I've just got back from Manchesterⁱ from the wonderful beer festival. This is the 3rd National Winter Ales Festival in Manchester and its no suprise that they have many dark & strong beers. They did seem to have more lower alcohol beers this year and more foreign bottles.

Beers sampled from cask:
3 Rivers GMT & Hilary's Gold
Archers Crystal Clear
B&T Edwin Taylors Extra Stout - good & dry
Bazens Black Pig Mild
Broughton Old Jock
Burton Bridge Thomas Sykes Ale
Butts Jester Organic
Durham Black Velvet
Front Street Tsar
Hilden Skullion's Irish
Hogsback AoT
MoorhousesBlond Witch, Pendle Witch & Pride of Pendle
Orkney Northern Light
Red Nose Paddy O'hackers Irish Stout - another good dry stout
Robinson's Oldham Bitter
Spectrum Black Buffle
Springhead Cromwell's Hat
St Peter's Mild
Thornbridge Imperial Russian Stout
Thwaites Thoroughbred
Tomos Watkin Brewery Bitter & Merlin Stout
Wells & Youngs Winter Warmer
West Berkshire Maggs Magnificent Mild - excellent as everything from this brewery is!
Winters Bitter
Wolf Woild Moild
Woodforde's Mardlers

Foreign:
Cantillon Gueuze - excellently sour!
Erdinger Schneeweisse
Hacker Pschor Oktoberfestbier
Karg Dunkelweissbier
Keesmann Herren Pils
Silber Bock
Kooniig Ludwig Wiesse Bier
Schlenkerla Rauchbier Marzen - superbly smokey

Cider:
McConwll Ty Gwyn Bourbon Flavour
Severnsider Whiskey Flavour