Beer Links

Beer Links

There are of course countless Websites devoted to beer, some fascinating, some boring, certainly far too many to be listed individually here. This page is a tiny selection of the relevant possibilities, to give you a start in exploring the electronic world of beer......

National CAMRA
Great British Beer Festival
CAMRA Branches in the Southwest
Other CAMRA Branches
Cornish Breweries
Cornish Pubs
Real Ale for Home Delivery
Westcountrypubs.com

Cask Marque
Miscellaneous

National CAMRA

The CAMRA HQ site gives a comprehensive description of the organisation, including lists of other Branches on the Internet, local beer festivals and beer guides, news, views etc. A related site concerns the Young Members Task Force Group, a working party of the Campaign trying to get young people under 26 to join CAMRA and become more aware of real ale.

Great British Beer Festival

The Great British Beer Festival (or GBBF, as it is affectionately known), has a site of its own. Find out the latest and anything you need to know by paying it a visit.

Other South-West Branches on-line

Bristol & District Branch
Exeter & East Devon Branch
Gloucestershire Branch
North Devon Branch
South Devon Branch
Plymouth Branch

As well as news of CAMRA activities in other parts of the region, these sites have comprehensive sets of other interesting links including (on the Bristol site) a full list of breweries on the Internet.

Nationwide CAMRA Branches on-line

Apart from the CAMRA Website itself, you can check on what other branches around the country are doing through the Camra Branches site.

Cornish Breweries on the Internet

*St. Austell Brewery*	St Austell
*Skinner's Brewery*	Truro

Cornish Pubs On-line

There are a few, but the number is slowly increasing....

Boscastle:	*Cobweb Inn*
Cadgwith	*Cadgwith Cove Inn*
Crowntown:	*Crown Inn*
Pendeen:	*North Inn*
Pendeen:	*Radjel Inn*
Pendeen:	*Trewellard Arms Hotel*
Penzance:	*Pirate Inn*
Polperro:	*Crumplehorn Inn*
Porthleven	*Atlantic Inn*
St. Breward	*Old Inn*
St. Ives	*Western Hotel*
Trevaunance Cove	*Driftwood Spars*

Real Ale for Home Delivery

http://www.beer4home.co.uk/

You can order polypins etc of real ale from small breweries (e.g Kelburn, Belvoir, Breconshire....) to be delivered to your door within 24 hours of being drawn from the conditioning tank. Run by CAMRA members. As the site promoter says, "This is not a commercial venture as you can see by the pricing, there is very little by way of profit and therefore our marketing budget is very small. We are all trying to promote, educate and introduce the general public to cask ale".

Cask Marque

Find out more on the scheme which aims to promote real ale of consistent quality, and awards the 'marque' to landlords who meet their exacting standards, including most of St. Austell Brewery's pubs in Cornwall. They can be found at the Cask Marque website, and among other things list pub licensees by region who have already gained the award.

Miscellaneous

BeerToday is a Cornish internet site which provides local real ale-related news and information; its editor is a local CAMRA member. The site includes material about pubs and brewing in Cornwall as well as elsewhere. Local pubs feature strongly (with personal experience a material part of the description), and there is even a featured 'Pub of the Week'.
One of the best sites for looking up pubs wherever you are going has to be Beer in the Evening, or BITE. You can find pubs in towns, villages or in the middle of nowhere, pubs near railway stations, etc just by entering a search criterion, usually the place name or postcode. Also you can specify what you are looking for (food, a pool table....) Many of the pubs have been visited and reported on by various people so you get an idea what things are like before attempting a visit.
Mustn't forget the Beer Hunter, our own Michael Jackson's home page containing lots of interesting stuff on beers and breweries, domestic and foreign.
Fancy a pub crawl abroad? Why not join a beer-orientated tour to Holland, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic...? Excellent value trips are organised using mostly rail services, starting from London by Eurostar or Harwich by hoverfoil. See Beer Traveller for full information on what's coming up in 2006. There is also lots of information on beer drinking in East Anglia, other places in the UK, Flanders etc.
Or if you are off to Northern Ireland, you can see a pretty comprehensive run-down of real ale pubs and bars on the Mark's Ale House website - personally recommended.
Like to combine walking with a drink of the good stuff? Try the Real Ale Walks website for some ideas.
Recently launched is Westcountrypubs.com and their aim during the coming year is 'to become the leading guide on pubs and bars in the South West of England'. They currently list over 5,000 establishments and will, they say, continue to enhance the database as they gather further information. Go to Westcountrypubs.com for the information you might need when travelling out of county (although they don't give pub opening times, so check by phone first if you are making a special journey).

Other links will be added as they are found, according to content and interest.

Page updated 12 September 2006