PLUM PORTER IN MATLOCK

October 2023. Matlock.

I’m ticking the new GBG in singles, except I’m not “ticking” it as there’s no way I’ll manage a second Guide completion under current parental circumstances. But the GBG is full of gems, including a Plum Porter in Matlock, just over the hour on the train from Sheff.

I was surprised the trains were running after the downpour of the weekend. This pic shows what was once Chesterfield;

Matlock was ticking over nicely with half-term families kitted out in boots and Barbour for their ride on the cable car, followed by cake.

Matlock is a bit workaday shopwise, but packed with craft bars and micros this last few years.

Not sure where Titanic’s new bod fits in,

all industrial chic,

and toffee sponge.

Like the cafe bars is east Stafford and Alsager, it’s more cafe than pub, and I worry how much trade those pumps are getting.

But the indestructible Plum Porter never disappoints, a chewy 3.5,

and a couple of single females come in to examine the pumps before going for the Plum.

I’m visiting Stone later this week with some Pub Men, and note Stafford Paul hasn’t put their new bod on the itinerary. Is it because these Titanic places are a bit generic, I wonder ?

Almost next door Twenty Ten offers sours, and the bottom half of a mannequin.

I needed neither, and the rest of the Matlock shops similarly failed to entice the 58 year old Pub Man.

But somewhere up that steep hill lies something I might like...

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9 thoughts on “PLUM PORTER IN MATLOCK”

  1. I popped into bod earlier this year but couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to even post a pic on Twitter. I made the mistake of having a truly awful Titanic craft offering, and really couldn’t see the appeal of the place to the male of the species.

    The beer across the road at Pointing Dogs was infinitely better with a bit more of a pubby atmos’. Stay on the train and go to Belper is of course the pubman’s recommendation.

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  2. Martin,
    But might it be that “the indestructible Plum Porter never disappoints” because we can’t quite get beyond the plums to taste the beer ?
    Yes, they are “a bit generic” but my likely schedule is with me being too old now for getting round all Stone’s pubs and I was about to explain that “I intend mainly getting round the pubs of fifty years ago but am of course open to other suggestions for after about 2pm from the three of you who have travelled four or eight times further than me as long as the number of pubs doesn’t increase much”.

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    2. I don’t know what cider aficionados think of that Ribena-flavoured stuff, but should beeries think of plum porter alike, Paul?

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    3. Martin,
      I don’t know when you’ll be on your way but I’ll probably be in Stone earlier than I first thought in which case I should manage a pre-Wetherspoon pint of Titanic in the Bod around 10.30am.

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