On the homeward stretch now, with the GBG tick, the Spoons pre-emptive, the Top 100 pub revisit, the central recommendation and the crafty keg bar in the bag. Oh, and the compulsory fleeting look at the Art Gallery, the dullest outside Cambridge. (joking, joking, though there does seem to be more cafe than exhibit space).… Continue reading Darn, another late train…
Month: December 2021
MURK PRICED IN TWO-THIRDS
Heading back to the station now, aimlessly, but I still hadn’t spent more on beer than the £12.60 for a cheap day return, which is an odd yardstick to use for when to call it a day I grant you. Having done the GBG tick, the pre-emptive Spoons, the Top 100 pub, and the Will… Continue reading MURK PRICED IN TWO-THIRDS
RECOMMENDING A PUB IN CENTRAL NOTTINGHAM
One tick, a pre-emptive Spoons, an old favourite voted into the Top 100. And six miles walked uphill (both ways) and a feta and spinach pastry (NS&SPSS 4.5). That should have been that, but I had this nagging need to find a recommendable pub in central Nottingham., which has looked a bit bare of GBG… Continue reading RECOMMENDING A PUB IN CENTRAL NOTTINGHAM
TOP 100 PUBS – THE KING WILLIAM IV, NOTTINGHAM
A long walk back from Carlton Hill to Nottingham, almost falling at the first hurdle as I spotted an obvious pre-emptive tick… But I made it back, still dry, as far as Sneinton, home of a windmill I’ve never seen and birthplace of William Booth, which I’ve never visited. I advised Blackpool Jane to do… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE KING WILLIAM IV, NOTTINGHAM
CLIMBING UP ON CARLTON HILL
I promised a forensic review of the new Beer Guide and I still haven’t produced it. But one of the main themes is “a lack of churn“, with very few new entries in many counties. Like Nottinghamshire (Spoiler : complete). Only a couple of newbies in Notts, a Proper Pub in Retford and the Brickyard… Continue reading CLIMBING UP ON CARLTON HILL
“Go in ! You know you want to”
Back in Manchester just after 7pm. A hotel room in the greatest city in the world, with no new GBG ticks for miles around. Should have stayed on the train to Blackpool. Never mind, a quick veggie curry tea in the new Bundobust Brewery, whose cask collaboration with Thornbridge is the snappily named “Impromptu Ladder… Continue reading “Go in ! You know you want to”
FOLLOW THAT SOUND
Two Wigan ticks in the bag, not bad for 40 minutes work. Let’s head back to the station and get some tea in Manchester. Just as well the German Sausage stand is closed or I’d have been sorely tempted (possibly). I can’t resist pubs down cobbled streets, either. “Just five minutes, enough for a half”… Continue reading FOLLOW THAT SOUND
REAL CRAFTY – BLIMEY, IS IT A 5 ?
On to my second tick in Wigan, sadly nowhere near the pier. All the hot GBG action these days takes place in the cobbled streets east of Mesnes Park, which means a trip through the deserted centre. The pubs look lively, though. Ah, it’s Chelsea v Man U on the telly. The Swan & Railway… Continue reading REAL CRAFTY – BLIMEY, IS IT A 5 ?
WIGAN WINNERS – THE SWAN & RAILWAY
My “Proper” readers will recall I was only in That Wigan a couple of months ago, finding it sadly a bit scruffy. Now I was back, just making the 16:48 from Piccadilly after a check-in at Ibis that took longer than the 30 seconds I allow. I remember the golden days when Travelodge just wordlessly… Continue reading WIGAN WINNERS – THE SWAN & RAILWAY
ROCHDALE’S WINTRY SUBURBS
Bamford is an affluent suburban area (pop. 9,693) within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, says Wiki. It says nothing else, not even that it now has a GBG entry under its own name ! I almost skipped this diary entry, but I knew the Tand would want to hear about beer quality in his balliwick, and he might enjoy the… Continue reading ROCHDALE’S WINTRY SUBURBS
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