Around the UK in 80 Beers Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fuller's

Fuller's is based in Chiswick, West London, on a riverside site where there has been a brewery since at least 1650. Its beers have won the Campaign for Real Ale's "Champion Beer of Britain" award five times, more than any other brewery.

Answer: Woodeforde's

Woodeforde's brewery is situated in the picturesque Norfolk village of Woodbastwick. Wherry has won many awards, including Champion Beer of Britain in 1997.

Answer: Baz's Super Brew

Baz's Bonce Blower is, as the name suggests, also brewed by Parish. With an ABV of between 10-12%, it is sometimes claimed to be the strongest regularly-brewed cask ale in the UK, although Abbeydale's Last Rites, at 11.5%, is also a contender. Robinson's Old Tom is a relative weakling, at 8.5%. Anything over about 8% ABV is sometimes classed as a "barley wine", and is better drunk as if it were wine - sipped, rather than downed in one!

Answer: Masham

Masham is also home to the Black Sheep Brewery, set up in 1992 by Paul Theakston, who was dismayed at the loss of independent control of his family brewery after a series of takeovers. The good news is that the original Theakston's has recently returned to family ownership after a period under the control of a string of multinational corporations, which led to many of its beers being brewed in Newcastle.

Answer: Unst, Shetland Islands

All of these places in Scotland are pretty remote (and have breweries), but (as a knowledge of UK geography would probably have enabled you to guess), the furthest north of them is Unst, one of the Shetland Islands. It has been home since 1997 to the Valhalla Brewery.

Answer: Felinfoel

Felinfoel, which can be found in the town of that name in Carmarthenshire, was founded in 1830. In the 1930s, it became the first brewery in Europe to produce canned beer (a distinctly dubious claim to fame, in my view). There is a long-standing joke that its name is pronounced "feeling foul", because of how you feel after drinking its beer.

Answer: Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning has won many awards, both in its draught and bottle-conditioned versions, and is now widely available throughout the UK. Some people, however, are of the view that it no longer tastes as good as it used to.

Answer: Railways

Beers brewed by Cottage either currently or in the past include Golden Arrow, Broadgauge Bitter, Deltic Diesel, Evening Star, Full Steam Ahead, GWR, Mallard, Midnight Express ... I think you get the general idea. The Cotleigh Brewery, also from Somerset, names many of its beers after birds, while the now sadly defunct Kitchen Brewery of Huddersfield produced a large range of beers with names such as Bungling Beetroot, Gruesome Grape, Pert Pear and Tormented Turnip.

Answer: Olympia Exhibition Centre

The Great British Beer Festival is, as its name suggests, CAMRA's flagship event, at which over 450 different beers from breweries all over the UK (and further afield) are available. Attempting to sample them all is probably not a good idea, even in a week.

The first official GBBF took place in 1977 at Alexandra Palace in North London. Venues in subsequent years included Leeds (Queen's Hall), Birmingham (Bingley Hall), and Brighton (Metropole Hotel), but it returned to London in 1991 at the Docklands Arena.

After 14 years at Olympia, in 2006 it moved to the larger and more accessible venue of Earls Court.

Answer: Stoat Through the Mangle

Side Pocket for a Toad is brewed by the Tring Brewery of Hertfordshire; Pressed Rat and Warthog comes courtesy of Triple FFF from Alton in Hampshire, while the Wolf Brewery of Attleborough in Norfolk came up with Granny Wouldn't Like It. Stoat Through the Mangle is my own invention, honest.