Somerset Ale Trail 2018

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Aqualung prompted me to publicise the Somerset CAMRA Ale Trail 2018, so here is the list. Anyone wanting a freebie (OK, you spend a bare minimum of £70 on beer plus your travel to get a polo shirt for 20 pubs visited, plus more stuff (book token and a £50 quid meal) for 30 or 40 visited. It's on now, ends 28 May 18. I guess details are on Somerset CAMRA's web page, but I haven't looked. You get a paper 'passport' from one of the participating pubs, then each pub you drink in gives you a sticker to put in it. Like World Cup football stickers for grown-ups. Which does make you feel a bit silly asking for the sticker when there are hardened locals around. The list is:

1 The Old Pound Inn

2 The Red Lion Inn

3 Bird In Hand

4 Candlelight Inn

5 The Sexeys Arms Inn

6 Smugglers

7 The Cobblestones

8 The Rose and Portcullis

9 The Cerdic (JD Wetherspoon)

10 The York Inn

11 The Old Stagecoach Inn

12 The Carew Arms

13 The Holman Clavel Inn

14 The Firehouse

15 The Dinnington Docks

16 The Bridge Inn

17 Brent Knoll Inn

18 The Foresters Arms

19 Orchard Inn

20 The George & Pilgrim Hotel

21 Royal Oak Inn

22 The Hatch Inn

23 The Black Swan

24 The Royal Oak Inn

25 Cross Keys Inn

26 The Kings Head

27 The Globe

28 Queens Head Inn

29 The Notley Arms

30 Ring O' Bells

31 The Puriton

32 Valiant Soldier

33 The Volunteer

34 White Hart Inn

35 The Camelot

36 The Rusty Axe

37 Half Moon Inn

38 Royal Oak

39 The Plough

40 The Nags Head Tavern

41 The Maypole Inn

42 The Cotley Inn

43 The White Horse Inn

44 Rock Inn, Waterrow TA4 2AX (Add Pub submitted 6 Apr 18)

45 George Inn

46 The Dolphin Inn

47 Crossways Inn

48 The Rest and be Thankful Inn

49 Railway Inn

50 Quicksilver Mail

Happy hunting.

[bcfczuluarmy]

Think I've been in 24 of those if I added them up correctly. Hmm 2 more today and a recount I seem to be on 28... 3rd time lucky count?

[Aqualung]

Many thanks for that, it must have taken ages! Finding a pub not listed on here is a bonus. Given the CAMRA backing is this a list of lesser known real ale outlets in Somerset? My experience of Somerset pubs is very limited and the JDWs were largely uninspiring. My single memory of a killer Somerset pub was this one in the mid 80s. I've a vague recollection of farmyard creatures (ducks, geese or hens) roaming around the bar but I may have just had too much cider! It was probably just as well that we didn't have to ask a hapless passer by for directions to the village.

[oldboots]

Rock Inn

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Rock Inn

Thanks OB