1st Article now posted!

The write up of my visit to Leeds has now been added under the page headed Real Ale Pub Crawls around the UK.

Why Leeds? Well this year my fiancé and I have decided to visit as many towns and cities possible in the UK to assess their real ale scene, and try new beers. For the belief is that Sheffield has one of the finest real ale scenes, especially given the semi-famous crawl around Kelham Island.

Derby will be visited soon for it has won beer capital of Britain most recently, making it a priority crawl. Lincoln was visited in May and will be written up and posted soon.

On the horizon there are crawls around Durham, Newcastle (end of July), Bath and Bristol (early September) and by the end of the year we hope to have visited Manchester, Chesterfield (this Friday!) and Nottingham.

All crawls are planned using the Good Beer Guide (GBG) which shows on a map where are the pubs in it are, all over the country. Vigorous research is undertaken before the selection of pubs is chosen. For one cannot possibly get round all the entries in the GBG in a city in one night. And one most certainly does NOT drink halves unless there are serious time constraints.

So I hope you get something out of reading about beer missions in other places and give it a go, it is quite affordable. After all we manage it and I am a lowly agency worker and my fiancé is a student!