Real Ale Guide UK

Drink Awareness - Drink sensibly and not any more than the UK goverment suggests.  Take a leaf out the UK's finest MP's and be cool.

Buying beer online, that will never happen, will it?

Of course like all things that get assigned to to the stupid ideas bin actually become great successes and Peter Kay once said garlic bread that's the future, Tim Berners Lee once said, i'm not too sure about this internet technology, landlord fill my empty pint glass up please.

Buying Beer online has started to be quite popular.  So popular that the number of websites and online beer retailers has increased during the last 12 month by 68%.  The number is expected to rise due to the number of breweries prepared to counter the falling sales in cheap beer through the super-markets.

This isn't so much concern for the UK governemnt as the buyers will statistcially be people who are wover 40 and drink sensisbly 'at home'.  Compared with under age drinking and binge drinking youngsters buying from the super-markets this can only be encouraged.

Greene King launched a real ale exclusive to its traditional London pubs earlier in 2009, if you manage to walk through 6 different Greene King pubs you'll get a t-shirt!  Well, not just walk through, you'll have to have a pint in each of Greene King's pubs to qualify for a t-shirt to say you've been there and drunk it!  I'm not exactly sure this encourages people to stick to their daily quota under the drink safe guide lines.  I guess it all boils down to how desperate you are for a T Shirt or how t

Strangford Lough Brewing Company’s Global Head Quarters is located in Killyleagh, County Down, on the shores of the breathtakingly beautiful Strangford Lough. The company was founded in 2004 by Tony Davies and Bob Little, two marketing and business development professionals whose vision was to be “the second most recognisable Irish beer brand in the world”.

Mayfields Brewery is a small family brewery based in Rural Herefordshire, producing traditional Ales and beers, using the best ingredients available.

Since February 2008 they have been brewing from a new site in Leominster.

Significant improvements, including a new water filter system have been made and using reverse osmosis (a non chemical method that gives us pure water to brew with!).

This is seen as an essential ingredient to brewing consistently great quality ales.

The Brewery is a small independent 4-barrel / 2-fermenter microbrewery located in the North West Highland village of Glenfinnan, about 15 miles from Fort William. It has a maximum production capacity of 1200 litres / week. The company was set up in Dec 2005 by three local ex-teachers: DJ Robertson (Mathematician) Dave Leckie (I.T. specialist) and John Fish (Biologist). Equipment, supplied by the Lancashire based Porter Brewing Company, was installed in an outbuilding in Glenfinnan in September 2006 and brewing commenced.

In 2002, we had a spark of inspiration at the Fox and Hounds! In a disused outbuilding laying dormant, we went to work on a barrel brewing plant. This coincided with birth of our youngest son John (See LJB)!

The Company was originally established as a true family concern, way back in 1828, when John Jennings Snr, a local farmer whose father William Jennings was a malster by trade, started brewing in the pretty Lake District village of Lorton, between Keswick and Cockermouth. By 1874, the Company had moved to its present idyllic location, in the historic market town of Cockermouth, in the shadow of Cockermouth Castle, at the point where the rivers Cocker and Derwent merge.