Please note that some of them are external sites over which we have no control.

Local Branches of CAMRA
Stockport & South Manchester
Trafford & Hulme
Rochdale Oldham & Bury
Wigan

Local Beers and Breweries
Bazens' Brewery of Salford
Boggart Hole Clough Brewery of Blackley
Holts of Cheetham Hill
Hydes Anvil Brewery of Hulme
Lees of Middleton
Marble Brewery of North Manchester
Mayflower Brewery of Wigan
Robinson's of Stockport
Three Rivers of Stockport
Directory of UK Real Ale Breweries

Local Pubs and Clubs
City Arms, Manchester city centre, a long standing entry in the Good Beer Guide and now with added website
Belgian Belly, Chorlton's foremost stockist of Belgian beers, now licensed to sell exotic beverages for consumption on as well as off the premises (but you have to be eating if you drink in)
Manchester pubs by ScottyWeb
Manchester pubs by the local Civic Society
The Central Manchester Slow Pub Crawl - a very comprehensive review of all the pubs and bars in city centre Manchester, though sadly with no information on beer quality as the authors are dedicated lager drinkers
Manchester Metrolink Tour by Natasha Moorfield
Stalybridge Station Buffet & Bar
Manchester City Centre Pubs by Papillon Graphics - Manchester 2002
Salford Pubs by Papillon Graphics - Manchester 2002
Le Trappiste Belgian Café Bar, Altrincham
The Gallows, Milnrow (outside Rochdale and close to junction 21 of the M62)
Greater Manchester Pub Guide (bit thin, but it's a start)

Beer Festivals
Beer Festivals UK Guide
Pendle Beer Festival

Trading Standards
If you've been served short measure, or been given keg when you Asked for Cask, then the first thing to do is to tell the bar staff. If you're still not satisfied, you might want to contact City of Manchester Trading Standards or City of Salford Trading Standards.

Travel Information
Streetmap
Greater Manchester Journey Planner
Day Tickets and Fares on buses, trains and trams in Greater Manchester
National Rail

Cask Ale and how it's brewed
Ask if it's Cask
Cask Marque an accreditation scheme for pubs selling cask ale
The Brewing Process as explained by Scottish & Newcastle - note the extra work involved in producing keg beer rather than cask beer
Virtual Tour of Arkells Brewery explaining exactly how British style beer - top fermented - is brewed

Usenet and mailing lists
uk.food+drink.real-ale is the main UK newsgroup for real ale. If your Internet Service Provider doesn't provide a news feed, you can find "ufra" through Google Groups.

Miscellaneous
Historic Pub Interiors - CAMRA's National Inventory of pubs that are remarkable for their architecture and decor
Air Initiative for "practical techniques to resolve the public smoking issue"
British Beer and Pub Association home page
British Beer & Pub Association (with things like Pub Games and Pub Quiz Questions)
Kegwatch for lost and stolen casks
Pub Games - how to play them, and where to buy the kit
Opening Times magazine
SIBA (Society of Independent Brewers)
Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood
Beer in the Evening, a wonderful searchable database of pubs with various people's opinions on them
British Beermat Collectors Society
The English Public House Database, a small non-commercial group of enthusiasts interested in the history, name derivations and signs of the English Public House, and also the developers of what they hope will become the most comprehensive data base of pubs
The Inn Sign Society, explaining how pubs got their names
Arthur Chappell's Beer History page, "a personal guide to the beers I love and the beers I loathe".
And with that in mind, try the Portman Group's DrinkAware site, which has a handy Alcohol Unit Calculator
Beer4Home, "an internet service supplying cask ale to the public from smaller craft breweries" (needs latest version of Macromedia Flash Player to load)
Pub Search, a demonstration page for Microsoft MapPoint. It searches the pubs recommended by the Good Pub Guide (not to be confused with CAMRA's Good Beer Guide) and also those pubs suggested by its readers. You can also use a search facility run by the GPG itself
The Directory of UK Real Ale Breweries which aims to be "the most up to date list of UK based Real Ale Breweries available on the Internet"
The Official City of Salford site
An Unofficial Salford History site
AND - Everything you ever wanted to know about Ticking but were afraid to ask...

This page was last updated in January 2007

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