Beer Breaks in Britain, 9781844867004
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Explore Britain’s best beer scenes: travel, taste, and discover local brews.
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Beer Breaks in Britain

30 places to explore and drink good beer

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    28 July 2025

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Summary

Beer Breaks in Britain: A Refreshing Guide to the Best Brews and British Scenes

Combine your thirst for great British travel and good quality beer with this refreshing guide to 30 of Britain’s best beer scenes. With a foreword by Marverine Cole, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and beer sommelier.

The definitive guide to exploring places and drinking good beer - The British Guild of Beer Writers

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844867004
ISBN-10:1844867005
Author:Kate Simon, Phil Mellows
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Conway
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:28 July 2025
Weight:597g
Dimensions:234mm x 154mm x 22mm
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Critics Review

The definitive guide to exploring places and drinking good beer * The British Guild of Beer Writers *[A] valuable addition to our library … The hard work has been done for you in this book – John Cryne * CAMRA *Life’s too short to drink bad beer – or to miss out on this fantastic read! – Marverine Cole, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and beer sommelierThis timely guide – penned as British cask and craft enjoys an ongoing revival – offers expertly curated itineraries for those who like beer or travel, or indeed both, taking readers to some of Britain’s loveliest corners. A book worth having to hand for every British trip. – Sarah Barrell * National Geographic Traveller (UK) *Superb * Daily Record *We need more books that celebrate not only beer, but its place in enjoying a more holistic experience around the UK, and this does a great job of exactly that. – Melissa ColeTravel broadens the mind especially if you’ve got a beer in the hand, as this inspirational, educative and thirst-provoking guide from two writers at the top of their game demonstrates. – Adrian Tierney-Jones, author of A Pub For All Seasons

About The Author

Kate Simon

Kate Simon has worked as a journalist in national newspapers and magazines for 40 years. She was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012 and has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph and The i. She has spent more than a quarter of a century sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, assessing them from a traveller’s point of view, and has been a judge for both travel writing and tourism industry competitions. Kate is the co-author of two previous books, How To Pack For Any Trip (Lonely Planet, 2016) and Slow Travel Cheshire (Bradt, 2018). She is a co-founder of Equality in Tourism, a charity dedicated to ensuring women have an equal voice in global tourism.

Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has written about beer and pubs for industry and consumer titles for more than 35 years. He has been a judge for The Publican Awards, and later the Great British Pub Awards, since 1998. As a journalist for the Brewery Manual he has closely followed the dramatic developments in the UK beer market during the past decade. His Politics of Drinking blog helps satisfy his obsession with alcohol policy and he has lately become a regular columnist for the hospitality industry newsletter Propel.

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