On Friday 30 September, we enjoyed an evening visit to the Celt Experience Brewery at Caerphilly. A minibus conveyed some of us from Cardiff but other members found it more convenient to make their own ways from their places of work to the brewery.

We chatted with brewery owner Tom Newman, a Caerphilly lad, who spent some years across the water brewing for Butcombe before setting up his Newmans' Brewery in Bristol. He returned to Caerphilly in 2007 to set up the Celt Experience Brewery, which produces beer under both the Newmans and Celt Experience banners.

Cardiff CAMRA visited Bishops Castle in Shropshire last Saturday (9 July).

The occasion was the annual Bishops Castle Real Ale & Cider Festival, held in all the town's six pubs.

Superstitious members might have feared the worst when told we had six hours to visit six pubs ending at the Six Bells but in the event everything went well.

Bishops Castle is built on the side of a steep hill so we turned it into a gravity-assisted pub crawl by getting our driver to drop us off at the top of the hill and picking us up at the bottom.

Location

The Gwaelod Y Garth is a stone built pub in the village of Gwaelod – Y – Garth, located within the boundary of the City and County of Cardiff. The pub and village name is derived from the Welsh for “Foothills of the Garth” as that is exactly its location. It is a popular meeting place, the hub of the local community and for ramblers and cyclists, even the occasional hand gliding enthusiast, it is a popular starting and finishing point.

Spectacular views across the valley are offered from the windows and from the beer garden.