[BaggieSteve]

I live in the Scottish Borders and we have a number of small breweries locally; the best is definitely the Tempest brewery just outside Melrose. When I first moved to Scotland in 1981, it was a real desert for beer (the usual Scottish & Newcastle and Tennents and little else) but, along with the rest of the UK, there has been a growth in small independent breweries....and, of course, we've given the world Brewdog

Growing up in Birmingham, as TalkSaft says, it was either M&B or Ansells, with the occasional Banks's if we ventured beyond B71. Since moving away, ironically, I've discovered Holdens, Bathams and Enville, solely by stacking the car up when I drive home to see family. If I had to pick one, it would have to be Bathams......nectar!