A BEER festival returns to the East Anglian Railway Museum next month.

The Chappel Winter Beer Festival is returning to the venue from Thursday, February 29, to Saturday, March 2, from 11am to 11pm each day.

Tickets must be purchased in advance from the Chappel Beer Festival website.

Admission times to the beer festival are divided into two bands each day, from 11am to 5.30pm and 5.30pm to 11pm.

General admission costs £20 while discounted tickets for CAMRA or East Anglian Railway Museum members are £15, provided a membership card is shown.

Tickets for residents of select postcodes - CO6 2DS, CO6 2DD, CO6 2DN, CO6 2DP, CO6 2DW, CO6 2DR, & CO6 2DP, comes to £15 but proof of residency must be provided.

Holders of a valid Greater Anglia season ticket to Chappel and Wakes Colne, Bures or Sudbury can also get a ticket for £15 and are advised to bring their ticket or Smartcard.

Entry tickets are dated and timed, and can only be used to enter in the time band and day shown on each ticket.

Customers who buy earlier tickets and enter before 5.30pm can stay at the event for as long as they like, up until closing time.

But the earlier tickets cannot be used to enter after 5.30pm.

A spokesman said: “Ticket prices include a starter pack consisting of admission, glass and £10 worth of beer/cider/wine vouchers.

“Following feedback from previous years, where people are attending more than one session and ending up with too many glasses, if you arrive with a Chappel Beer Festival glass and intend to use that glass ,we will issue you an extra £3 worth of beer tokens instead of a glass.”

Festival organiser Brendan Sothcott said: "It's smaller than the summer event - 70 beers plus. It’s three days this year - Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

“We’re taking beers from all of the East Anglia region - Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire."

Visit earm.co.uk/beer to book.