I'm lucky enough to have a few very good local breweries on my doorstep. Langhams is the closest, really a micro brewery, but since taking on a new brewer a few years back they've shot up in my estimation. Interestingly this brewer previously worked for another local brewery by the name of Ballards. Both Ballards and Langhams (especially Ballards, who are now defunct) at the time made pretty mediocre beers. Since he started at Langhams, it's like he's been 'let off the leash'! A whole range of simply incredible beers.
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The larger local one is Hepworth- situated in a new build complex they brew for a lot of other people, and their warehouse shop is well worth a visit. Russian Stout is one of my favourites, more a barely wine than a stout but delicious. They do some pretty good alcohol free beers too, including a milk stout.
I just don't get the hype about Guinness. Anyone can add nitrogen to a pint to make it 'oooh, so creamy!'. Behind this cult-like facade of marketing and special dispensing machiney lies an insipid, mass produced beer with no flavour.