Calling all beer lovers and craft connoisseurs, a special craft beer event is coming to London this month that you won’t want to miss. Notting Hill’s beloved neighbourhood pub, the Mall Tavern, is bringing back its Liquid Dreams beer festival for 2026. And they’re going bigger than ever before – with over 100 beers from over 50 independent breweries from around the world.
Running across three 5-hour sessions on February 27-28, Liquid Dreams is the Mall Tavern’s chance to “[champion] the very best of independent brewing across the world and in the UK.” And they’re doing it in the best way possible – by letting you drink as much of it as you want! Each ticket to the festival gets attendees unlimited access to the beers. It’s one price, one ticket, one glass, and as much beer as you fancy.
Pouring at the Liquid Dreams beer festival
The festival organisers haven’t just grabbed random beer from anyone and everyone for this festival. They’ve sourced sudsy sips from some of the country’s and the globe’s best breweries. Among them are the likes of hop-forward beers from Sureshot, Beak Brewery, and Baron, as well as big, bold stouts from Empire Brewing, and boundary-pushing beers from the likes of Vault City (Edinburgh) and Nerd Brewing (Sweden).
Other top-tier breweries to keep an eye out for at the festival include
- Deya (Cheltenham)
- FLOC (Canterbury)
- The Kernel (London)
- Beretta Brewing (Rome, Italy)
- CoolHead Brew (Helsinki, Finland)
- PINTA Barrel (Wieprz, Poland)
- Omnipollo (Stockholm, Sweden)
- To Øl (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Fonta Flora Brewery (Morganton, North Carolina, USA)
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This year’s Liquid Dreams festival will also feature a bigger Belgium Beers room, and the new ‘Czech beer’ room for lager lovers.
Beer festival tickets
Now, a ticket for this event isn’t necessarily cheap. Each one costs £60. But that ticket grants you access to all of the beer, to sip and taste as widely as you can within the five-hour session. Not only are you getting the chance to try beers that might otherwise never be served in the UK, such as rare US craft beers, but you also get to try as many as you can!
In past years, some beer festivals around the country have moved away from all-inclusive tickets. To entice people who baulked at the higher up-front ticket price, they dropped the price and moved to a purchase-based system. Guests would get entry, a glass, and one or two free beers included. Further beers that they wanted to sample would have to be purchased or traded for tokens.
At these events, you would still pay less than you would expect to in a pub or bar. And part of the joy is the proximity to SO MANY world-class beers and breweries. This ticketing solution also allowed people who were perhaps less keen to drink everything to still want to attend.
Image: @malltavern, via IG
But the all-inclusive beer festival approach remains the favourite of many beer fest enthusiasts. It’s far less likely that after a few drinks we’ll end up spending more than expected if all the drinks are already paid for up-front!
The Liquid Dreams beer festival: “One ticket. One glass. Everything included”. It’s the stuff that Liquid Dreams are made of.
Find out more and grab your ticket here.
📍 The Mall Tavern, 71 Palace Gardens Terrace, W84RU. The nearest station is Notting Hill Gate.