Zetland Guest Brewery Festival

The Zetland Hotel (white van optional)

The Zetland Hotel is the second closest pub to my home. It is a large, comfortable and friendly suburban pub with two large separate rooms, and it also has a small room suitable for meetings. It is the last remaining pub in Southport with a bowling green, which is extremely popular and permanently booked up. It also has a large beer garden. Once a Burtonwood pub, it is now owned by Marstons and has a changing range of two or three real ales. It is in the 2014 CAMRA Good Beer Guide and has won a Community Pub award from the local CAMRA branch.

The beer range will be rather bigger next weekend when they will be putting on their Guest Brewery Festival, which runs from 23rd to the 26th May. Prices will start at £2.30, with a try before you buy policy. Here's the beer list:

• Okells 1907 4.5%.
• Springhead Black Tom 3.9%.
• Fullers Chiswick Bitter 3.5%.
• Titanic English Glory 4.5%.
• Adnams Ghost Ship 4.5%.
• York Guzzler 3.6%.
• Hook Norton Lion 4.0%.
• Thwaites Magic Sponge 4.1%.
• St Austell Proper Job 4.5%.
• Upham Punter 4.0%.
• Purity Pure Gold 3.8%.
• Bateman's Yella Belly Gold 3.9%.

The Zetland is at 53 Zetland Street, Southport, PR9 0RH. It is about 2/3 of a mile from Southport railway station.

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