Foxfield Prince of Wales

Food at Foxfield will be on and is exceptional. Really tasty home prepared pasties with amazing fillings, mushy peas my fave. Home-made bread for sandwiches. I've been six times this year already!

Whitehaven beer festival, just up the line, also on. You could grab both. Festival about 5 mins walk from Corkickle station, if that! (Not Whitehaven Station)

beers list at

Thanks Chris wasn't aware of beer festival but will call. See you there no doubt. Beer list looks good.

hic! see you tomorrow, then!

Very nice festival Chris. Nice to have all the beers on handpump and a sensible pricing policy. A nice glass too - now behind the bar in Midgehole Club having contained several pints of Chinook yesterday.

The Prince of Wales was busy with and Irish Group on. Had a couple of pints then headed south on the 1730 train. We had to leave on that one because it is the only train that Northern operate between Lancaster and Preston.

The food looked good but we were too late. So the day was rounded off with a good curry in Preston whilst changing trains. Back in Hebden Bridge at

Now for Nottingham on the 31st...

Just out of interest, what's a "sensible priving policy"? I know from the feedback from the (non-CAMRA) festival we hold here in Lancaster that the non-returnable glass at a fiver is a bit of a put off for some people.

Cliff

Just out of interest, what's a "sensible priving policy"? I know from the feedback from the (non-CAMRA) festival we hold here in Lancaster that the non-returnable glass at a fiver is a bit of a put off for some people.

Cliff

Well what I was referring to was the fact that they were all £2.60 without the extra 5p/10p or whatever that you sometimes see at Beer Festivals

Robinsons Old Tom was £2.60 for less than a pint (think it was a half or a third) but it remained the same price.

I think £5 (non refundable) for a glass is expensive , though it depends on the price of entry to some extent.

---------- Up here you pay ten pounds to get in, for which you get a glass (non-returnable) and a fiver in token, which unfortunately isn't enough to buy yourself two pints of anything.

I have raised this once or twice with the organisers because I think it creates a slight impression of a bit of a money-grab. Even if one is likely to spent a tenner or more in the course of a night I think people want to choose how to do that. Your prices sound much more reasonable, but then Lancaster is something of an anomaly for its prices, which for some reason are higher than neighbouring towns.

Cliff

This is totally against CAMRA policy so I hope your branch does not help out in any way - or if individual members do, I hope they do not allow CAMRA's name to be associated.

Some of us cupboards full of glasses and really do not want any more!

Indeed! I now refuse to go to festivals where I cannot return the glass. I really cannot face being forced to buy yet another glass I don't want.

David