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A "Quiet" Drink at Dartford Working Men's Club 24 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This post was supposed to be about last weekend’s visit to Dartford Working Men’s Club (DWMC), and to a large extent it is, but before detailing the excellent ra...
Festival Fatigue 22 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
As someone who is known for enjoying a pint, I often find work colleagues and acquaintances informing me of forthcoming beer festivals. This is especially true at this time of year where, with the Ban...
Caveman Brewery 20 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Last Saturday, along with a handful of other West Kent CAMRA members, I had cause to visit north Kent. Now this is not a part of the county which I’d normally...
Thursday at GBBF 2013 17 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
I must admit I didn’t enjoy this year’s Great British Beer Festival as much as I thought I would. I attended the festival on the Thursday, instead of my normal Friday, along with a number of friends f...
GBBF 2013 14 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), kicked off at midday today with the Trade Session. The festival then opened its doors to the general public at 5pm. I stopped going to the Trade Session a f...
A Personal View of Annafest 10 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
As most followers of this blog will have gathered by now, my son and I have recently returned from a week’s holiday in Franconia (the northern part of Bavaria). We based ourselves in the picturesque t...
Getting The Beers In 10 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
I may have let it slip in previous posts that I’m acting as the beer buyer for this year’s Rail and Real Ale Festival, which takes place in October at the Spa Valley Railway in Tunbridge Wells. As in...
A Brief Overview of Annafest 9 Aug 2013 | 01:03 am
I’m not quite sure how to describe Annafest, apart from to say it was unlike any beer festival I have ever been to before. But then German beer festivals aren’t the same as those we have in the UK an...
Mass Overload? 3 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
A litre is not a sensible measure for drinking beer. I say this after my recent visit to Annafest where the litre, or Maß (Mass) to give the unit its correct name, was the only measure beer was sold i...
Café Abseits - Bamberg 2 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am
Café Abseits, in Bamberg, is one of those places I’d always meant to visit, but somehow never quite got round to doing so, despite having made three previous visits to the city. Billed as Bamberg’s “...