retiredmartin

July 2023. Alsager.

Part 3 of 4 of our Big Night Out in Alsager, as we walk the six steps from the Joule to the Titanic.

I’ve never heard anyone talk about Alsager as a pub town, but in the space of a minute you can go from Bass to Joules to Plum Porter, which is a holy trinity of sorts.

These bod cafe bars are popping up all over the place now,

and while I doubt they appeal to the pub heritage enthusiast anymore than the Joules estate, they’re certainly unashamedly bright and breezy and welcoming to women and families who may then be converted to the joys of real ale Inch’s cider.

This is 7pm on a Saturday. Who eats croissants at 7pm ?

It’s all very well bringing your wine bottles and mixers up to the bar, but obscuring the Plum Porter is a serious offence in Staffs. Luckily, we’re in Cheshire now.

We share a Plum Porter. Mrs RM is rather taken by it. Conversion to Bass AND Plum Porter in the same night !

I ask her if she can see the little boat on the glass, surely the most iconic drinking vessel after a Bass glass.

“No”

Glug, glug.

“Oh ! I can now !”. Simple pleasures for simple folk.

And it’s superb, cool, rich and filling. I scored it a 4 so expect it in GBG25, Si.

Mrs RM went to admire the staircase,

I went to work out which toilets were which.

Not very woke, is it ?