We visit Leeds International Beer Festival at Kirkstall Abbey

An annual four-day festival, celebrating and promoting craft beer brewed in the UK and overseas, is taking place at Kirkstall Abbey

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00:00 I'm Dave, I'm here from White Locks, we're back here for the second year at Leeds International Beer Festival

00:05 at Kirk's Abbey, which is a beautiful place to have a beer festival.

00:08 Probably not many beer festivals have such a great setting as this.

00:12 Loads of different independent breweries and different bars here.

00:18 Not just beer, you've got ciders, cocktails, loads of great independent street food vendors

00:24 and it's a great weekend for it, the weather's brilliant, get yourselves down.

00:28 [crowd noise]

00:43 Hi, I'm John Kenny, co-founder of Kirk's Abbey Brewery and we helped put together the first ever

00:48 Leeds International Beer Festival with Darren and Maria from the council.

00:52 Unfortunately the travel was getting shut for a bit so we had to move out to Kirk's Abbey

00:57 and I say that like it's a bad thing but since we've been here it's been mind-blowing.

01:02 It's an absolutely beautiful setting.

01:05 Is there a good variety of beer and food here?

01:07 There's an incredible variety of beers and foods.

01:09 I think the variety of beer is incredible, the food as well, but to have it in this setting

01:14 is something that you won't get anywhere else.

01:16 And what will the weekend bring?

01:18 At the weekend, looking at the weather, we'll bring a lot of people.

01:21 We've got a lot of local breweries, just a really special feeling around the place.

01:29 [crowd noise]