4LINKS: GENERAL

Beer 4 Home Here's a clever idea: polypins and mini-casks of real ale sent directly from one of 10 breweries. Plus lots of other interesting beer content.

Beer Academy A not-for-profit organisation offering courses aimed at helping anyone interested in beer to develop their knowledge.

Beer Caps A site dedicated to those tops of beer bottles that most of us probably chuck away without a thought in our desire to pour the good stuff.

Beer Coasters Canada Coaster specializes in beer, wine and other beverage and drink coasters using only premium European beer mat board.

Beer in the Evening Very comprehensive site dedicated to logging fine beers and detailing where to find them. Excellent design.

Beer Expert A general interest site highlighting buying, making and tasting great beer

The Beer Festival Calendar American site which pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Beer Mad Huge database of beers - 25,936 of them at the last count - plus other info including pieces on more than 1,250 breweries.

Beer Me US-based database with an American slant but an impressively global outlook.

Beer Pages An online beer magazine focusing particularly on bottle-conditioned and world beers. Roger Protz's regular column is a must-read for the aficionado.

The Beer Shop Website for London's famous Pitfield Street emporium and the hugely successful and original Pitfield Brewery.

Beer Signs Beer advertising signs for sale through a New Jersey, United States dealer.

Beeralewhatever The website of Wescountry beer writer and editor Adrian Tierney-Jones

Beers in a Box Mail order bottled beers from a very attractive, yet straightforward and easy-to-navigate site.

Berlinside-out Berlin guide that include a section on the city's brewing industry and promotes tours

Breweriana All that stuff that fascinates you as real ale fan that isn't actually beer: track down bottles labels, beermats, ties, badges all much, much more.

The Brewery A hybrid newspaper/magazine for beer lovers, shocasing the best from the net worldwide.

The British Guild of Beer Writers Exists "to improve standards of beer writing and extend the public knowledge of beer". Most top beer scribes are members.

Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) The home of the hugely successful UK pressure group promoting real ale and standing up for the rights of drinkers.

Drinkswap Over 25,000 drink recipes with photographs, drink ingredients, and easy ways to send drink recipes to your friends or copy them for your site.

Fat Badgers One of those great labour of love websites that has grown into a fascinating and thorough independent UK pub guide.

Fruli Beer Neil Smith's impassioned homage to fruity Fruli beer, with a guide to where you can find it

Last Rounds Closing times, public transport and public conveniences listings, plus loads more useful London drinking info on this well thought out site

The Manx Real Ale Trail A week-long beer fest organised by Okells, Bushys and Old Laxey breweries, in association with the island's Department of Tourism.

Midlands Pubs A past and present tour of the Midlands in words and a photographs. A weighty but very readable academic work.

Only Fine Beer Bottled beer mail order specialists, with new brews being added all the time.

Oxford Bottled Beer Database A grand-daddy of a database with tasting notes and facts for some 2,200 beers.

Protz on Beer The great man's personal website.

Real-Ale.Net Real ale news and beer festival listings, as well as internet services, by Paul Garrard

Ruth's Beer Sampling Record Ruth Tyrrell's record of beer tasting mainly around the South East of England

The Southport Drinker The best pubs in Southport and district, plus news amd views from beer land

The Taste of Germany This site promoting German food and drink provides a good basic introduction to German beers styles

Tucker's Maltings One of Britain's oldest independent agricultural companies. The only working malthouse in the West Country, open to the public.

UK T-shirts Offering a slection of fun, amusing slogan t-shirts for the discerning ale fan

Urban 75 Excellent London-based e-zine with its fingers in a number of pies - from drugs and music to football - but with a real ale message board.

Visit a Brewery (Cask Marque) A Cask Marque-sponsored sight promoting brewery tours to get the man on the street closer to the ale production process.

Wear Your Beer Beer-branded clothing from sandals to hats and all points between, inclding T-shirts, hooded tops etc - beach towels too!

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