The new Beer Guide entries in Lancashire pretty much mirror those in Notts. Female friendly micropubs with gin.
Rossendale in particular seems likely to keep us tickers busy for years working out micro opening hours.
Fine with me, the B6232 between Haslingden and Blackburn is one of our great roads.
The Dog in Belthorn is a Community-owned Pub, popular with CAMRA but not always as wonderful for outsiders as you’d think.
Community ownership can mean locals treating it as their personal fiefdom, sprawling out their dogs and children and Sunday Times to make entry as difficult as possible for visitors.
That’s not true of the Dog, where it’s just our canine friends forming the obstacle course.
I enter the pub, and this is beyond a joke now, to the strains of Dire Straits.
If you can identify the track from this clip you win a pint of Thwaites Smooth.
I DID recognise Antmusic, though Dog Eat Dog would have been more appropriate.
Rather scarier than dog licking, it’s Burnley’s finest homebrew.
To its credit, the Pale was cool and tasty. But still Reedley Hallows.
And if you had to self isolate here, at least you’ve got a box of Roses as well as beer and Pringles to keep you going for two weeks.
retiredmartin 
Didn’t you see Peter and the Atomic Valley previously, supporting Kangaroo Air Force Ventilator?
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I suppose that community ownership of the freehold means that it is, literally, their fiefdom 😀
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There’s eggs, beans, coffee and soup to keep you going, as well as beer and Pringles. Plus a stack of Sharpe to get stuck into once you’ve finished Peter and the Atomic Valley. Two weeks’ self isolation begins to appeal…
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Speak for yourself, Bill. I’d go mad after 20 minutes 😱
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WordPress doesn’t seem to like posts published via my mobile, Bill. I’ll enable them on my laptop later.
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Are you not a fan of community owned boozers?
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It depends if they (and their canine friends) welcome strangers !
Some feel more like private dinner parties than boozers.
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Ah right…I’ve only been to the spotted cow in Holbrook which was decent
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Decent pub and beer, but I have to say it was a bit of a kennel on my visit.
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Too many dogs = pain in the arse!
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