For the second year running, the Brains Brewery stand at the Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival is featured on Beer Lens. It was also featured this time last year. You can read a review of the festival on Travels with Beer.

It's somewhat of a tradition for the Otley Brewing Co. staff to get the company logo painted on their faces at the Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival. You can read a review of the festival on Travels with Beer.

This is how the excellent Welsh brewery, Otley Brewing Co., turn up to beer festivals. This particular beer festival was the 2010 Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival held in Cardiff, Wales.

The Goat Major is a Brains Brewery owned pub located in the centre of Cardiff just across the road from Cardiff Castle. It dates from 1813 and has been known as the Goat Major since 1995.

This impressive ceramic bar can be found at the Brains Brewery-owned Golden Cross in Cardiff, Wales. The pub dates to 1903 and the original ceramic bar is one of just two in Wales and one of only 20 in the UK. The pub is classed by some as the most impressive in the whole of Wales and it is in the top 10 most unspoilt pubs in the UK. To get this shot a foreign cleaner let me in before the pub opened and I took a sneaky shot. YOu can view more shots of the interior o nthe CAMRA Heritage Pubs website.

This is the Brains stand that greets you when entering the Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival. Unfortunately, the other half of Beer Lens (@shotbykim) couldn't attend.

A lone drinker enjoying one of the many beers on offer at Fagin's Ale & Chop House in Taffs Well, Cardiff.

Barocco in Cardiff has already been featured on Beer Lens before but here's the pub from a different angle. Note the patriotic statue behind the bar.

A selection of lager pumps at Copa of Cardiff, a continental bar located in the heart of the city.

Brains beer lineup at Terra Nova in Cardiff Bay, Wales. These are some of the best beers out there in my opinion. I especially love the Brains Dark.