Well done to the city centre pub The Wellington for being voted the pub of the year in Birmingham yet again.

Now this is a good idea for promoting rural pubs that would get missed out on a pub crawl, as you can't walk between them - get together & have a beer festival with shuttle buses stopping at each pub

MK Beer festival clashed with Birmingham Beer Festival / MN's stag,
so I made my regular excursion yesterday for their first night

It sounds like a headline from The Onion, but there I've said it.   The Tetley brewery in Leeds has been marked for closure for a while

A perfumed floral hop tasting beer with a little sugar sweetness to it.

Fairly dry, light beer.   Good bitterness throughout to the aftertaste.

A good solid stout with good burnt malt flavours.   Good bitterness too.

This beer used to be a wheatbeer in the German crystal weissebeer style but now is a crossover beer that would appeal to lager drinkers finding their feet in the world of ale.

All of Otley's beers have an "O"- theme running through the names.   O-Garden is a wonderful take on the Belgian wheatbeers only in an ale style rather than a lager style.