1st Chappel Winter Ale Festival

Our first blog on Essex Days Out reporting on the annual late-summer trip to the Chappel & Wakes Colne Real Ale Festival. Last Friday evening we went to the 1st Winter Ale Festival – a much, much colder affair! Unlike other real ale festivals, it was admittance by ticket, which had to be bought in [...]

The Wellhouse, Exeter

Even further afield at the moment! Reporting live from The Wellhouse, Exeter, at a table overlooking Exeter Cathedral, sipping a pint of Headstrong from the Blackawton Brewery which is based in the Tamar valley at Saltash (website :  http://www.blackawtonbrewery.co.uk).

I’ve got a burger due shortly, and am 3g-ing this. If you leave Colchester at 7:15 you can be [...]