Last weekend we had a trip to the CAMRA (CAMpaign for Real Ale) National Winter Ales Festival in Manchester. We decided that we would travel up by train on Saturday morning and have a couple of beers en-route from the train station to the Festival. Thus decided, we planned a little pub crawl using a current copy of the Good Beer Guide and a map of Manchester City centre ~ we had all chosen pubs we particularly wanted to visit, whether for beer range or because the pub sounded interesting. One pub we all agreed on was The Circus Tavern. We found it on the map and found that it would only take ...
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