pALEgrimage25 is Sunday 24 August!

This will be our ninth pALEgrimage, you think by now we'd be better at organising it but we are what we are!

The Golden Smoggies and their pALEgrimages have raised nearly £100k for Great North Air Ambulance -

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS!!

pALEgrimage totals since 2015!

2015 £3500

2016 £6900

2017 £7777.77

2018 £14,851.94

2019 £17,033.40

2020/2021 C*VID

2022 £10,282.80

2023 £15,029

2024 £21,212.12

£96, 587.03 plus £1000s from collections tubs!

pALEgrimage, you say – what’s that then?

For such a small place, we have a HUGE community and since opening in August 2014, together you have all raised thousands and thousands of pounds for various charities.

The pALEgrimage is a yearly event where teams of Smoggies leave Teesside for various breweries scattered far and wide. These breweries donate a cask or pin of ale, the pALEgrims collect it and get it back to The Smog.

So far, so easy?

Not as easy as it sounds as the pALEgrims carry their precious cargo while walking, running or cycling from their nominated brewery back to The Golden Smog with their ale.

Once all the kegs and pins are back, they are racked in the alley at The Golden Smog and the pALEgrims, their friends and family and Smoggies have ourselves a brilliant beer festival with all the donated ale.

The pALEgrims are sponsored for their endeavours and every penny of the festival ale sales goes in the charity pot too with all the donations going to Great North Air Ambulance Service.

A local band of ale lovers called The Ale Team started the pALEgrimage with a yearly walk to Masham a few years before The Smog opened but we teamed up and held our first joint pALEgrimage in May 2015, a total of £3500 was raised and we were all thrilled.

However, The Smog is an amazingly generous community as are the friends & family of our pALEgrims and the funds have climbed every year to where we are today!

We have 22 amazing breweries & pubs signed up, HUGE thank yous to -

6 Barrels

Atomic Beers

Bayonet Brewing

Brass Monkey Beer Boutique, Guisborough

Brew York

Camerons Brewery

Captain Cook Brewery

Chapel - Whitehouse St.

Crafty Monkey Brewing Co

Durham Brewery

Fifth House

Guisborough Brewery

Helmsley Brewing Co

Kopper Keg

LWC Teesside

McColls

North Riding Brewery Ltd

Orb Micropub

Smokehouse Railway Street

Three Brothers Brewing Company

Turning Point Brew Co.

Wensleydale Brewery

We already have some teams signed up but there's always room for more, please let us know if you and your pALEgrims want to be in!

ALE IN THE ALLEY - SUNDAY 24 AUGUST 2025!