Beer at last year’s prices – three cheers for Dewsbury ale fest!
By: JimOldfield
May 17th, 2012
It will be a home and away festival when Yorkshire’s Heavy Woollen District CAMRA branch opens its third Dewsbury and Heavy Woollen Beer and Cider Festival next Thursday (May 24)… with its prices pegged to last year’s levels! The event, inside Dewsbury Town Hall, will major on the best beers that Yorkshire has to offer Read the full post…
Knobworth unveiled
By: JimOldfield
May 16th, 2012
Forget Knebworth – there’s only one thing you can call your music and ale festival if you want to raise cash for testicular and prostate cancer… Enter the new KNOBWORTH Festival – which has just taken place at a country pub in Northamptonshire! The two-day event was hosted by The Angel Inn at Yarwell, near Read the full post…
Grunt ‘n’ groan in a country pub… and that’s BEFORE the morning after!
By: JimOldfield
May 15th, 2012
The locals of a Cheshire country inn are getting set for the biggest pub brawl in Britain – and a top family brewer has even created a special, limited-edition ale to commemorate it. But before the riot squad turns out, or Mr Osborne slaps another anti-alcohol duty on real ale brewers, it should be mentioned Read the full post…
Scrumpy pals take Surrey cider to GBBF
By: JimOldfield
May 9th, 2012
Surrey’s first-ever cider entry to CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival has come from two friends and back-yard brewers from Guildford. Martin Pollock, 37, and Pete O’Connor, 30, have been making cider in their back gardens for three years. They noticed a gap in the market for cider from Surrey, set up as Pete’s Pollocks – Read the full post…
To beer or not to beer – that is the CAMRA question!
By: JimOldfield
May 8th, 2012
Trade tickets are now on sale for this year’s CAMRA Great British Beer Festival in London – billed as “Britain’s Biggest Pub”. But is it? Certainly, the 55,000 expected customers are unlikely to be outdone by any other single establishment. But as for the ales, this year’s fest is about to have its pocket picked Read the full post…
Beer engines meet steam engines at northern ale festival
By: JimOldfield
May 1st, 2012
A weekend of glug-glug and chug-chug is coming to South Yorkshire as Barnsley CAMRA hosts its annual beer festival… at a steam-railway. The Elsecar Heritage Railway will swap steam engines for beer engines this Thursday (May 4) as 30-plus real ales – many of them festival specials – will be in full flow for four Read the full post…
IoM leads ale fest charge with complete sell-out
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
The Isle Of Man’s first beer festival went down a storm – with EVERY single beer, cider, perry and wine selling out on the third and final night (Saturday, April 14)! More than 60 real ales went up on sale – but by the Saturday morning, half had already sold out and organisers kept up Read the full post…
Cup Final ales at footy club’s fest
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
Footy club Stafford Rangers hosts its annual real ale festival on the May Bank Holiday weekend, from Friday-Sunday, May 4-6. Along with a range of 18 ales, seven ciders and a host of fruit wines, there will be live entertainment – including a live High Definition screening of the FA Cup Final on the Saturday. Read the full post…
500 good reasons Reading is heading for success…
By: JimOldfield
April 25th, 2012
A mind-boggling 500 real ales will stack the racks at this year’s huge Reading CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival, as the 18th incarnation of one of the country’s most extensive events of its kind prepares to get under way. The five-day festival runs from next Wednesday (May 2) until Sunday (May 6). Also on offer Read the full post…
‘Graveyard tour’ remembers Cambridge’s lost pubs
By: JimOldfield
April 20th, 2012
CAMRA members in Cambridge have embarked on an unusual “graveyard tour” – to visit every one of the city’s 23 pubs that has gone out of business in the past five years. In that time, a quarter of Cambridge’s pubs have been forced to call time on their businesses – and real ale lovers remembered Read the full post…
