We went to the Cockermouthⁱ Beer Festival last Friday for our last beer fest of the year (not long 'til

Good brew pub and my best man's local. Gets busy. Real brickwork, real stove for warming up next to & plenty of choice of real ale. A proper English pub. Good food too.

The worst beer festival I've been to. Almost all the beer had a barnyard taint to it. We tried 40 beers in all and only a handfull were as good as reasonable. How does that happen?

Cockermouthⁱ Beer Festival is pretty darned good.