Ale, food and cocktail trails come to Huddersfield fest
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
Not one, but THREE, food and drink trails are being launched in West Yorkshire, to celebrate the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival in August. Real ale and local grub will be joined by six venues serving cocktails, when a cocktail trail starts on July 21. James Bond types will be able to collect a stamp Read the full post…
CAMRA Beer Olympics 2012… the winners!
By: JimOldfield
June 27th, 2012
The Trawlerboys of Lowestoft’s Green Jack Brewery netted silver at the CAMRA Beer Olympics, with their best bitter coming in just behind Coniston’s No 9 Barley Wine, as the runner-up in the Champion Beer of Britain (CBOB) contest this afternoon. Trawlerboys is a 4.6 per cent ale, described as “a rich, malty and fruity copper-coloured Read the full post…
Stand by for Festival Fever… that lasts three months!
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
While most British beer festivals last up to three days, hardened drinkers in the Steel City can brace themselves for one that lasts… three MONTHS! Sheffield pubs The Harley and The Wick at Both Ends have launched the Twisted Beer Festival which started last week and runs until September 16. They are serving bottled beers 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…
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…
Brewer’s first pub is CAMRA winner
By: JimOldfield
April 4th, 2012
A Yorkshire brewery’s first pub venture has been given a top slot by boozers. The Acorn Brewery, from Wombwell in South Yorks, relaunched the historic Old No 7 pub in nearby Barnsley as a cask ale specialist venue, after it was shut down by Enterprise Inns in 2010. A few months on, it has now Read the full post…
Beers meet engineers at Leeds ale fest
By: JimOldfield
March 11th, 2012
If you’re looking for a drink in the north, this week, West Yorkshire is definitely the place to be – with TWO ale festivals taking place between Thursday and Saturday (March 15-17).Kicking off on Thursday is the huge, three-day Leeds Beer, Cider and Perry Festival – being held as usual, at Pudsey Civic Hall. As Read the full post…
No Moonshine… Abbeydale does double as top Yorkshire beer!
By: JimOldfield
March 6th, 2012
Abbeydale brewery has taken the title of best beer in Yorkshire, for the second year running, at the Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival. Last year, its Absolution ale snatched top spot – and last night Sheffield’s top-notch brewers showed it was no flash in the mash tub as its golden ale, Moonshine, romped home Read the full post…
