I liked it so much I even bought the t shirt!read more

From the owner: Craft beer with 20 taps and over 150 bottlesread more

Had a great day out today fulfilling my yearning for some serious real ale action after months of…read morelife in Germany. To that end, I visited one of the UK's oldest independent breweries, Three Tuns. I'm not sure how old the existing building is, but it's a gorgeous red brick affair that was threatened with residential development in 2002. Fortunately, common sense won out and the brewery began producing again in 2003. The current output can only be described as fantastic. I drank Three Tuns all over mid-Shropshire today, and each pint was magical. From the first extremely hoppy XXX, to the pint of Stirling after lunch in the adjacent Three Tuns Inn, to the pint of Curate straight from the barrel. I ended up going home a happy man carrying 12 pints of the amber nectar with me. Unfortunately, brewery tours have to be booked in advance, and it's best to arrange for a Saturday. I shall do just that!

Having visited the pub next door a few times and sampling the beer that is brewed here, I have to…read moresay it is one of the finest selection of traditionally brewed ales I have ever tasted. Go there - try some - simple!

Wonderful micro-brewery and beers. They have a pub also called the Norman Knight with all of their…read morebeers, amazing place! Keep up the good work. Best beer in the area for miles.....

Sue raved about this beer so on our way to where we were staying we stopped (and she found) at…read morePurple Moose Brewery. You can do a tasting. The beers are room temp. They give you small plastic cups to try the beer. Not ideal, but at least you get a sampling of what they have to offer. The rest of the place is a souvenir shop. We picked up a few bottles of beer to drink during our stay in Wales and subsequently take back to the states and I got a t-shirt.

American brewery hoppers in Liverpool. We like this place! They're so nice, their beers are good…read moreand it has a nice, chill atmosphere. Be warned, it's really hard to find! Maps will misdirect you. It's at the end of Kings Dock across from the timber place that says "Beers" ironically. Cheers

Hidden down Kitchen Street in the heart of the Baltic Triangle, the walk to Black Lodge Brewing is…read moremore than worth it. If anything, it's part of the charm; you feel like you're discovering something new, something hardly touched or visited, when you first glimpse the small black and white sign outside. Located in a large warehouse (and as expected of a working brewery) there are very few airs and graces, the main decor being that of essential equipment and the large white tiled back bar. Three large vats of current brews is a great addition, listing the ingredients and dates they are expected to be on tap on a large chalkboard suspended from the ceiling. As the only people there when we arrived, I took the chance to have a chat with the guy simultaneously doing stock take and serving us. Although they're new, open since the beginning of December, they're stocked in couple of bars in the city (including BrewDog) and have recently launched a Mikkeller running club, an excellent way to engage with the local drinking community. I tried some of their Blackberry IPA and eventually ordered a schooner, Josh going for a South Coast Pale, which we then took over to a table. The taps were all around £3.50 per 2/3 and, although not an overpowering fruity taste, the Blackberry IPA was very refreshing with a subtle finish. They have a deck of beautifully branded playing cards on each table so we played a few hands of Karma and Rummy, paired with a few more drinks. They have a selection of cans and bottles behind the bar which they're more than happy to talk through, helping me to expand my beer knowledge with a can of Magic Rock Hire Wire Grapefruit. Tabs are taken and written on the white tiles; a simple and multi-purpose solution to this bar's requirements. We could have happily spent the whole evening here and explored the meat and cheese boards, but the pull of local exploration won. A great addition to Liverpool and hopefully we'll be seeing plenty more of them in future.

Awesome beers at great prices. Watch out for the special beers they often produce in really small…read morequantities. I've never had a bad blue monkey beer! The shop also sells great merchandise such as t-shirts, bar mats, bottle openers etc. you can ask for some free blue monkey beer mats with your purchase!

WOW, what a find!!!! This is a fabulous relaxing but contemporary bar/shop and micro-brewery where…read moreyou can buy a pint or half of real ale (or tea/coffee and soft drinks) to drink there and then or you can buy sterile filtered beer in a bottle to take home! Also available is the same 4 beers (all bitters) in a 5ltr mini cask to take home. This is just like drinking from a bar tapits got its own built in tap and after letting it to settle at home (because of the yeast still in the beer) just vent it and drink! Brillient idea for who ever thought of it. They also sell gift packs of the bottled beer, tshirts, a glass cask flask (which is a 2ltr bottle with a pewter handle) that for £20 can be filled with beer free (the first fill only) from the bar tap and drunk back at home, then you can keep taking it back to any bar tap and have it filled up again, even your local pub. Back to the place itself, its also a fully working micro-brewery where on certain days you can watch the master brewer (Julia) and her husband (Scott) make the beer and then 2 weeks later its bottled where again you can watch. Children are allowed in accompanied. There is a more relaxed seating area upstairs with tub chairs and coffee tables some seats even overlook the brewing vessels. I know they are licensed until 11pm so are available for hire as a function facility.what a unusual place for a party, even have Julia (Master Brewer) or Scott (Brewing Engineer) giving a talk on the brewing process both in that place or the main brewery in Kings Brommley (where the cask ales are produced for the bar and the pub trade) while you have your party. Ideal for a stag or hen night? Its ideal for any function and its ideal for a relaxing drink while having a day out shopping.

From the owner: Quartz Brewing is a microbrewery brewing some great alesread more

This multi-award-winning brewery's ales arrived a few years ago and through quality and flavour…read morethey quickly became established as a good, standard, local ale for many pubs in Birmingham to run on their pumps. Pure UBU at 4.5% is stronger tasting than it's alcohol content. Mad Goose at 4.2% has slightly less alcohol but is the more robust tasting of the two. Pure Gold is their light golden ale that weighs in at 3.8%. As well as the ales that they brew the brewery are distributors for traditional German lagers and the citrusey Maisels Weisse Beer. Dear to the heart of Purity is an environmental ethos, and they utilise a wetland area that they have created to filter waste water from the brewing process. They also use natural ingredients and they support recycling schemes. Evidence of this is to be found at the Moseley Folk Festival and the Mostly Jazz Festivals where drinkers pay £1 for a quality plastic glass which they are encouraged to keep for the weekend to get refilled. I like my Purity in the form of a Mad Goose from the Hare & Hounds, as I'm perched on a stool at 'Ronnie's Corner.'

Having tried the beers on offer from Purity at several local pubs and festivals I have been…read moremightily impressed. Their beer is crisp and fresh and makes a great alternative to the normal choice you often get in pubs, which is either the gassy and rubbish big brand beers like Carling, or else the 'reassuringly expensice' fashionable continental lagers. That Purity is also a local brew makes it all the more worth supporting. I took a trip out to their brewery and was surprised to find that such a great product comes from such a small place. This is literally a small family farm, but the brewery have made great efforts to make it worth the trip out. Their small shop stocks the beer in various shapes and sizes - from gift bottles to kegs - and there are also some tshirts and other branded items if you really want to show your support.

If you are in the area, this is a must stop. It has fantastic views of the river. The food was…read morespectacular. Half of my group got vegetarian dishes and half did not. I personally ordered the wild boar pie and it was amazing!

Amazingly fast service, friendly staff. Good food. Had the Sunday roast. Yum! Amazing view of the…read moreRiver Dee