Real Ale Guide UK

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.

At Shepherd Neame, heritage and traditional values go hand-in-hand with state-of-the-art technology and contemporary standards of customer service and care.

Shepherd Neame's traditions can be traced back to the foundation of our brewery in 1698 - with strong links to the town of Faversham and the local community many years before - and our commercial expertise is enhanced by 21st century production and distribution facilities. Shepherd Neame now has some 369 pubs across the South East.