vegan beer fest

Three weeks until LVBF

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With just three weeks to go until the 6th annual London Vegan Beer Fest, I wanted to drop by and give you an update on what is happening on Saturday July 14, 2018.

London Vegan Beer Fest is taking over Hackney Downs Showroom, Hackney Downs Studios and TEMPLE GOODS cafe for one hell of a party.

Some of the attractions include:

  • MASSIVE indoor beer hall hosted by superstar brewery Brass Castle
  • Outdoor food and beer market featuring some of the best vegan street food in London and breweries from all over the UK
  • Indoor food and beer hall run by Temple of Seitan
  • Sponsor Follow Your Heart sampling products
  • Karaoke performance room
  • Face painting (yes, for adults!)

This is going to be a party you don’t want to miss.

We are currently selling early bird tickets for just £5 plus booking fee. If we have space on the day, tickets will be £9. Almost 50% of tickets have already gone, so be quick.

Click here to book now and RSVP to the Facebook event page.

Vegan Beer Fest UK t-shirts with free shipping

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Even if you aren’t attending any of the Vegan Beer Fest UK events during summer 2018, you might still like to own the t-shirt.

Each city has a white and black version of the design and for a limited time you can pay ZERO for shipping.

Yes, that’s right. Order online before midnight on Monday May 7th, 2018 and you don’t pay shipping.

These exclusive t-shirts are only available online in 2018. We will not be selling them at the events. Click here to pick your size and take advantage of this free shipping offer.

You can also buy early bird tickets for London, Glasgow, Coventry and Sheffield online now.

Vegan Beer Fest shirts

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Now this is exciting!

Vegan Beer Fest UK events are coming up soon with dates in London, Coventry, Glasgow and Sheffield across the summer.

Each year we make a t-shirt for punters to buy on the day but in 2018 we have switched things up a bit.

You can now buy a unique t-shirt for each of the cities and you can only buy them online!

Each city has a white text on black as well as a black text on white variety from which to choose.

Even if you can’t make it along to a date, your purchase will help us put these events on and pay our official designer some extra income.

We are partnering with TeeMill to bring ethically responsible shirts to you this year. Each year we were left with many unsold shirts so allowing each customer to order exactly what they want will help us cut down on waste, as well as keeping our production, storage and transportation costs down.

Click here to see all the designs now and ORDER!

Keep looking for more merchandise coming soon.

Order your Vegan Beer Fest UK tickets online now.

Amazing vegan menu in Glasgow

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If you haven’t visited Glasgow lately, you are seriously missing out on a vibrant vegan food scene. If you are a Glaswegian, you don’t need any convincing about how good you’ve got it.

To take an already fabulous situation and make it better, the kitchen of Mono Cafe Bar has created an outstanding outdoor BBQ menu and an indoor bar menu for Glasgow Vegan Beer Fest this Sunday (August 27, 2017).

If you can’t make it along this weekend, marvel at the food line up anyway and find a date in the near future to visit this legendary food, drink and live music venue.

Here’s the Mono menu for Sunday:

BBQ

  • Blackbean burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, dill pickle, bbq sauce and mustard
    OR with jerk jackfruit, feta and scotch bonnet sauce
    OR with spicy peanut sauce, fennel slaw and pickled cucumber
  • Haggis burger with lettuce, tomato, onion and beetroot and horseradish relish
  • Hotdog with fried onions
  • Chilli cheese dog
  • Hotdog with sauerkraut and mustard
  • Mac n cheese

Handheld/street food menu at the inside bar

  • Jerk jackfruit, coconut and blackbean burrito
  • Roast beef style seitan, caramelized onion, mustard mayo and rocket sub
    (Seitan roasted in silkie stout gravy)
  • Tinga quesadilla with a guacamole dip
    (Cooked with magic rock)
  • Falafel box. Falafel, chips and sauerkraut with yoghurt tahini sauce
  • Pizza Margherita
    Especiale, margherita with cream cheese, plum tomato and basil
    Puttanesca, ragu, cheese, sundried tomato, olives, capers, chilli and basil. Topped with courgetti
    Spicy sausage,ragu, with cider braised leeks, artichoke and jalapenos
    (gluten free pizza available)
  • Potato and rosemary flatbread with ragu, capers, onion and rocket
  • Mini mac n cheese
  • Sausage supper, beer battered sausages,chips and pickle
  • To-fish supper, beer battered tofu,chips and tartare sauce
  • Pizza crunch. beer battered pizza slice, chips and pickle
  • Handcut chips
  • Cajun spiced chips
  • Poutine. Handcut chips, new world odyessy gravy, and cheese

I’m actually giggling and clapping my hands at that incredible menu.

On top of this there will also be food stands by Kind Crusts (selling donuts), Cool Jerk Vegan Pies and Red Rosa’s Specialist Cakery.

You can buy cheap online tickets for Glasgow Vegan Beer Fest online now for just £4 plus small booking fee. If we have space on the day, tickets on the door will be £7.

Highlights from Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest

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Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest was epic yesterday. Actually, it was beyond epic.

Hundreds of revellers descended on Yellow Arch Studios for the first-ever vegan beer event in the city and it was the party to end all parties.

Beer flowed non-stop all day thanks to Bad Seed, Chorlton Brewing Co, Heavy Industry and The Beer Engine. Drinkers were treated to everything from a 10.5% stout to an impossibly easy drinking rose petal and hibiscus creation.

The food was as loved and adored as the beer. V-REV, Make No Bones, Sgaia and Truffle Pig all had a bumper day selling their delicious offerings.

I would like to offer up my heartfelt thanks to everyone who came along to the event. It might very well be the friendliest event that I have ever hosted. Huge love goes to the staff of the venue for keeping everything running smoothly. Thanks to our sponsors Follow Your Heart for unwavering and crucial support.

And, as always, my eternal gratitude and love to my partner Josh for doing hours and hours of behind the scenes work as well as running the door AND finding time to hit the karaoke stage. I wouldn’t and couldn’t do this without you.

Follow Vegan Beer Fest UK on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Next stop? Glasgow!

Let’s check out these photo highlights!

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Karaoke is on fire at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest at @yellowarchstudios right now. #vegan #svbf17

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Alberto from @sgaiaveganmeats cooking up a #vegan storm at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #svbf17

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Look at this #vegan bacon and egg pretzel from @sgaiaveganmeats #svbf17

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Come the fuck on! #Vegan charcuterie board by @sgaiaveganmeats at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #svbf17

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Happy people everywhere at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest! #vegan #svbf17 #sheffield

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The fab @moocylu from @teenvgn is posing in front of our photo wall at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #vegan #svbf17

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All the FABULOUS people are at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #vegan #svbf17

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@fatgayvegan thanks for putting on a great event we had a blast! #sheffield #svbf17 #vegan #beer

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Lauren from @mnbvegan with Lemmy at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #vegan #svbf17

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People AND dogs are having a great time at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #svbf17 #vegan

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People are having an amazing day at Sheffield Vegan Beer Fest. #svbf17 #vegan

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Food at London Vegan Beer Fest

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The 4th annual London Vegan Beer Fest is racing closer and closer.

For many people, the main attraction is of course the wide range of beers available (list coming soon!) while others take the opportunity to catch up with old friends or even make new ones.

In 2016, I predict a brand new typer of punter at the event. The foodie.

Check out the INCREDIBLE menu that will be served on the day, tell me what you are most looking forward to at the event and buy your cheap online tickets here.

rainbow potato

First up is the extremely irresistible Rainbow Potato stand.

Everything is not only 100% vegan on the mini-deli showcase, it is also 100% gluten-free. You will be able to build your perfect meal by choosing from the options below:

Choose 1 of the following: Baked sweet potato – Pink fir potato – Maris Piper potato

Add 1 of the following: Guacamole – Traditional hummus with extra virgin olive oil – Ranch dressing by Follow Your Heart – Sriracha Vegenaise by Follow Your Heart – Extra virgin olive oil with salt & pepper

Choose a further 4 toppings: Spiced sweetcorn salad (with mango, chilli, coriander & pomegranate) – Spiralised courgettini (with mint, lime, cashew crush & red quinoa) – Beetroot (with basil, balsamic & black quinoa) – Spicy smashed cauliflower (with chickpea, chive & coconut cream) – Zingy ginger carrot salad (with rose petal harissa & pistachio nuts) – Roasted peppers (with garlic, fresh oregano & extra virgin olive oil) – Mozzarella shreds by Follow Your Heart – Cheddar shreds by Follow Your Heart

karma wrap

Next we have Karma Wrap. This stand will be serving warm rolled flour tortilla crammed with delicious ingredients.

Choices?

The Naughty Falafeller – homemade falafel, pickled cucumbers & carrots, hummus, marinated white cabbage, fresh mint, parsley and chilli.

Holy Moley Guacamole – braised black beans, Cheddar shreds by Follow Your Heart, jalapeño, plum vine tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, lime, tortilla chips, spicy guacamole, organic sprouts and red quinoa.

Brunch O’Clock – hot sausage, scrambled VeganEgg by Follow Your Heart, hash brown potato, chestnut mushrooms and brown sauce.

Marrakesh Sesh – roasted aubergines & peppers, garlic, cous cous, hummus, coriander spinach, pickled beets and Mozzarella shreds by Follow Your Heart.

burger bar

You can’t not have a Burger Bar at a beer festival, right?!

Check out the varieties on offer:

Mock duck burger – Royal kombu seaweed pesto, organic sprouts and Chinese cabbage

Smoked tofu burger – Cashew cream, ginger garlic, chilli, fresh coriander and rocket

Falafel burger – Hummus, fresh mint, baby gem lettuce, pickled carrot, sliced plum tomato

Beetroot and quinoa burger – Pickled cucumber, ranch dressing, baby mixed leaves and Cheddar shreds by Follow Your Heart

guilty pleasures

Imagine an FGV event without sweet treats? Yeah, right!

The Guilty Pleasures stand will be home to a stunning chocolate, sweet potato and date brownie as well as an amazing array of cupcakes and sorbets.

fruit stall

Last but not least, we have the Fruit Stall. This is where you will pick up Fruit Kebabs, Chilli roasted pineapple with Duppy Share Rum plus Strawberries with coconut cream.

Wow.

If you were at London Vegan Beer Fest last year, I’m sure you’ll agree this year’s food line up is a vast improvement on our set up in 2015. We now have multiple food stands, professional chefs who are used to cooking huge quantities of fresh food and a pub kitchen that is quickly becoming one of the most vegan-friendly in London.

In addition to all these wonderful vegan food stands outside, the entire pub is turning vegan for the day meaning attendees can order food inside or outside The Old Ship W6 safe in the knowledge that it is all plant-based.

Fine food, cold beer, wine, cider, live music, outdoor setting, beer info talks, river views, pet-friendly, family-friendly, gluten free options for food and drink…. I could go on and on.

Online tickets are just £5 plus 50p booking fee. Click here to book.

Tickets on the day will be £8.

You can RSVP and invite friends over on the Facebook event page.

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Love Like Hate

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London Vegan Beer Fest is rapidly approaching and plans are well underway. Super cool breweries are locked in, the 100% vegan BBQ menu is being devised and early bird tickets are flying out the door.

It is all terribly exciting, I’m sure you will agree. But hold onto your sun hats because that’s not all.

London Vegan Beer Fest is giving you music.

I am thrilled to have just confirmed Australian band Love Like Hate as performers at this year’s event.

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Brisbane-based (FGV’s hometown!) band Love Like Hate are a duo combining post punk electric guitars with free form piano melodies to create a sound described as dark pop. Currently touring Europe on the release of their single Electric Ships from the upcoming second EP, Heather and Sonja have made special arrangements to be part of the biggest vegan party of the year.

Check out the music video for their fab song Electric Ships below then buy your super cheap London Vegan Beer Fest early bird tickets now.

Beer, food, summer and music. We all win.

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Ticket info

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Can you believe it has been almost a year since London Vegan Beer Fest first stormed into our lives? What an event!

Beer was guzzled. BBQ food was devoured. Merchandise was snapped up. Karaoke classics were gloriously murdered. We certainly had a lot of fun and now it is time to do it all over again.

LVBF Logo 2014 550pxFat Gay Vegan (that’s me) is thrilled to present London Vegan Beer Fest 2014.

When I decided to put this event together, it was difficult to imagine getting through the first year but now here I am ready to celebrate the second edition in 2014.

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