Tickets now on sale for Darlington Beer Festival 2026

The festival, which returns one year after punters drank the bar dry the year before, will take place at Hopetown Museum from Friday, March 20 until Sunday, March 22.

This year’s festival will have more than 50 ales, beers and ciders on offer as well as street food.

Tickets are free if you are a CAMRA member. Members can also pay £6 for a beer glass and two half-pint beer tokens.

For regular punters, tickets are priced at £10 for each day. This also includes a beer glass and two half-pint beer tokens.

Punters drank the festival dry last year (Image: Stuart Boulton/The Northern Echo)

Multi-day tickets are also available to buy.

Friday and Saturday is split up into two slots, with day tickets running from 11.30am until 4.30pm. Tickets for Sunday are all day from 12pm until 8pm.

A Darlington Beer Festival spokesperson said: “Tickets are available now and include a drinks token and a festival glass.

More than 50 ales will be on offer at this year’s festival (Image: Stuart Boulton/The Northern Echo)

“In a change to last year’s festival,  we will have street food on offer all day for attendees and more than 50 ales, craft and cider. People can keep up to date on the event through our Darlington Beer Festival 2026 social media.

A poster for this year’s festival (Image: DARLINGTON BEER FESTIVAL)

“Darlington CAMRA are very excited about this year’s festival after the overwhelming success of 2025.”

Last November, organiser CAMRA confirmed the festival will be armed with more beer after the festival infamously ran out.

On the final day of the festival, there will also be a Home Brew Challenge taking place, for which there are limited places available.