelt apologies for having to cancel the event.”
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However, the team are already making plans for next year.
Verity Postgate-Cronbach, the Beer Festival’s volunteering manager, added: “I and lots of other volunteers (who worked bloody hard to get us as close as we got) are going to be putting everything into making sure RBF23 happens and is bloody amazing,” she promised.
“Watch this space as we’re going to need your help to get there.”
Twyford’s Beer Festival will be going ahead, raising funds for male cancer charity Orchid.
