Rat Race Ale House - Real Ale at Hartlepool Railway Station

RAT RACE ALE HOUSE

AT HARTLEPOOL RAILWAY STATION

Cleveland CAMRA North-East Region

Pub Of The Year 2013

733

Different beers since opening day (25th November 2009) - and counting!

We will be CLOSED

Thursday 20th JUNE

to Tuesday 2nd July inclusive,

for Provencal studies,

REOPENING WEDNESDAY 3rd July.

And... Breaking news...

We'll be closed Christmas week 2013, because The Rat doesn't do Christmas. And I'm going to France.

And finally for now... we'll probably be closed for a few days in early September, because it's Kip's birthday.

We are now

CLOSED on ALL

Sundays and Mondays.

CAMRA North-East Regional Cider Pub Of The Year 2012 and Cleveland CAMRA North-East Region PUB OF THE YEAR 2013

NOW SELLS A SMALL RANGE OF

BOTTLED

BELGIAN BEERS

Orval (6.2%)

Poperings Hommelbier (7.5%)

St. Bernardus Tripel (8.0%)

Chimay Blue (9.0%)

Westmalle Dubbel (7.0%)

St. Bernardus Abt 12 (10.0%)

Rat Race Ale House polo shirts and

gift vouchers now available

We are now open until 9pm every Saturday, even when Hartlepool United are playing

And we're now on Twitter as @ratracealehouse, but it all seems a bit pointless as there's no way I can condense the beer list down to 140 lousy, miserable characters, unless somebody out there has some bright ideas?

For more about real beer, see the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) website at: www.camra.org.uk

or for a more local view of real ale, you can find out more from Cleveland CAMRA here

Thanks to Lorna for the Rat!!

Yet more thanks to Martyn Hillier at The Butcher's Arms - click here - for giving me the idea for starting the RRA!

If you're in the vicinity of Newark-on-Trent and you need a Micropub fix, why not visit Just Beer?

Or if you're in Ramsgate and need a beer in a Micropub, there's always The Conqueror!

For those planning a food and drink trip further afield, the Rat heartily recommends visiting De Paterstafel at Watouplein 14, 8978 Watou, Belgium, for great food, excellent Belgian beer and a good night's sleep - and Watou is a great place to visit for beer!

And finally, as I can't keep up with all the Micropubs popping up all over the country, all the best examples are members of the Micropub Association

And for what it's worth, we're even on Twitter @ratracealehouse

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That means it's time for a pint!