PettFest 2026

Your local beer festival

22^nd-25^th May

PettFest is back, bigger and better than ever; more beer, more cider, more music and more fun!

Free Parking All Weekend (Not Overnight)

Real Ale & Cider

Hand picked local beer and cider
from our favourite producers

Food

Charity BBQ – Hog Roast – Pub Grub
Neapolitan Wood Fired Pizza

Live Music

Daily live entertainment featuring
top local musicians

Skeleton Saturday

What’s a Skeleton’s favourite song?
Bone to be wild!

We want to see you in your finest Skeleton outfits on Saturday, will you be a dead ringer or purely humerus?
It’s going to be bone-afide fun!

Prizes for the best costume, judged early evening, before the Saturday night femur takes hold…

Click here to learn about the SKELETON ARMY

Real Ale & Cider

Here we showcase some of the best (in our opinion) local breweries and cideries as well as our friends at Howl brewery in Bude and event sponsors Green King.
A special mention to Rother Valley Brewing Company who are retiring after 35 years brewing in Northiam. Renowned for only using English hops and ingredients, bucking modern trends, and delivering highly regarded traditional beers. Look out for Curtain Call and Exit – the latter being their final brew – and raise a glass to these exceptional brewers.

Real Ales

Three Acre – Sussex Mild – 3.3%
Pig and Porter – Caravan – 3.4%
Long Man – Sleeping Giant – 3.8%
Greene King – Brightside – 4%
Pig and Porter – Scarecrow – 4%
Greene King – Hopping Special – 4.2%
Tonbridge – Das Kolner – 4.3%
Only With Love – Sunup – 4.4%
Long Man – Oatmeal Stout – 4.4%
Rother Valley – Curtain Call – 4.4%
Tonbridge – New Zealand Pale – 4.5%
Howl – Firkin Herbert – 4.5%
Only With Love – Peeler – 4.8%
Kent – Pamona – 5%
Three Acre – Rolling Thunder – 5.3%
Rother Valley – Exit – 5.7%

Real Ciders

Ascension – Shimmy – 3.4%
Ascension – Mess With The Honk – 3.4%
Ascension – Gardenier – 3.4%
Biddenden – Kentish Kiss – 5%
Biddenden – Bushels – 6%

Food

Our meat is supplied by The Old Butcher’s Shop, Pett, our village butcher and joint organisers.
The pub kitchen will be offering a bespoke beer festival menu over the weekend.
See our Beer Festival Menu.

Friday 22^nd
Pub kitchen: 12 – 2:30_pm & 6 – 8:30_pm

Saturday 23^rd
Charity BBQ: 1 – 7_pm
Pub Kitchen: 12 – 2:30_pm & 6 – 8:30_pm

Sunday 24^th
Hog Roast: 2 – 7_pm
Pub Kitchen: 12 – 5_pm

Monday 25^th
Spacca Napoli Wood Fired Pizzas: 2:30 – 8_pm
Pub Kitchen: 12 – 2:30_pm

Live Music

Friday 22^nd
7_pm – The Pett Slip Buoys

Saturday 23^rd
2_pm – Stuart Bligh
5_pm – Admiral Finns Reloaded
8_pm – The Kytes

Sunday 24^th
1_pm – The Ragati String Band
4:30_pm – The Rockitmen

Monday 25^th
1_pm – Matty’s Monday Trio

Charity

Our charity for the event is Pett Level Independent Rescue Boat (Charity no. 286891).
The PLIRB is an entirely self funded life saving organisation operating in the Rye Bay area, run and crewed by volunteers.
The crew will be performing Sea Shanties as The Pett Slip Buoys on Friday evening and running the Charity BBQ on Saturday afternoon.
Please ask them questions about the great work they do and be sure to donate when you see their collection buckets.