Drinks

Here are links reflecting my interests in certain alcoholic drinks.

Real ale and other interesting beer

• Some definitions of beer-related words
• A beer festival "user guide"
• Organisations
  • CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale)
  • Cambridge & District CAMRA - Cambridge Beer Festival
  • CURAS (Cambridge University Real Ale Society)
• Some of my favourite Cambridge pubs (in no particular order)
  • The Cambridge Blue, Gwydir Street
  • The Kingston Arms, Kingston Street (WhatPub page)
  • The Devonshire Arms, Devonshire Road
  • The Live and Let Live, Mawson Road (WhatPub page)
  • The Free Press, Prospect Row (WhatPub page)
  • The Castle Inn, Castle Street (WhatPub page)
• Another Cambridge institution
  • Bacchanalia (formerly the Jug & Firkin), 90 Mill Road: a specialist off-licence, with a very wide range of British and foreign bottled beer
• Some favourite pubs further afield
  • The Queen's Head, Newton, Cambs
  • The Old Cannon Brewery, Cannon Street, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
  • The Coach and Horses, Thorpe Road, Norwich
  • The Lytton Arms, Old Knebworth, Herts
  • The Turf Tavern, Oxford
  • The Blue Anchor, Coinagehall Street, Helston, Cornwall
  • The Borough Arms, Earle Street, Crewe
• Other useful sites
  • WhatPub - CAMRA's national pub listing
  • Beer in the Evening - UK pub listings and reviews
  • Beer Mad - many useful/interesting links
  • quaffale - directory of UK real ale breweries
  • BeerMe - worldwide brewery listings
  • Individual Pubs Ltd

Mead

• Tasting notes and maybe some other thoughts

Port

At some point there may be information and links about this fortified wine.

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Last update: 2018-06-29 09:18 BST