Saturday 21st October 2023
3.00pm
Beerwoolf!
On 21st October it’ll be the 218th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and we’ll be at Cerne Abbas Brewery to sing some songs which will commemorate the victory and the great deeds done. We also have a fine cargo of other songs to sing for you, many of which you can join in.
You may have seen us at this summer’s Féte (when we were the Men of Concern). Now we’re back with a new name and a full hold of new songs.
Come and join us at 3.00pm on 21st October in the Brewery. Aye Aye!
Come and enjoy great food, complimentry music (when advertised), exclusive company and of course amazing beers!
Check out our normal opening hours here.
Plus see below for some of the events we have for you in 2023
Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd September 2023
BARNSTOMPER FESTIVAL
It's Back!!!
Line up includes:
Skinny Lister
Blackwater County
Pronghorn
Plus... loads more!!!
We are soooo excited!
Tickets and more information available HERE
Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th August
CONVOY CABARET
Convoy Cabaret are back with The Naughty Corner '23 and this time at Cerne Abbas Brewery. Offering a three day summer festival in the South West! Running from Thursday to Sunday, 17th - 19th August, offering camping from midday Thursday to Midday Sunday. We will be totally spoilt with the best in live music and top DJ's, and into the later hours of the day with acoustic acts, aerial circus, performers, and sideshows.
Tickets Available HERE
Sunday 6th August 2023!!! 1.00pm
Scarecrow and Men of Cerne Choir
Have a chilled Sunday afternoon with great company to the sounds of the Men of Cerne Choir and Scarecrow.
Free Admission
Thursday 20th July- Saturday 22nd July 2023
ENDORSET 2023
You wait ages for the bus and then two come along! We go again.
Tickets Available HERE
Saturday 15th July 3pm 'til 6pm
THE JIM HAMMOND DUO
Jim Hammond is a true talent and presence on stage, whether he is schooling his piano like Jerry Lee Lewis or playing bottle neck slide on a varied and beautiful collection of vintage guitars...big gravely voice and tales of years on the road.
FREE!
No Ticket Required!
Friday 9th & Saturday 10th June
GIANT KILLERS
We are delighted to welcome back the Giant Killers for their 2nd year at the Brewery. Come and join the us for a
pre 75 traditional weekend for Custom Hotrods Bikes Vans Bug's Scooters.
Tickets available
HERE
Saturday 15th April
Gathering herbs for the Beltane Brew
and
Brewing the Beltane Brew
Brewery open as normal - free and no ticket required 12 noon until 6pm ish!
However! The herb walk where we gather the herbs for the Beltane Brew is part of the Cerne Abbas Giant Festival and will require tickets. Further information for times, location and tickets click
HERE
Saturday 13th April
Giant Festival Presents
Wild Brew! The Making of the Beltane Brew.
10am Gathering the Herbs for the Beltane Brew
Start: Lower Barton Farm, Nether Cerne DT2 7AJ
Morning inc. homemade nettle soup and roll £15.
All day (with brewing) £20 incl ½ pint
or
1.30-2.30pm Starting Off the Beltane Brew in the Brewhouse
£7.50 incl ½ pint
Taproom open as normal - free and no ticket required 12 noon until 6pm... ish
Buy your tickets
HERE
Saturday 6th May 2023
SKIMMITY HITCHERS
3pm -10pm
The Beltane Banger
The world famous Skimmity Hitchers megagroup will again be live at Cerne Abbas Brewery helping us celebrate Beltane proper.
Support acts:
CELL DIVISION
plus
DJ MABELIZER
who will play two sets 'Balearic Beats' in the Afternoon and 'Uplifting Bangers' post Skimmity Hitchers
Delicious food will be provided by Pappa Cheese's grills and smokers and we can wash it all down with loads of of beer and cider and wine and spirits and stuff.
Well behaved children and dogs on leads welcome.
Children under 14 years Free
May Day 2024
1st of May of Course!
Come and join us and the Wessex Morris at sunrise on the Cerne Giant.
We will be there sharing our Beltane Brew
(bring you own drinking vessel for us to fill!
Its an early one... you need to be heading up the Giant at 4.45am
Followed by dancing in the Square
and a short very optional service at
St Augustine's Well at approx. 7.30am.
We will see you there!
It's free you know - no ticket required... just you!
Friday 9th & Saturday 10th June
GIANT KILLERS
We are delighted to welcome back the Giant Killers for their 2nd year at the Brewery. Come and join the us for a
pre 75 traditional weekend for Custom Hotrods Bikes Vans Bug's Scooters.
Tickets available
HERE
Saturday 15th July 3pm 'til 6pm
THE JIM HAMMOND DUO
Jim Hammond is a true talent and presence on stage, whether he is schooling his piano like Jerry Lee Lewis or playing bottle neck slide on a varied and beautiful collection of vintage guitars...big gravely voice and tales of years on the road.
FREE!
No Ticket Required!
Thursday 20th July- Saturday 22nd July 2023
ENDORSET 2023
You wait ages for the bus and then two come along! We go again.
Tickets Available HERE
Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th August
CONVOY CABARET
Convoy Cabaret are back with The Naughty Corner '23 and this time at Cerne Abbas Brewery. Offering a three day summer festival in the South West! Running from Thursday to Sunday, 17th - 19th August, offering camping from midday Thursday to Midday Sunday. We will be totally spoilt with the best in live music and top DJ's, and into the late hours with acoustic acts, aerial circus, performers, and sideshows.
Tickets Available HERE
September
TBA
Events you may have missed during 2022 and before!
Saturday 10th December 2022
CHRISTMAS WREATH MAKING
Bringing evergreens into the home at yuletide is centuries old tradition. Wreath makers enjoyed a Christmas slice and mulled wine or cider whilst they wove good health, wealth and happiness into their hedgerow Christmas wreaths and discovered the symbolism of our native evergreens.
Saturday 17th December 2022
CHRISTMAS CHEER & BEER WITH FOOD TASTING & SAMPLING
This was a chance to choose your beers for Christmas, maybe a present for loved one... or just a present for someone who loves beer!
Festive food was also available from Papa Cheese’s Grill.
Saturday 3rd December 2022
OUR CHRISMAS BEER LAUNCH
We are proud to offer on public sale our Christmas beer, a modest 4.8% darker brew with a good malty backbone and a hint of floral hops to bring it all together. Very quaffable and not too chewy..
Jodie begrudgingly gave free samples at our launch... if you come and ask nicely he will probably oblige....
Saturday 29th October
Hallow's Eve 2022
We scary folk of Papa cheese and the Cerne Abbas Brewery had a right spooktackular halloween bash.
It was full a day of it with beer, banter, BBQ and bloody Mary’s and a vast array of ghoulish foods to tickle everyones taste buds, halloweiners and Devil eggs and even more fangtastic culinary delights.
We had some halloween related music on the decks as well as some bangin tunes to have a boo’gie to from our resident DJ. All finished off with apple bobbing, face painting, colouring in, puzzles and more!!
Did you miss it? See you there next year folks, You know the date!
2nd and 3rd September 2022
Last years Barnstomper was reviewed in the International Times....
'This really was a rather amazing event: Barnstomper 2021....Think: fiddles and banjos, punk, hops, malt, apples, jigs, pogo-ing and much more.... This was much akin to a large village fete, with camping, music and a really good bar, supplied with plenty of beers from the award-winning, Cerne Abbas Brewery (situated all of ten metres away), plus a nice range of ciders and wines. And, importantly, fair prices, smiling, friendly bar staff and lots of other, slightly bonkers festi-people to dance and fall-over with. That’s got to be a ‘result’, especially for the many festival-starved punters who came to party under the mystical spell of the phallic, Cerne Abbas Giant!'
Sunday 21st August 2022
Scarecrow and Men of Cerne Choir
We had a chilled sunday afternoon with great company to the sounds of the Men of Cerne Choir and Scarecrow
Saturday 13 August 2022
AUGTOBERFEST
Augtoberfest was celebrated with a top range of German beers and our Papa Cheese’s Smokehouse and Grill team who served up proper German Bratwurst.
Music was provided by:
Jessie, Kipper, Nick Parker & Ben Wain and our all time local heros Cell Division.
This was one of the last events at the brewery this summer before our end of summer bash with Barnstomper.
Prost!
Friday 22nd of July 2022
For One Night Only!
CHESNEY HAWKES
Chesney Hawkes played the barn stage at Cerne Abbas Brewery in aid of cancer treatment.
Full supporting line included:
THOMAS JULES (Rudimental) DJ set,
MABELLE(Cerne Abbas) DJ set
and local legends
THAT BRITPOP BAND
8th and 9th July 2022
ROSE LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE FLAMES!
Bands and acts that played to the best of crowds over the weekend were
PRONGHORN • THE MEMBERS
SUBGIANT • HEADMIX COLLECTIVE • SPORADICS
CURST SONS • MOTHER UKERS • SOME DOGS
GUNS OF NAVARONE • CONSUMMATE ROGUES
THEE MIGHTY SAINT PANCRAS • LUMP
CASH CONVERTED • DR BEATROOT
GRANT SHARKEY • THE SLOT BROTHERS
DJ DAPPER DAN • DJ KIRBY

Saturday 18th of June 2022
Summer Solstice with Cell Division
Legendary very local band performed a suberb free gig to celebrate Summer Solstice. Keeping it local.. Pappa Cheese kept everyone fed with his various grills and smokers.
Sunday 1st May 2022
May Day 2022 -The Beltane
The world famous Skimmity Hitchers megagroup played live at Cerne Abbas Brewery where we feasted on lots of delicious food from Pappa Cheese's grills and smokers washed down loads of of beer and cider and wine and spirits and stuff.
Those with sturdy dispositions joined us and Wessex Morris on the Cerne Giant for Sunrise for a tipple of our Beltane Brew, then finished off the day at the Brewery with a proper stompin afternoon with the Skimmity Hitchers, Wilson and Chris Davies
Saturday 4th December 2021
The Bridport Mummers performed and we feasted on Mr and Mrs. Cheeseman's winter goodness.... Jacket spuds, chilli, Gurt hot dogs and cheesey swine bites...
Did you miss the Mummers last year... We are sure they will be back later this year!
Saturday 16th October 2021
We enjoyed an atmospheric autumnal afternoon with Genaro's brilliant authentic wood fired Neapolitan Pizza's to the accompaniment of Jerry Bird - legend in the Dorset folk scene.
Magic!
Saturday 9th October 2021
we hosted
Who makes the most amazing seasonal street food made from the best Dorset produce, all served from a vintage Citroen Van all washed down to the accompaniment of Chris Kipper.
3rd and 4th September 2021
Was our amazing Barnstomper Festival
If you missed this years watch out for next years, tickets sell out in hours so... you have been warned!
