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Brewery Visits

As part of our commitment to supporting smaller independent breweries we run several Brewery Visits during the course of a year. Some are fairly local and arranged for a week-night, whilst others are part of Saturday day-trips. Coach/minibus trips pick up at Pontefract and Wakefield but arrangements can usually also be made for picking up at South Kirkby. Other trips make use of the region's public transport network. Some brewers make a small charge which may also cover something to eat, but the opportunities for sampling are usually very liberal or unlimited! Watch the Branch Diary for forthcoming trips. Come with us via the Brewery Picture Gallery

Acorn Brewery, Wombwell
Ashover Brewery, Derbyshire
Atomic & Alexandra Arms Breweries, Rugby
Boat Brewery, Allerton Bywater
Brampton Brewery,Chesterfield
Bridgnorth Brewing
Brown Cow, Barlow near Selby
Bull Lane Brewery, Sunderland
Burton Bridge Brewery
Captain Cook Brewery, Stokesley
Clark's Brewery, Wakefield
Conwy Brewery, North Wales
Copper Dragon Brewery, Skipton
Corvedale, Shropshire
Dark Tribe Brewery, East Butterwick
Dent Brewery
Derwent Brewery, Silloth, Cumbria
Dolphin Brewery, Shrewsbury
East Coast Brewing Co., Filey
Elland Brewery
Fantasy Brewery, Nuneaton 
Fawcetts' Maltings, Castleford
Five Towns Brewery, Outwood (a web album)
Fugelestou Ales, Louth, Lincolnshire
Fuller, Smith & Turner not a branch visit but this website's editor on tour - a web album
George Wright, Rainford, Merseyside 
Golcar Brewery firstly a call by local and regional members to the brewery's open day as part of Golcar Lily Day 2009 then a branch visit (web album)
Great Heck Brewing Co.
Halifax Steam, Hipperholme not a branch visit but a casual call by CAMRA members (small web album)
Hanby Ales, Wem, Shropshire
Holdens, Woodsetton
Hydes, Moss Side, Manchester
Iceni Brewery, Ickburgh, Norfolk
Jarrow Brewery
Leadmill Brewery, Denby, Derbyshire !SLOW
Leatherbritches Brewery, Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire 
Leeds Brewery
Leyden Brewery, Nangreaves, Bury
Lion's Tail, Cheswardine, Market Drayton
Little Valley Brewery, Cragg Vale
Ludlow Brewing
Mallinsons Brewery, Lindley, Huddersfield
Moorland Brewery near Oxenhope
Naylors Brewery, Cross Hills, Keighley 
Newton Court Cidery, near Leominster
Nottingham Brewery
Offa's Dyke, Trefonen, Shropshire
Old Swan (Ma Pardoes)
Ossett
Riverhead, Marsden
Rudgate Brewery, Tockwith
Samuel Smith's Old Brewery, Tadcaster
Southport Brewery
Spire Brewery, Staveley, near Chesterfield
Station House, Ellesmere Port
Stonehouse Brewery, near Oswestry
T & R Theakston Ltd
Tunnel Brewery,Ansley nr Nuneaton
Twickenham Fine Ales not a branch visit but this website's editor on tour - a small sneak peek web album
Ulverston Brewery 
Wawne Brewery, Wawne near Hull
Whalebone Brewery, Hull
Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland
Whitley Bridge, Newton Hill, Wakefield
Willy's Pub & Brewery, Cleethorpes
Wissey Valley Brewery, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk
Wood Brewery, Shropshire
Wylam Brewery, Northumberland
Yard of Ale,Ferryhill, Co.Durham
visits in 2000
visits in 2001
visits in 2002
visits in 2003
visits in 2004
visits in 2005
visits in 2006
visits in 2007
visits in 2008

Visits in 2009

Saturday 17 January 2009 saw Wakefield CAMRA's Festival Workers' Outing in Derbyshire to visit these breweries: Brampton at Chesterfield, Ashover at Ashover and Spire at Staveley. On Tuesday 27th January there's a visit to Clark's Brewery Wakefield, and on Sunday 22nd February a day at the seaside visiting the East Coast Brewery at Filey. In March the branch visited Mallinsons Brewery at Lindley, Huddersfield. Also displayed are pictures from a local pub visit to Theakstons at Masham. The May visit was to the new Five Towns Brewery in Outwood - so tiny that we spit the group over two nights! In late June a long awaited visit was made to Southport Brewery, with the Thornbridge Hall Garden Hall Party in early July affording an opportunity to meet the brewers at Thornbridge. August's visit was to Golcar Brewery.

 

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