Blatant Plug - Worth Valley Beer and Music Weekend

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Definitely recommended, the KWVR is my favourite railway !

Hey, we have enjoyed the KWVRR many many times, and the beer is always great. Wish we could be there. Maybe this Spring??

We have always enjoyed the pubs in Oxenhope, but we most miss the Waggon and Hosses -- when it was a brewpub. Such a loss.

The Waggon still has a good range of beers on (and food). Definitely worth a visit.

The Beer Festival was so busy on the Friday night last year that I couldn't get to the bar without an extremely long wait, I turned round and left, and didn't bother going back [1][

I agree with the other poster that Dr. Busker is worth seeing, but I reckon you'll need to be there well in advance to have any chance of getting in to see him.

I'll be out of the country this weekend, but, had I been at home, I don't think I would have bothered with the (relatively easy) trip to Oxenhope, based on last year's experience, sorry. The festival is becoming more and more popular, but the venue just isn't big enough to cope.

[1] OK - I did have a couple of beers on the trains, where the fight to get to the bar was a bit easier.

Well we have made more space by taking some vehicles out of the shed

Got more bar staff from Keighley Camra

Organised extra catering and toilets

And provided bars on trains all night to spread the load.

So we hope it should be quieter. and easier to get served,

Last time thru we stopped and tasted a variety of ales -- all VERY blonde, light, and not all that hopped. The earlier landlord brewed a wider variety including some very robust dark ales well hopped. We really miss him! We also mourn the passing of OP, RamTam, and Riggwelter, none of which can be readily found in Hawes, Askrigg, Holmfirth, Hebden Bridge, Hepworth, Oxenhope, or Jackson Bridge (for example).

We usually have dinner at the Black Sheep brewery just to get the Riggwelter. And the brew-pub in Marsden does do some nice dark ales. And there is always the Mild festival at the Rat and Ratchet in Huddersfield -- wonderful stuff.

At least some of the olde Yorkshire brews can be found, but damned few these days. It all seems to be dumbed down for the great unwashed.

nick

So you recognised that there were problems and did something positive about them. Well done.

It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that some of my own branch members might have helped you staff the festival, if we'd been asked, either.

Riggwelter is a more-or-less permanent fixture on the bar at the West Riding in Dewsbury. They do occasionally put Ram Tam on in winter, too, as do all 10 Ossett pubs, AFAIK, and there are two of those within walking distance of where I'm typing this :-)

Riverhead, now part of the Ossett group.

Yep, well worth buying a rail ticket to get to that one.

Thanks i'll bear that in mind