Spa Sessions is a thoughtfully curated 1-day, two session beer festival taking place at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, on September 5th 2026. During the event you will have access to a line-up of beers from some of our favourite brewers in the UK. Alongside the beer we will have a selection of food trucks and outlets serving delicious food. The event is supporting 2 local charities – The National Star Centre and Cheltenham Samaritans.
Sessions
There will be 2 sessions:
Afternoon: 11:30-16:00 (last orders 15:30)
Evening: 17:30-22:00 (last orders 21:30)
Tickets
Tickets are available from the following link:
Spa Sessions at Pittville Pump Room – Tickets
Tickets are available at £15+booking fee.
VIPs
A limited number of VIP tickets will be available. These tickets will allow entry to the festival 30 minutes earlier and entry to an exclusive talk and tastings from some of the breweries. There will also be a VIP room with seating.
Fringe
As well as the festival, there will be some events in the area earlier in the week including Meet the Brewer and Tap Takeover Events. Keep an eye on here or the Gloucestershire Beer Week socials for more information.
Beer
Beer will be served in measures of 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 and full pint. Beer will be served in a branded cup (similar to those used at other festivals) that you can take away.
Getting There
Arrival on foot is recommended. Parking in the area is either time limited or residents only. The Pump Room is a 10 minute walk from Cheltenham High Street. Buses D & E from the railway station pass close to the Pump Room (final destination Bishop’s Cleve) – please check the Stagecoach website for details.
The Breweries
Each brewery will be sending people to sell you their beer. They will have a selection of their beers served fresh on tap throughout the day. Most of the breweries will also be taking part in fringe events, so keep an eye on the socials so you don’t miss out.
Emperor’s Brewery has a long history….mostly as a home brewery. Damian started his home brewing journey over 35 years ago. Making beer from kits as a poor student. The results were mostly terrible! In 2001 though, Emperor’s Brewery was really born after he constructed his first all-grain equipment by hand. The beers started getting a lot better. Over the years, the beers got darker and darker and stronger and stronger, until eventually friends encouraged him to start up Emperor’s Brewery commercially. That finally happened in 2017, brewing just 20 litres at a time on a Braumeister brewing system. These days, Emperor’s is cuckoo brewed in both the UK (at Bang The Elephant) and in Europe (at Dugges Brewery). All the beer produced is black and over 10%, so please drink responsibly…you are not a Jedi yet!
The announcement can be seen here.
A Bristol-based brewing company, with three premises across the city. They make a variety of styles from their two brewery sites based in Bristol, one at their taproom in St Philips, and one at their brewpub in the heart of the city.
Proudly a Founder, Employee and Community owned business. They are owned and operated by the people who work in and use their premises, and drink their beer. They have 1500 shareholders in their small company, with more than 80% of them having BS postcodes.🍺
Their announcement is here.
Vault City are delighted to bring their modern sours to Spa Sessions. We asked them to tell us about their operation:
“We’re Vault City, an independent craft brewery and Scotland’s largest sour beer producer. We make heavily fruited, modern sour beers in (sometimes) sunny Edinburgh. Since 2018, we’ve focussed on relentless exploration when it comes to brewing. Our house culture and mixed fermentation base beer pair perfectly with real fruit ingredients, and we use literally tonnes of the stuff in our recipes to help push the boundaries of what people would typically expect from a beer. We set out to modernise a traditional style of brewing with our take on fruited sours. Our modern sour beers have converted even the most stubborn non-beer and traditional beer drinkers, with a mix of accessible and adventurous flavours. Don’t take our word for it though, crack open a can and tell us what you think!”
Brewing small batches of hazy, hop-forward beers by the sea in Cornwall. Using fresh ingredients and Cornish water, Pipeline create craft beers that showcase the best of New World hops.
Expect big aromas, soft hazies, and that unmistakable Cornish charm.
Bang the Elephant started in 2017 brewing on a Grainfather. In 2019 they jumped at a chance to move into an old brewery in Nottinghamshire and haven’t looked back. They brew finely crafted small batch beers from classics to experimental brews – they love what they do.
Pretty Decent Beer Co was began in 2017 when Sarah and James Casey took out a small start-up loan after asking: “how much do you think it’d cost to start a brewery?” (Answer: quite a lot more than they thought, actually). Based in East London, the brewery was, for a time, officially London’s smallest commercial brewery making just 250 litres of beer a week sold through a railway arch bar in Forest Gate.
Today, Pretty Decent operates a much larger brewhouse supplying beer across the UK and beyond, and operating three London taprooms, but the focus is the same as day one – making great beer that’s approachable and inclusive, with branding and beer names that occasionally (hopefully!) make people laugh. Brewing modern, small-batch beers across a range of styles, the brewery releases 1–3 specials most weeks, with a soft spot for hazy NEIPAs, pale ales, and not-too-sour fruit sours.
Born in South Birmingham and built on hard graft, creativity and community. What started in an attic in Kings Heath has grown into the largest independent brewery in the West Midlands. We’re still owner-operated, still self-funded, and still grounded in our community.
Having met at university, founders Oli & Sam bonded over a shared love of pubs and the world of beer. Fed up with their corporate jobs after graduating, they set up Attic with a simple desire: to bring better beer to Birmingham.
Brewing our first beers in Sam’s attic with a brewery he built with his grandad, our early batches quickly became a hit with everyone we knew, and suddenly that little room felt too small. We knew the rest of Brum needed a taste too.
DEYA Brewing Company is an independent brewery in Cheltenham focusing on hoppy beers, lagers, traditional UK styles and mixed fermentation ales.
They strive to make world class beer. Their on-site Taproom is at the heart of our brewery and is open every week for fresh tins and delicious draft pours. They take a holistic approach to business, striving to be the best employer they possibly can be, while operating in a fair, sustainable and human driven way.
DEYA was founded by Theo. We started by brewing a few batches of Steady Rolling Man, our flagship beer at local breweries whilst we looked for a permanent site. For the first 6 months we focused almost exclusively on perfecting the recipe for SRM before moving onto other hoppy, east coast leaning beers….