Bungay Beer Festival's Bull of the Woods special brew

The Bull Of The Woods Brewery, based in Kirby Kane, near Bungay, has called its special brew for the annual festival, Dreadlock Holiday.

Co-brewery owner Seamus Clifford said: "As all my beers have a musical slant to their names and the festival is in aid of raising money for EACH and Bungay Cricket Club, I came up with the name Dreadlock Holiday.

"Because of the lyrics 'I don’t like cricket, oh no I love it', it made me think of tropical fruit-styled hops giving it that summery feel.

"We are very lucky to be in one of the best areas for growing malting barley in the world."

The Maltings Pavilion in Bungay is hosting the three-day event over the last bank holiday of May from the Friday to the Sunday.

This year's festival slogan, 'Bring your porter to the slaughter', is in light of the Beccles and Bungay Journal's revelation that Bungay is the Satanist epicentre of the United Kingdom (Image: Stuart Buck)

Last year the event was held in July attracting more than 1,000 visitors over the weekend with the beer barrels being drunk dry.

Last summer's event also raised more than £1,300 for the MIND charity and the organisers have new t-shirts for sale in aid of chosen charity EACH and also Bungay Cricket Club.

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The beer festival t-shirts will be sold at the event to raise money for East Anglian Children's Hospices (EACH) and the Bungay Cricket Club (Image: Stuart Buck)

Event organiser Stuart Buck said: "We've got three days of live music, DJ's, hot food, amazing real ales, a fully stocked licensed bar and even a children's entertainer this year.

"Festival t-shirts are for sale and for the first time we will also be presenting our special festival beer brewed by a local brewery, Bull of the Woods, using malt from Crisp Maltings.

"It's all undercover in marquees. so no excuses if it gets a bit cloudy.

"The event is totally run by volunteers to welcome you to what is a great event for Bungay."

Crisp Maltings, which provides the barley for the Bull of the Woods' beer, and Fen Farm Dairy are among a number of local businesses sponsoring the occasion.

But festival organiser Stuart Buck says this year's event will offer more live music, live DJs and a bigger selection of beers. (Image: Submitted)

The logo for the Bungay Beer and Music Festival 2023 (Image: Submitted)