July 2023. New Brighton.
A professional ticker would be never been revisit a pub, however good, while there were still new GBG pubs to be ticked.
But I’m an amateur again, happy to be distracted by classics like the Magazine in New Brighton and genuinely intrigued to see if this “cult of Bass is a thing”.
You won’t get a much better case study than the Magazine.
The Wirral is no Bass stronghold, folk don’t flock to the banks of the Mersey for cask.
It’s just a quality pub in the upmarket bit of Wallasey, unpretentious and traditional.
The Bass is visible, but hardly centre stage.
But in the left hand room I see the Old Boys with Bass glasses, chatting about cheese.
“I’ve got to get my cheese out”.
Well, it’s self explanatory.
Two Old Boys at the bar hand over £8 for their £3.90 pints.
“Cheers. Take your own” he says.
Yes, the 10p tip lingers on here, and in a few Holt pubs in Salford, but where else
It’s calm, and cosy, and the Bass is a cool, tasty NBSS 4. The Cornish Bass in Tywardreath is your comparison, rather than the Seven Stars.
Harry Styles on the radio, young folk in the garden, Bass forever on the pumps.
It’ll do for me.
retiredmartin 
That bag on the seat looks suspiciously like a bowls bag -belonging to the old boys perhaps ?
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Definite probability, Pauline; the bowling green was just up the hill ! (either that or it was cheese).
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Edam – it’s hard to tell the difference.
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What a great looking pub – an absolute classic
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