Boots And Beer Festival Back!

Here's an early, early advance date for your beer diary - Brasher and Black Sheep are once again running the annual Boots and Beer Walking Festival in Wensleydale this September.

A long way off you might say, and you'd be right, but with only 250 pre-bookable places up for grabs, it might be an idea to get your partipation in fast. We popped over for a day at last year's festival and it was a brilliant, relaxed event with independent North Yorkshire brewers Black Sheep the perfect partners for a load of thirsty walkers.

The organisers provide a choice of 12 self-guided walks ranging from 5-15 miles and compiled by Mark Reid, author of the Inn Way guide books and, just possibly, passing conveniently close to a number of pubs. You can walk independently or as part of a group and there's full back up with checkpoints and sweepers provided making it an ideal event for newcomers to walking.

Participants also get a goody bag including commemorative tee-shirt and a pub trail collector card (to help you collect pubs?) and there's a Saturday-night Boots and Beer Bash with live entertainment, two-course meal, barrels of Black Sheep and a charity auction.

Date is the weekend of September 12-14 and a full weekend's participation costs £30 - that's £15 for the festival tickets and £15 for the Saturday night bash. As it's a non-profit making event, any surplus will be donated to the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.

For more information and booking call 0191 516 5776. Also see the following web sites:

Brasher

Black Sheep Brewery

The Inn Way guide books