Peterborough coming up!

Doesn't seem to be anything on this weekend, but umpteen on Peterborough weekend.

Guess I'll just have to go to Huddersfield, for a choice of 65+ beers all in walking distance?

Paul

Clacton also. A very friendly affair.

On Sat lunchtime/afternoon there will be a top-rate jazz band (Kid Tiddeman's all stars) As well as the usual wander in/out/round the town as you please relaxation.

I think you have it right, Paul. I've always been a fan of itinerant beer festivals - ie those that you create out of the pubs on offer in your chosen location - rather than standing in some sports hall or other civic venue. It would be a sad beer drinker who couldn't make his own 'festival' in a town like Huddersfield.*

I'm quite surprised that CAMRA haven't capitalised on this. I reckon a book of Pub Crawls in our major towns and cities would be a certain winner.

(* having said that, I love the idea of the Huddersfield OctoberFest in the local Sikh temple. It will be spectacular.)

Could be a real pain to keep up to date though. Basic pubs offering regular beers fill the main portion, then you go onto the guest stuff. What you need is a publication that gives you the basics... Yup GBG then you need an hourly update just to make sure you have the right beer choices. I'm sure we(*) could do the IT side, sadly I don't think anyone would feed in the data.

• IT techie people.

Thanks for reminding me. I wasn't sure which weekend it is but Google tells me it's the first - Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd October. More at . I really must make it there this year!

-- Pat Ricroft, City of Salford, UK ===============================

I dont agree. I'm not talking about specific beers on offer, rather pubs with a good reputation for quality beers. Many pubs have rotating guests - of course it would be impossible to update this on a 24/7 basis but thats not what is required.

Nope (to add to your rather anachronistic Americanism) absolutely not! The GBG is utterly useless for this purpose. It gives a selection of some decent pubs in a given area, but these are often miles apart and totally unsuitable for pub crawls. Far better are the local CAMRA websites with specific crawls (eg

) giving public transport information in detail that the GBG could not possibly manage. If all CAMRA branches provided itineraries covering their major towns or suburbs, there would not be a problem.

The Sheffield crawl on their website is very good, and it is excellent that there are a series of really good pubs to aim at.

Other could do more - we're off to Norwich (from Peterborough) for the day on Wednesday and the way the Norwich Branch lists pubs on line is not that helpful/

Fortunately we will be armed with a fairly up to date Norwich Pub guide which I went round and picked up from Paul Travis.

We're off to Cardiff in early September and the Cardiff Branch Website isn't much use. I'm going to plot the GBG entries on a map, though frankly Cardiff doesn't look up to much unless you like S A Braine's products (which I do but not all the time!) Unless anyone knows different.

Paul Travis tells me no Cardiff Pub Guide since 1994!

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You can get the GBG as a POI File for Tom Tom. I use it on my Nokia 6630.

Ken Ward.

There are limited opportunities in Cardiff for non-Brains ales. Cathedral Road has 4 such outlets close to each other, and there are 6 or

7 Wetherspoons.

Not the biggest in numbers of different beers though-Nottingham had over 600 last year and rumours are of a lot more this October. Mind you once it's over 60 different ones it's difficult to try them all :-)