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White Lion Inn to John O’ Groats

Two Welsh Rarebit Minis travelled 1,200 miles to the most northerly point in the UK in memory of a much missed member of the club. They reached the most northerly point of Dunnet Head and then visited John O’Groats before travelling home. The five-day road trip, which started last Sunday, from the White Lion Inn, Llanelian, was…

GBBF 2012 Olympia

The Great British Beer Festival 2012 is taking place next week August 7th - 11th at Olympia in London. Simon and Esme will be visiting on Tuesday. We strongly recommend anyone who loves their Beer or Cider to go along and sample the largest selection you will ever get the opportunity to find under one roof. Over…

White Lion Inn on Twitter

We have now joined the Twitter world. Follow us at www.twitter.com/whitelioninn1. We look forward to welcoming you as followers. Simon just can't stop tweeting. You can now get all our news from the website, Facebook and Twitter.

Good Beer Guide 2012

CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2012 received recognition as one of the best beer books in the world in Paris in March as part of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Among entries from 162 countries The Good Beer Guide was one of four finalists for the "Best Beer Book in the World" and won second overall in…

Camra Website

CAMRA the Campaign for Real Ale have relaunched its website for members and non members with many new features. The "What's Brewing" and "Beer" publications are now available as .pdf downloads and can also be viewed on iPads. Later they plan to extend this to Kindles and Andriod phones. The website automatically gives members a list of events…

New Year’s Eve 2011 Report

A brilliant night was had  by all at our New Years Eve Party. Richie Dews did us proud and one of our visitors was overwhelmed to be serenaded by Richie wishing her a Happy Birthday. At midnight Simon and Richie gave us a Trumpet and Guitar duet rendering of Auld Lang Syne. We had visitors from far and…

Poppy Appeal, a record

The Royal Britsh Legion would like to thank all our customers for their very generous donations to this year's Poppy Appeal. This year the British Legion hope to raise £40,000,000 through the Poppy Appeal in order to continue their now 90 years of helping ex servicemen; to date the figure has reached £23,600,000. Every small donation helps and…

What’s Brewing

Simon and Nina are delighted that their award night party in September celebrating 20 years continuous  recommendation in the Good Beer Guide has been featured in What's Brewing this month. What's Brewing is the newspaper circulated to all CAMRA members in the UK with a circulation of over 100,000. CAMRA is this year celebrating 40 years as a campaigning…

Colwyn Bay in Bloom Award

Simon & Nina receive their "Colwyn Bay in Bloom" award from the Mayor of Colwyn Bay, Councillor Mrs Margaret Edwards, at an event held recently at Colwyn Bay Cricket Club. This year there was a joint first prize and the White Lion was delighted to received the next highest prize. Nina said that she was determined to…