Winter Ales Festival 2026 (SOLD OUT)
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Winter Ales Fest is BACK for 2026!Enjoy a unique selection of brand new winter beers, from NZ's best small and micro scale brewers.
Winter Ales Fest 2026 will again be held at the amazing Whisky & Wood event space, conveniently located at 60 Cambridge Terrace (above Sweet Axe Throwing Co).
Winter Ales Fest is a small, cozy beer festival with only 120 tickets available per session. We'll be pouring 15-20 brand new wintery (and not so wintery) beers from small and very small brewers. This is a beer festival for beer geeks!
Confirmed 2026 Brewers (so far):
Brewaucracy
Cell Division
Craftwork
Duncan's
Field Below
Isthmus
Karamu Barrelworks
Liberty Brewing
Mata
Mean Doses
Nine Barnyard Owls
Peckham's
Shining Peak
Southstar Brewing Company
The Beer Engine
Wild and Woolly
Plus more to come!
WAF runs on a token system: $6 per token, each token gets you a half glass of any beer.
Want a full glass? That's two tokens (except for the really strong beers...)
Winter Ales Fest 2026 is run by an experienced team who has organised previous festivals such as Pacific Beer Expo, Funk on the Water and multiple SOBA Winter Ale festivals and Winter Ales Fest 2025.
Food provided by Déjà Vu Pizza (https://www.instagram.com/dejavupizzanz/)
Live folk music once again provided by Crossroads
Dates
Friday 26 June 2026 - Saturday 27 June 2026 (UTC+12)Location
Whisky & Wood
Level 1, 60 Cambridge Terrace, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
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Winter Ales Festival 2026 (SOLD OUT)
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