Craft Beer Experience

At the Craft Beer Experience you’ll have access to some of the best beers around — you’ll have the opportunity to try some much-hyped new brews, taste core range beers and classic styles, and sample some things that might be new to you.

Over the beautiful Assembly Roxy’s three floors there will be a Scottish breweries showcase, a European breweries tap takeover, and an assortment of the best UK breweries. Below is a selection of the breweries pouring at the festival.

This year will also see the return of the Replicale contest, which proved popular with guests and breweries alike last year. In this contest, a selection of the Scottish breweries exhibiting in the Main Hall have the challenge of making a beer of the same style exclusively to pour at the festival, but the specifications for what ingredients go in the beer are left up to the brewers themselves. All the entries are judged by a panel of local experts, and the winning beer gets a trophy (and bragging rights!).