Beer Breaks in Britain

Combine your thirst for great British travel and good quality beer with this refreshing guide to 30 of Britain''s best beer scenes. The British have always championed ale, and now a new generation are enthusiastically embracing beer, too. Like many of their fellow older beer fans, this new generation of aficionados loves to travel and rediscover home shores. Modern brewers are becoming increasingly creative in their offerings and a growing number of craft beer bars, brewery tap rooms, festivals and micropubs have sprung up in towns and cities across the country, embracing local produce and sustainability. Beer Breaks in Britain joins the dots between beer and travel, exploring the British beer scene and also suggesting what to do in between pints (halves and thirds). The book focusses on 30 destinations across the country, steering visitors to expert selections including breweries, tap rooms, pubs and bars, beer festivals and circuits, highlighting local brews and live tastings with knowledgeable locals. The book equips readers with everything they need to know to make the most of their visit to the destination - delving into each area''s history and culture, and natural and built attractions, as well as giving ideas about where to eat and stay; everything you''ll need for a truly unforgettable trip.>

Auteur

Kate Simon is a journalist with more than 35 years' experience of working in national newspapers and magazines and was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012. She has spent more than 20 years sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, including hotels, bars and restaurants and visitor attractions, assessing them from a traveller's point of view. She writes about travel for the national press, including the Telegraph, The Guardian, and The I. Kate is the author of two travel books, How To Pack For Any Trip (Lonely Planet, 2016) and Slow Travel Cheshire (Bradt, 2018). She runs her own tourism PR and content consultancy, Traveltappers.co.uk, specialising in supporting the UK travel industry. She is also a co-founder of Equality in Tourism, a charity dedicated to ensuring women have an equal voice in global tourism.

Contenu

The below 12 locations have already been selected and the final 8 will be finalised as the authors progress with the book's research and writing and in order to ensure a wide geographical spread.

Introduction
1 Brighton
2 Hackney & East London
3 Chester
4 Leeds to Keighley
5 Kent Hop Fields & Thanet
6 Manchester
7 Peak District
8 Norwich & Norfolk
9 Bristol & Bath
10 Birmingham & the Black Country
11 Pembrokeshire and the Gower
12 Edinburgh

Introduction
This will set out the proposition of the book and the reasons for our pick of locations.

Each location chapter will include:

• An overview of the local beer and brewing scene
• An overview of the visitor scene
• Descriptions of breweries that welcome visitors
• Descriptions of the best places to drink beer: pubs, bars, tap rooms etc
• Descriptions of non-beer sights, attractions, and activities in the location
• Descriptions of recommended places to eat and stay, at different price levels
• Box-outs featuring interviews with personalities on the beer and travel scenes, potted histories, quirky stories about the destination and its beer, local pub/bar/tap trails and walks and other subjects arising from our research.