Glastonbury Festival

Drink

The most important drink is water ! Make sure you drink enough liquid - it's essential for your health. Long waking hours, dancing and summer sun can increase your need.

Safe drinking water is available from the standpipes scattered around the site, and bottled water is available at many stalls. If you're using your hands to drink, wash them first. For information about the watersupply, see the Backstage area of the website.

Teas and coffees can start to add up to quite a lot of money over the Festival, so it can be worth noting which places are better value.
If you're bringing your own alcoholic drink, remember that amounts considered beyond reasonable personal use will be confiscated at the Gate. All glass bottles will also be confiscated - you can decant it first into plastics. And booze is heavy : you may have to carry it a long way from car/bus/train to your camp.

The beer tents are run by the Workers Beer Company. The prices are equivalent to top end London pub prices.
Cider is a feature of the Festival, being a local, er, delicacy. Look for the famous Somerset Cider Bus, and The Brothers Bar by the Jazzworld Stage.

Drugs/alcohol cocktails can be lethal. Please don't die.

Alcohol is more of a feature at the Festival these days compared to 15-20 years ago (Infoman remembers !) when perhaps other forms of drug-taking were not so well-policed. Unfortunately some drinkers don't know when they've had enough, and some succumb to peer pressure to drink stupidly. Pissed people can be very irksome ! If you think it's fun to get really pissed and to fight, please stay away from Glastonbury : it's not for you.

If you think your friends are becoming too pissed suggest getting some food and an alternative kind of drink. There are plenty to choose from. Don't play puerile macho drinking head-games : you'll all have a much better Festival if you avoid poisoning yourself with booze, and if no-one throws up in your tent or on you.

Drunk six pints? How long till you're safe to drive? The Answer: 12 Hours
Don't drive under the influence of drink or drugs when leaving the Festival. For more information visit www.brake.org.uk

Related Areas

News Stories

General Links

PlayLouder