The team at Siren Craft Brew are getting into the Festival spirit as Reading Pride 2025 nears, taking place this year on Saturday, August 30.
The Finchampstead brewery is releasing an exclusive beer for the event which will support Reading Pride and the associated MyUmbrella LGBT+ awareness project. Meanwhile the brewery’s RG1 bar on Friar Street in Central Reading has been designated an official after party venue.
The result of some creative thinking and experimentation within the production team, led by Jez and Emily, Low-Key Loud is the Festival beer, a 5% IPA with Pineapple and Peppercorns.
In Reading, RG1’s outside area will be extended across Station Hill with an outside bar including beers from LGBTQ+ brewery Queer Brewing on tap, DJ and additional furniture, including bean bags outside of Ebb&Flow from 12pm to 5pm.
RG1’s Pride menu will include Poutine with a peppercorn sauce matching the food up with the Festival beer. At the bar, visitors will have the option of Siren’s beer range as well as ‘Pride Spritz’, followed by an evening of Pride Cocktails.
Reading Pride takes place at King’s Meadow in Reading from 12:30pm to 7:30pm with a full line-up of entertainment across multiple stages, a funfair, family area and plenty of food an drink.
Preceding the event, the Love Unites Parade will commence at 11am, travelling around the Town Centre, through Forbury Gardens and will arrive at the Festival site for midday.
Comment Rachelle Bownes, General Manager at Station Hill: “We’re proud to have Siren Craft Brew as part of Station Hill, and to be working alongside its RG1 bar to support Reading Pride 2025 as part of a celebration that brings our community together, in the spirit of inclusion and equality. Station Hill is a development open to everyone, and we believe that events like this help to make Reading a place where every person feels seen, valued, and proud of who they are.
Lucy Finnis, Assistant General Manager at RG1 added: “Our goal for RG1 is to become the centre of this community. We’re a new bar, and there’s a new community being built around us. We want the bar to be a central hub for it.
“We’ve built good relationships in the immediate area, which you can see from the funding provided by Station Hill and Ebb & Flow.
“A former resident above us put us forward as a Pride ‘after party’ venue this year, and we’re part of a group of venues for Pride attendees to head to after the event, alongside great Reading venues like the Oakford Social Club and Blagrave Arms.
“RG1 as a venue is open to everyone and we look forward to seeing you all for the Pride after party!”
