Award-winning craft brewery and social enterprise Tap Social Movement is hosting its second-annual Change is Brewing Beer Fest.
It will take place on Saturday at the Tap Social Taproom in the Curtis Industrial Estate in West Oxford.
This follows the sell-out success of the inaugural festival last year.
Change is Brewing 2023 features 13 leading independent craft breweries from around the UK pouring everything from hazy DIPAs and pastry sours to crisp lagers and everything in between.
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Brewery spokesman Brian Spencer said: "There will also be a full bar, curated non-alcoholic beers and soft drinks, baked goods and hand-stretched sourdough pizza from Proof Social Bakehouse and music from the Brewers Night Off DJs and more.
Tap Social is welcoming the following breweries to Oxford, some of them for the first time:
- Attic Brew Co (Birmingham)
- GlassHouse Beer (Birmingham)
- Goodh Brewing Co (Cornwall)
- Verdant Brewing (Cornwall)
- Beak Brewing (Lewes)
- Drop Project (London)
- Howling Hops (London)
- Orbit Beers (London)
- Pretty Decent Beer Co (London)
- Cloudwater Brew Co (Manchester)
- Tap Social Movement (Oxford)
- Phantom Brewing (Reading)
- Elusive Brew (Wokingham)
Tickets are £15 and include an exclusive festival glass, 10 per cent discount on Tap Social’s webshop in August, and more.
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The craft brewery also runs The White House by Tap Social on the Abingdon Road, and The Market Tap by Tap Social at the Covered Market.
The Market Tap opened in May and is one of several traders that are taking part in the historic market’s new extended evening hours on Thursday to Saturday until 11pm.
The new hours will be trialled over the next 12 months by Tap Social and a number of other market traders and the city council - the market landlord - is hoping other businesses agree to join in.
The Market Tap is open from 10am to 11pm from Thursday to Saturday and from 10am to 5pm from Sunday to Wednesday.
Co-founder of Tap Social Amy Taylor said earlier: "The pandemic delayed this project - during that time we opened The White House by Tap Social and that now has a good community around it.
"We are really excited to be opening here at the Covered Market at a time when later opening hours are being introduced.
"We are looking forward to hosting live music and other arts projects and working with other traders."
Tap Social offers employment and training to people who are serving prison sentences or have recently been released.
For more information and tickets visit here: www.wegottickets.com/f/13126
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