The GWAF is no more!

In a bizarre move, only worthy of a bureaucrat or an advertising executive, CAMRA's Great Winter Ales Festival has been rebranded....to......

Wait for it......

The Great British Beer Festival Winter

Wow!

I wonder how many months of thought went into that name?!

What a total waste of time, effort and money!

And you know what?  Those loyal to the festival, who have been attending for years, will continue to call it The Great Winter Ales Festival.

The festival will be held in St Andrews And Blackfriars Halls (The Halls) Norwich, where the
Norwich Beer Festival was recently held.

The festival on from 20th - 24th February 2018

Oktoberfest Come To Chester

What a total waste or money!

£17.60 a ticket!!  The only "German" beer was Erdinger Weissbier, which the value sells anyway, and    Holsten Vier.

They had a very cheesy interactive um-pah band who tried to get everyone in the main hall going and even the halftime music was cheesy!  You couldn't even get away from it as they were mirroring the sound in the other room!

I was expecting a German Beer Bar with a decent selection of German beer!

I'm off to The Cellsr for some real German beer!

If you see this event near you, don't bother!

Check Me Out On Social Media

Hi guys,

I'm more active on social media than I am on here these days.  

To find out what I'm drinking head to my Untappd page https://untappd.com/user/CyberBeer

To find out what I think of what I'm drinking catch my live reviews either on my Twitter @cyber_beer or on my Periscope channel https://www.periscope.tv/CyberBeer.

I always live review when I'm out and about in pubs, so following my Twitter is probably your best option.  I am also on Facebook.  www.facebook.com/CyberBeer though |I don't update this as often a Twitter.

I also post beer and pub photos on my Instagram.  www.instagram.com/cyber_beer

Have a great time drinking and stay safe

Cyber Beer

Micropubbing in Liverpool 11/10/17

This evening I visited two Liverpool micropubs. 

Catching the train one stop from Liverpool Lime Street station to Wavertree Technology Park, I had a mile walk to my first destination, Liverpool's new micropub, The Ale House in Old Swan. 

This large, single-room pub was friendly and inviting.  Area wise it was a lot larger than what I would generally class as a "Micropub".  The lady serving was nice and the regulars were friendly.  I didn't get too many odd looks when reviewing, but it was quite quiet for 5pm on Wednesday afternoon.

The beer range was a mixture of big national brands and smaller breweries along with four real ciders.  They have their own beer from local brewery Big Bog called Black Swan, however I suspect this may be Big Bog's Stog Milk Stout rebadged!

From The Ale House I walked a mile to the Cask Micropub.

Cask is small, a single room pub, but about half the size of The Ale House, its capacity must be about 30-40 people!

Cask can have up to six real ales on, but mid-week was only serving three.  They also have a well stocked bottle fridge, with its own printed menu, containing a good range for popular Belgian beers to bottles for Liverpool's Mad Hatter brewery.

Upon leaving cask I walked the 10 minutes to the nearest bus stop to get back into the centre of Liverpool.

I had a great evening, The Ale House has been on my radar to visit for some time and I hadn't visited Cask since June 2016.