Cockermouthⁱ Beer Festival is pretty darned good.

National chains of supermarkets used to be crap for decent beer.   Shelves and shelves of discounted cooking lager, a whole isle devoted to wine but they stocked more varieties of olive o

Yes, I'm a beardy weirdy real ale drinker.

What is it? It's unpastuerised and unfiltered beer.

Beer of the festival was Bazen's Liberty Aleⁱ and most people agreed with me.