AN independent pub and micro-brewery is gearing up for its annual October beer festival at the weekend.
The White Swan at Stokesley aims to serve more than 40 different real ales and ciders over its three day festival.
The festival begins on Friday (October 24) and finishes on Sunday (October 26).
The 18th century public house will be matching up its beers with locally made pies from Petch’s Butchers in Great Ayton.
A spokesperson for the pub said: “Petch’s have put some of our black porter stout in some of the pies and created mini ploughman’s type pork pies, so they should go well with the beers on offer.
“We get through a lot of the different ales quite quickly and once they’re gone, they’re gone, so it’s first-come, first-served.”
The pub is a brewer house, producing its own beer in the Captain Cook Brewery, based in one of the Swan’s outhouses.
As well as selling beers from its own brewery and others from the region, it will be putting on guest ales collected by landlord Steve Irvine.
Mr Irvine has gathered many of the other beers after travelling to meet other micro-brewers, looking for interesting ales and then swapping a keg of his own ale.
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