Real Ale Walks
Introduction:
The perfect way to spend a weekend
Eight years ago we started Real Ale Walks as the sort of break that we would want to go on and coined the phrase, “The walking holiday for people who wouldn’t been seen dead on a walking holiday”. These walks do exactly what they say on the tin, they take small groups of like minded people on country walks to village pubs in the beautiful and largely unknown Quantock Hills in north-west Somerset.
All the walks are themed and, as we run a brewery, we also produce an ale for each walk to complement the theme – so for the Coleridge walk, we produce an eighteenth century porter for tasting on the Friday evening.
We don’t do anoraks, weak lemon drink and certainly DO NOT walk past a pub looking for a bus shelter to eat a soggy cheese sandwich in. WE DO wear Gortex if it rains, taste whatever the pubs have to offer (often sneaking out for a nightcap when no one’s looking) and spend quite a bit of time in village inns.
We have been know to allow lager and white wine spritzer drinkers on the walks as long as accompanied by a responsible real ale drinker.
This year we are running a few favourites and a couple of new walks.
WALKS FOR 2012:
18 – 20 May – In the (Not so Sober) Footsteps of Coleridge (Moderate) (SORRY FULL)
29 June – 1 July – Wine, Walking & Sun (& Beer) (Easy)
3 – 5 August – Quantock Pentathlon (Challenging)
7 – 9 September – Quantock CSI (Easy)
5 – 7 October - In the (Not so Sober) Footsteps of Coleridge (Moderate)
