About 40 fun and informative events will take place at venues right across Cheltenham and (for the first time this year) Gloucester at Cheltenham & Gloucester Beer Week.

The week runs from Friday, September 15th to Sunday, September 24th at about 20 venues.

Beer Week planning chair Leigh Norwood, of Favourite Beers, said: "This year sees some exciting, informative and fun events taking place as we welcome Gloucester to Beer Week.

"Beer Week is a showcase for our booming local brewing industry and our award-winning pubs, clubs and venues.

"Beer Week is a celebration of beer in all of its forms, styles and flavours; from cans and bottles, to cask and keg.

"It showcases beers from local producers to worldwide classic names; it's a chance for people to learn more about beer, meet the people who make it, try new things, discover new flavours and have great fun doing it."

Events include meet the brewer evenings, food and beer matching, tutored tastings of great Scandinavian and Belgian beers, themed beer quizzes, tap takeovers and talks from some of the best known writers and brewers in the UK.

Gloucester and Cheltenham breweries are once again planning to collaborate on a unique Beer Week brew. This year Gloucester, Hillside, Prescott, Deya and Velvet Owl are brewing a five per cent traditional, zesty and yeasty Saison beer. This will be available at Beer Week venues in bottle or keg formats.

A full colour programme is being produced for Beer Week 2017, and you will find it in pubs, clubs and other venues across Cheltenham and Gloucester.

It will feature all of the participating venues, with maps of Gloucester and Cheltenham venues and recommended 'Beer Trails'.

Keep in touch with the latest developments and events at www.cgbw.beer 

Picture caption: A Beer Week event taking place at the Deya Brewery in Cheltenham last year.