Gateshead beer festival is ran over the May Day Bank holiday weekend (3rd to the 5th of May this year), They have about 60 pumps on at any one time and over the space of the weekend they should have about 140 different beers available. They are supporting local brewer and breweries from across the [...]
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Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called [...]
View Post Beer Festival, cumbrian ale, cumbrian beer, northern beerThis just landed in my inbox so thought I’d share it as it sound like a blooming good festival and if I wasn’t going to the Hawkshed Beer Festival on Thursday I’d have popped up to Newcastle this weekend. We kick off on Friday at 3pm when our 3 bars will open. We have [...]
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The Captain Cook Inn are holding their annual Chrismas beer and pie festival, details are below Tuesday 27th – Friday 30th December Bar open 11am till midnight each day. The following ales will be served at The Cooks 4th Winter Warmers Fest. Okells, Red 4.7% Slaters, Blitzen 4.0% Idle, Santa 4.2% Copper Dragon, Christmas Classic [...]
View Post beer and pies, Beer Festival, beer festival captain cook inn, Captain Cook Inn, cask ale, pork piesI’ve just realised that it’s now nearly a month since the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) at Earls Court and then realised that I’d not written about it, party because I’ve been so busy since getting back but mainly because It was such a whirlwind of a day that I no matter what I write [...]
View Post Beer Festival, bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, foreign beer, GBBFThis years festival sees the launch of “Boulby Dark” from “The Staithes Brewery”. After the success of “Boulby Blonde”, a light refreshing 3.5% session ale we are pleased to announce that “Boulby Dark”, a 4.0% mild, will be made available at the festival to run alongside the said Blonde from opening time on Thursday 18th [...]
View Post Beer Festival, captain cook, cask ale, real ale, staithesJust found this in my inbox so thought I would share it, The rather excellent Newcastle Arms in Newcastle is having a beer festival that starts tomorrow. There are some brilliant beers from some of my favourite breweries so if you are in the area then it’s worth a look. You can also get the [...]
View Post Beer Festival, newcastle, northern beer, toonSaturday night saw a trip up to the much anticipated White Swan and Captain Cook Beer festival (not to be confused with the Captain Cook pub beer festival which was on at the same time in Staithes). We arrived at the White Swan in Stokesley in the early evening after a rather eventful taxi ride, [...]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, captain cook, cask ale, hand pulled aleThe White Swan in Stokesley home of the Captain Cook Brewery is having a Beer and Cheese festival over the Easter weekend, It starts on the 22nd and runs to the 25th. The White Swan is a fantastic little pub and Captain Cook make some very tasty beers, there will be some great beers on [...]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, cask beer, local ale, localeI just heard about another exciting event running this month, It’s at the excellent Free Trade Inn on the banks of the Tyne in Newcastle. It runs from 27th to the 30th January On Sunday evening they have some live music with a few local Blues and Jazz ‘The Eleven’ and the ‘Cup of tea [...]
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