Real ale and "real ale" related things, including places, pubs, gigs and posts about real ale. If you have anything to contribute concerning real ale that is not mentioned here, please chip in. Particularly if you have something to contribute concerning local pubbing or other places, home brew, ale, or appley goodness. Cheers.

This is my personal site, so if you search here for pubbing or other places it will only return real ale pubs / places I have been to or plan to go to. Fingers crossed it will return those anyway...If you are interested in a more broader search please try real ale on 'Folkestone Gerald, where I list national and even international places...

As it turns out there are no pubbing / places concerning real ale anyway. Is there something I have missed? Please let me know!

Ffffffreezing [Monday 20 December 2004]

Tonsilitis is very contagious! Hope you weren't blowing the same ballons as Jack
Pops [Tuesday 21 December 2004]

Interactive map of Folkestone [Friday 17 June 2005]

Chambers is apparently my perfect pub. Is it nice? [Friday 17 June 2005]

It's ace [Friday 17 June 2005]

Well than, next time I'm in Folkstone, I will go there then. [Monday 20 June 2005]

RE: Interactive map of Folkestone [Sunday 15 October 2006]

RE: Interactive map of Folkestone [Friday 13 July 2007]

RE: Interactive map of Folkestone [Thursday 2 August 2007]

I'm not filtering google's own "local" info [Friday 3 August 2007]

I found the sidebar stuff quite tricky actually [Friday 3 August 2007]

Beer festival on today in Dover [Friday 1 February 2008]

live music cultured pearl [Monday 4 August 2008]

Beer festival at the Ship this weekend [Thursday 21 August 2008]

AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant [Monday 15 September 2008]

Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog) [Wednesday 15 October 2008]

99p pints at Wetherspoons? [Sunday 4 January 2009]

The Jackdaw (Denton) reopens today! Open fully for food tomorrow! Nice to have some good news! [Tuesday 7 April 2009]

Is Chambers Easter Ales festival on this year? Should I talk Clare into going there tomorrow? [Friday 10 April 2009]

Home pub for sale in Southampton [Friday 10 April 2009]

@pauly #m12481 To answer myself, just driven past especially, and YES Chambers Easter Festival is on this weekend! So going there tonight! [Saturday 11 April 2009]

Real Ale and Cider Festival at Tenterden Station [Wednesday 13 May 2009]

Cereal? Soup? Bah I have mixed up the food bowls with the baby bum cleaning bowls [Thursday 11 June 2009]

RE: Cereal? Soup? [Friday 12 June 2009]

CAMRA just sent out their whole mailing list to everybody I expect to get beer related spam now :-( [Tuesday 22 September 2009]

OFT taking no action on CAMRA's beer tie complaint Man I want to go to the pub [Thursday 22 October 2009]

RE: OFT taking no action on CAMRA's beer tie complaint [Thursday 22 October 2009]

RE: OFT taking no action on CAMRA's beer tie complaint [Saturday 24 October 2009]

I knew I got my sense of parental responsibility from somewhere! [Saturday 24 October 2009]

It's national cask ale week Update from CAMRA [Tuesday 30 March 2010]

Chambers Easter Ales festival on all weekend don't forget And there is a quiz on Sunday [Tuesday 30 March 2010]

Ah of course I can go to the pub this weekend Chambers beer festival and quiz! [Tuesday 30 March 2010]

Won a prize at the Chambers Beer Festival Quiz [Monday 5 April 2010]

Please check out this folkestone pub map http://www.folkestonegerald.com/map/ recently improved (fixed) [Thursday 15 April 2010]

Canterbury Beer Festival [Thursday 8 July 2010]

Strangely racist Beer Festival crowd OK, not actually racist. Very good beer festival though, two beery thumbs up. [Sunday 25 July 2010]

RE: Strangely racist Beer Festival crowd [Tuesday 7 September 2010]

Leas Lift Beer Festival 25th and 26th Feb [Friday 18 February 2011]

Spectacular cider, man Leas Lift beer festival was good [Saturday 26 February 2011]

Further news and reviews from the FIRST Leas Lift Beer Festival Sounds like there will be a second beer festival, in the summer! [Monday 28 February 2011]

RE: Interactive map of Folkestone [Saturday 19 March 2011]

Giovanni's is there [Sunday 20 March 2011]

Chambers beer and cider festival on all weekend! [Wednesday 20 April 2011]

Get your Leas Lift Ale in Chambers [Wednesday 17 August 2011]

Leas Lift beer and cider festival this weekend! [Friday 23 September 2011]

Googies Ale Trail on again today? [Friday 7 October 2011]

Stewart Lee was very good [Sunday 29 January 2012]

Things I learned from Marsh Mash this week [Friday 3 February 2012]

Paul Clarke's blog - I live and work near Folkestone. Married to Clare and father to Harry, I am a web dev, and I like javascript, PHP, Folkestone Gerald, pubs, restaurants, history, genealogy, TV, music, popbitch, squirrels, pirates ☠, time travel, stained glass...