Well, that's what it seems like, when you read lists of beers available at festivals, pubs' guest beer lists, etc.
Here's Whitehaven's provisional list, anway - looks good to me! (Not a ticker!)
Cumberland and Westmorland beers
Barngates Brewery Ltd - Westmorland Gold 4.2 Beckstones Brewery - Beer O'clock 3.9 Beckstones Brewery - La'al Swarty Stout 4.6 Bitter End Pub & Brewery - A (wheat) Beer ? Coniston Brewing Co. Ltd - Bluebird Bitter 3.6 Derwent Brewery - Late Summer 4 Derwent Brewery - Doctor's Dilemma 4.6 Foxfield Brewery - Whitehaven Wobbler 11 Foxfield Brewery - A Beer (dark mild) ? Great Gable Brewing Company Ltd - Liar 3.4 Great Gable Brewing Company Ltd - Illgill IPA 5 Hawkshead Brewery - Red 4.6 Hesket Newmarket Brewery Limited - Great Cockup Porter 3.2 Hesket Newmarket Brewery Limited - Haystacks 3.6 Loweswater Brewery - Rannerdale Best 4 Tirril Brewery Limited - Bewshers Best Bitter 3.8 Ulverston Brewing Co - Bad Medicine 6 Wolverhampton & Dudley PLC - A new 3.8% beer (brewed specially for us!!) Yates Brewery Ltd - Yates Bitter 3.7 Yates Brewery Ltd - Solway Sunset 4.3
Lancashire beers
Bank Top Brewery Ltd - Sir Gareth 3.7% Bazen's B rewery - Pacific 3.6% Boggart Hole Clough Brewing Company - a new beer 5.0% Brysons of Lancaster (Brewers) Ltd - Hurricane 4.0% Cambrinus Craft Brewery - Band Stand 3.7% Coach House Brewing Company Ltd - Blueberry Bitter 5.0% Facer's - Dave's Hoppy Beer 3.6% George Wright Brewing Company - Court Jester 4.2% Hopstar Brewery - Vicar's 25k 4.5% Hydes Brewery Ltd - ? Joseph Holt Ltd- Humdinger 4.1% Lancaster Brewing Co Ltd- Lancaster Blonde 4.0% Leyden Brewing Ltd - Calico Jack 4.0% Lowes Arms Brewery - ? Marble Beers Ltd - Mayflower Brewery - Black Diamond 3.4% Merlin Brewery Ltd - ? Moorhouse's Brewery (Burnley) Ltd - Owl Brewing Co Ltd - Phoenix - Struggling MOnkey 4.7% Pictish Brewing Co Ltd - Aztec Gold 4.8% Porter Brewing Co Ltd - Ramsbottom Brewery - Tom Foolery 4.0% Red Rose Brewery - Treacle Miners' Tipple 3.9% Southport Brewery - Bothy Beer 3.9% Three B's Brewery - Wapping Beers Ltd- new beer 3.8% Frederic Robinson - seasonal 4.3%
All subject to change or confirmation, and a name, in some cases!
Whitehaven is a wonderful, small, friendly, seaside town and the beer festival is excellent.