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Latest updates :

16th June 2026 – added details of beer festivals at The Redoubt in Harwich, and The Rodney in Little Baddow (which I really want to call The Little Rodney in Baddow) to the Beer Festivals in Essex listing.

10th June 2026 – added a link to the Launch Party for Aerocraft Brewery’s new tap (and grub) room in Braintree to the Essex Breweries listing.

4th June 2026 : I’ve been busy with lots of other things! Almost finished clearing out and repurposing the brewhouse. The garden is coming along well. Trips away to York, Lincoln and Stamford. But nose to the grindstone and a few updates to the Beer Festivals in Essex listing.

20th March 2026 : added Easter Beer Festival at The Bell Inn, Feering to the Beer Festivals in Essex listing.

12th March 2026 : updated the Beer Festivals in Essex listing with Brentwood Brewery’s Beer, Cider and Burger festival in March, and more Easter beer festivals, viz : The Orange Tree in Chelmsford and the Leigh on Sea Brewery in Southend.

10th March 2026 : added a blog about our couple of days away in York, entitled A Beery Break in York

8th February 2026 : added beer festivals at The Maybush Inn, Great Bentley (next week!) and The Woolpack Easter Beer Festival to the Beer Festivals in Essex listing.

5th February 2026 : added a blog about our trip to Chelmsford, to visit the Chelmsford Museum, Bills, John Lewis, The Ale House, and Radio City Social Winter Stout Festival.

Thursday 29th January 2026 : added the Radio City Social Winter Stout Festival in Chelmsford in early February, The Endeavour in Chelmsford beer festival at the end of February, the Chelmsford Brew Co. festival in March and the Shed Brewers Beer Festival at The Victoria Inn in Colchester in May to the Beer Festivals in Essex listing. And a first blog in eight years!

Wednesday 28th January 2026 : added SG Brewing in Coggeshall to the Essex Breweries listing.

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