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Favourite Beers Gloucestershire's Largest Specialist Craft Beer, Real Ale + Cider shop. We also have on-license an

Favourite Beers opened on Friday 8th October 2010 as the only specialist Beer and Cider outlet in Gloucestershire. It has quickly established itself as the regional centre for beer and cider lovers from a much larger region. Their recent installation of ten craft keg taps and regular Friday Evening beer clubs has seen it also become one of the trendiest places to drink in the area. This is a family business, which has been run since they opened by Leigh Norwood and his daughter Rosie Ferner - Rosie is taking over the reins in 2021 although Leigh will still be around. Both are passionate about the products they sell and are keen to spread the word (and the taste) of the excellent beers, ciders, wines and meads that are now available from a host of breweries and producers up and down the country. Favourite Beers has an ever changing range of over 500 UK craft and traditional beers, a large range of international beers featuring over 120 from Belgium and an expanding range of excellent German, US and other European beers. We also carry a range of local ciders, English wines and meads. The range of UK beers permanently features a growing number from breweries within the local region and this is supplemented by an ever changing selection from around the country. Their beers are available to buy individually or in bulk and they also have a number of gift package options (ideal for presents – as are their Gift vouchers). Over the years they have regularly hosted a multitude of in-store events including ‘Tutored Tasting Evenings’ and ‘Meet The Brewer’ events. Please support us – this sort of specialist business will only survive if people make use of it. By supporting us, you are also supporting the local brewing industry. Tell your friends, spread the word and enjoy your beers and ciders.

🍯 New Mead 🍯 Mead lovers, the good news is our mead section has finally had a full restock of delicious Lyme Bay Winery ...
22/10/2026

🍯 New Mead 🍯

Mead lovers, the good news is our mead section has finally had a full restock of delicious Lyme Bay Winery Meads - including the Christmas Mead!

The even better news, we’ve got something new from them to try too - their new flavoured Sparkling Meads!

• Strawberry & Elderflower Mead
• Raspberry Lemonade Mead

🍺 New B**r 🍺 Kicking off the new week with a delicious delivery of goodies from Pretty Decent B**r Co.! • La Duck - 5% -...
21/10/2026

🍺 New B**r 🍺

Kicking off the new week with a delicious delivery of goodies from Pretty Decent B**r Co.!

• La Duck - 5% - Pale
• Le Duck - 5% - Pale
• Les Duck - 6.5% - NEIPA
• Used Floss Collection - 5% - Pale
• The Complete History of Floss - 7% - NEIPA
• The Mouse on Haunted Hill - 5% - Pale

🍻 Saturday 🍻 First of all, a massive thank you to Green around the Gills for joining us for Friday B**r Club last night ...
17/10/2026

🍻 Saturday 🍻

First of all, a massive thank you to Green around the Gills for joining us for Friday B**r Club last night and entertaining our customers. There was definitely a lot of toe tapping and clapping around the shop!

New b**rs this week from Vault City Brewing and the Brew York Christmas b**rs are here.

Preorders for advent calendars are now open and over half of the tickets for our Polish food & drink evening next month are sold, so if you wanted to come along, make sure you get your tickets quickly!

Open until 7pm 🍻

🎄🍻 B**R ADVENT CALENDARS ARE BACK! 🍻🎄Forget boring chocolate advent calendars… 24 days of delicious b**r sounds MUCH bet...
16/10/2026

🎄🍻 B**R ADVENT CALENDARS ARE BACK! 🍻🎄

Forget boring chocolate advent calendars… 24 days of delicious b**r sounds MUCH better to us! 😏🍺

Our Favourite B**rs Advent Calendars are now available to PREORDER! 🎅🎁

What makes ours so special? Well, unlike your average b**r advent calendar, NO TWO ARE THE SAME! 🤩

That’s right! Every single calendar is personalised to YOUR taste!

🍺 Love a big juicy IPA? We’ve got you!

🍺 Prefer a dark, rich stout? No problem!

🍺 Can’t stand sours? We won’t make you suffer!

🍺 Like a bit of everything? Leave it to us!

Simply tell us what you LOVE (or what you’d rather avoid!), and we’ll handpick 24 delicious b**rs just for you.

That’s 24 days of b**r you’ll actually WANT to drink, rather than finding a few questionable ones lurking at the back of the fridge until Easter! 😂

🎁 Perfect as a gift for your favourite b**r lover… or just treat yourself. We won’t judge!

🎄 PREORDERS ARE NOW OPEN! 🎄

Pop into the shop or send us a message to order yours and let us work our b**ry Christmas magic!

🎄 New B**r 🎄 Now our Birthday is over, we have given ourselves permission to now mention the C word as the first of the ...
16/10/2026

🎄 New B**r 🎄

Now our Birthday is over, we have given ourselves permission to now mention the C word as the first of the CHRISTMAS b**rs have arrived!

The much loved Brew York 2026 editions have arrived.

• Fairytale of Brew York - 4.9% - Chocolate Coconut & Marshmallow Snowball Milk Stout
• Dreams of Brew York - 5.5% - Lemon & Raspberry Posset Tart Pastry Sour
• Nightmare of Brew York - 7.5% - Walnut Whip Imperial Milk Stout

🍻KEG BAR🍻 Friday B**r Club Keg Line Up! Tap 1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DEYA Brewery - Steady Rolling Man - Hazy PaleTap 2 🇵🇱 FUNKY FLUID ...
16/10/2026

🍻KEG BAR🍻

Friday B**r Club Keg Line Up!

Tap 1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DEYA Brewery - Steady Rolling Man - Hazy Pale
Tap 2 🇵🇱 FUNKY FLUID - Gelato: Mousse De Maracuja - Ice Cream Sour
Tap 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Left Handed Giant - Pink Lemonade Radler - Radler
Tap 4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Left Handed Giant / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gloucestershire B**r Week - Expected Tempo - IPA
Tap 5 🇳🇴 **r - Rackhouse: Piece of Cake - BA Imperial Pastry Stout
Tap 6 🇨🇦 Bellwoods Brewery - Cat Lady - IPA
Tap 7 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tartarus B**rs - Pilou - GF Hazy Pale
Tap 8 🇧🇪 Trappistes_Rochefort - Triple Extra - Belgian Triple
Tap 9 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pretty Decent B**r Co. - Business with Porpoise - NEIPA
Tap 10 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Red Fin C***r - Fresh Apple - C***r
Tap 11 🇩🇪 Ayinger Privatbrauerei - Kellerbier - German L***r

Open until 9:30pm 🍻

🍺 New B**r 🍺 It’s that time again, for some more delicious new b**rs from Vault City Brewing! This week with 3 incredibl...
14/10/2026

🍺 New B**r 🍺

It’s that time again, for some more delicious new b**rs from Vault City Brewing! This week with 3 incredible collaborations.

• Tarte Aux Fraise - 4.7% - Strawberry Tart Sour collab with Fauve Craft Bière
• STOOPID: Jus De Mort - 5.8% - Smoothie Sour collab with Messorem
• Péché Mignon - 5.4% - Smoothie Sour collab with Brasserie du Bas-Canada

🇵🇱🍻 POLISH FOOD & DRINK EVENING AT FAVOURITE B**RS! 🇵🇱🥟Well, it’s only taken us OVER FIVE YEARS of talking about it, but...
12/10/2026

🇵🇱🍻 POLISH FOOD & DRINK EVENING AT FAVOURITE B**RS! 🇵🇱🥟

Well, it’s only taken us OVER FIVE YEARS of talking about it, but we’ve finally stopped saying “we really should do a Polish night” and actually organised one! 😂🎉

And trust us, it’s going to be worth the wait!

Join us for an evening of delicious traditional Polish food, plenty of Polish b**r, a little vodka (okay, maybe more than a little 👀) and some proper Polish hospitality!

🥟 WHAT’S ON THE MENU?

We’ll be putting together a proper Polish feast, including:
🌭 Kielbasa (Polish sausages)
🥟 Pierogi (Polish dumplings)
🥗 A selection of traditional Polish salads
🥩 Cold meat platters
🇵🇱 And some other Polish goodies!

🍺 AND THE DRINKS?

We’ll be treating you to some Polish b**r and vodka tasting, giving you the chance to discover some fantastic Polish drinks. Additional Polish b**rs and vodkas will also be available to purchase throughout the evening (as well as all our other b**rs)!

📅 Saturday 21st November
⏰ 7:30pm start
📍 Favourite B**rs, Cheltenham
🎟️ £40 per person – including your Polish feast and drinks tasting!

🚨 TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 14TH OCTOBER! 🚨

Tickets will be available in-store from opening time (11am).

As this is a sit-down evening, spaces are VERY limited, and once they’re gone, they’re gone! So we’d strongly recommend getting yourselves down to the shop sooner rather than later to secure your seats.

We’ve had five years to plan it… you’ve only got a few weeks to prepare your stomachs! 😂🇵🇱

Na zdrowie! 🍻🥟

🍻 Saturday 🍻 Our 16th Birthday celebrations continue today! Luckily, not all the cake got eaten so there is some on the ...
10/10/2026

🍻 Saturday 🍻

Our 16th Birthday celebrations continue today! Luckily, not all the cake got eaten so there is some on the bar today (sausage rolls did run out though, sorry).

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our 16th Birthday B**r Club last night. It was fantastic to see so many of you celebrating with us and making it such a busy, brilliant evening!

We’re sorry to those who wanted to pop in but couldn’t get a seat — we honestly didn’t expect it to be quite so busy! ❤️

16 years in, and we’re still so lucky to have such an amazing community of b**r lovers behind us. Here’s to many more! 🍺🎂

Cheltenham Town Football Club at home today, so why not join for a pre/post match pint.

Open until 7pm 🍻

🍺 New B**r 🍺 Stout season is upon us, so we’ve got this strong indulgent one from Brew York to warm us up! • Velvet Star...
09/10/2026

🍺 New B**r 🍺

Stout season is upon us, so we’ve got this strong indulgent one from Brew York to warm us up!

• Velvet Starfall - 11% - Pasteis De Nata Imperial Stout

Address

105 Hewlett Road
Cheltenham
GL526BB

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 9:30pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm

Telephone

01242 220485

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