Simon and Esme and a party from the White Lion had a great day at the CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival at Olympia two weeks ago.
In addition to sampling various Real Ales and Ciders at the exhibition the party, as part of their research, also visited The Old Ship, a Youngs Pub on the river…
So Mo Farah, our double Olympic Champion, is walking down the street in Kingston on Thames, his home town, when who should he meet but that famous daughter of Simon and Nina, and Llanelian, Esme Cole, who is currently studying Disaster Management at Kingston University.
After congratulating him we trust she invited him to come up…
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…
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…
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.
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 research shows local pubs play an integral role right the way through the lives of people in local communities.
Since 2008, over 4,500 pubs have closed across the nation, with licensees battered by high beer tax, greedy pub companies, soaring overheads, and discount booze deals from major supermarket chains.
Community Pubs Month has therefore been launched…
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…
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…