Part of our challenge incorporated the need to replenish liquids and carbohydrates. There is no better way to do this than that old British faithful – beer!. In the spirit of the journey, we made a serious effort to sample local ales wherever possible.
\nThis wasn’t always so easy to achieve, but special mention goes to two places in particular:
\nFirstly, the Claghaig Inn in Glencoe (the village that is, not the vale of Glen Coe). They had a fantastic range of ales (we duly sampled the lot), confusingly renamed for the night with ridiculous Aussie titles, to complement the Aussie folk band who entertained us so well.
\nSecondly Base Camp Monmouth, where Paul had gone to lengths to search out some local bottled ales for us to relax with (credit also to the policies of the Waitrose Beer buyers in supporting local breweries – just as important as supporting local farmers in my book)<\/p>\n
Anyway, here’s the list for any beer addicts to salivate over:<\/p>\n
Deuchars IPA (Caledonian Brewery)
\nTennents Ember 80\/- (Wellpark, Glasgow)
\nRed Cuillin (Isle of Skye Brewing Company)
\nTradewinds ( Cairngorm Brewery, Inverness)
\nBlack & Tan (Houston Brewing Co., Houston, Renfrewshire)
\nSeven Giraffes (Williams Bros. Brewing Co. Alloa)
\nSkye light (Isle of Skye Brewing Company)
\nRambo the Mighty Midge (Houston Brewing Co., Houston, Renfrewshire)
\nPeter\u2019s Well (Houston Brewing Co., Houston, Renfrewshire
\nBelhaven Best (Belhaven Brewery)
\nBall\u2019s Up \u2013 Tirril Brewery, Cumbria
\nTraditional Cumberland Ale \u2013 Jennings Brewery, Cockermouth
\nBombardier (Charles Wells)
\nCotleigh Kiwi (Cotleigh Brewery, Wiveliscombe, Somerset)
\nWye Valley HPA (Wye Valley Brewery, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire)
\nLudlow Best (Ludlow Brewing Co.)
\nButty Bach (Wye Valley Brewery, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire)
\nWild Hare (Bath Ales, Warmley, Bristol)
\nDorothy Goodbody\u2019s Country Ale (Wye Valley Brewery, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire)
\n1503 (Kingstone Brewery, Tintern, Monmouth )
\nBarnstormer (Bath Ales, Warmley, Bristol)
\nClassic Bitter (Kingstone Brewery, Tintern, Monmouth )
\nHobgoblin (Wychwood Brewery, Witney, Oxfordshire)
\nLizard Bitter (Lizard Ales, St Keverne, Lizard peninsula)
\nDoom Bar (Sharps Brewery, Rock, Cornwall)<\/p>\n
Ian sampled two local malts in Lochmaben (sorry, dinna ken the names) and when times were hard, we made do with Stella, Murphy’s, Strongbow & Kronenburg. A job well done I reckon……..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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