The Ivy House Beer Fest 2026

The Ivy House Beer Fest is back and bigger than ever next weekend (May 15-17) with 40+ guest beers & ciders (listed below), plus three days of totally free live music.

Ivy House Beer Fest at The Ivy House, London’s first community owned pub, has quickly become a springtime staple of the Nunhead / Peckham community.

This year’s music lineup features, on Friday 15th May, London’s greatest showman Matthew Ryan Thomas, whose commitment to dizzying showmanship and the suspension of one’s disbelief is what makes the invitation to his ‘wee world’ all the more enticing. He’s joined by indie-pop royalty Garden Centre - the project of songwriter Max Levy who plumbs surreal meaning from life’s peculiarities and regularities, and will be joined by his full band (featuring members of Porridge Radio & The Tubs), plus Animal Soup, who marry the arch posturing of contemporary indie and the spirit of 90s alt rock, with the trash and camp of y2k poptimism, and the harmonic language of música popular brasileira. 

On Saturday 16th May we welcome Steely Dan 2, a 9-piece love letter to our favourite yacht rock heroes. Enmeshed by an enduring infatuation with the eclectic and timeless grooves of Steely Dan, this motley hive-mind of intrepid musicians will blast through the sharpest avenue of the discography. They have promised us The Hits. They follow Sinatra... Lives! - A Tribute to Frank Sinatra which features many of The Ivy House’s favourites faces, past and present. This will be very, very special. 

Earlier in the day we are joined by some of South London’s most exciting and crucial young voices; melodic-punk-two-piece Scrounge, whirling post-punk quintet Flytrap, plus the euphoric bedroom pop of tall child and the introspective emo of Free Lunch. 

Beer Fest wraps up on Sunday May 17th with New Orleans (by way of Nunhead) jazz outfit Doolally Tap, whose monthly Sunday slots here have become stuff of local legend. They’re followed by a Bring-Your-Own-Vinyl Open Decks wherein the audience take over our soundsystem for the evening. Time to dust off the deep cuts.

All the while we’ll be serving up delicious pints from an elite, hand-picked selection, curated by our bar team, including several vegan and gluten-free options. We’ll have beers and ciders from:

Holy Goat

Fierce

Orbit

Bluntrock Brewery

Tartaurus Beers

Pretty Decent

Saint Monday

Kernel

Villages

Lefebvre

Duvel Moortgat

TEGERNSEE

Verdant

Good Chemisty

Jiddlers Tipple

Northern Monk

Black Lodge

Goodh Brewing Co

Queer Brewing

Brewgooder

Pilot

Vault

Pressure Drop

Black Iris

BrewBoard

Full Circle

Brewing Brothers

Dunkletons

Hackney Church Brew Co

Flowerhorn

Nightingale Cider Company

Track

Ampersand

Howling Hops

Buxton

Left Handed Giant

WHERE WE ARE:

The Ivy House is located at 40 Stuart Road, London, SE15 3BE Only five minutes walk from Peckham Rye Park The Ivy House is accessible via: Bus: 484 (Lewisham/Camberwell) or 343 (New Cross Gate/Aldgate) or P12 (Brockley Rise/Surrey Quays) Train: Nunhead (20 min walk) Peckham Rye (26 mins walk) Bike: There are bike racks out front of the pub if you choose to cycle, however, space is limited. Further travel information can be found via TFL and Citymapper.