“BLAME IT ON THE IMPERIAL STOUT” (NOT A TAYLOR DAYNE TRACK)

November 2023. Heaton Moor. Stockport.

Or is it Mauldeth ? Or Lower Burnage ? Or Lesser Didsbury ? Check next year’s GBG to find out.

The road from the Bottle to the Beer Shop is paved with very South Manchester sounding bar names.

One of the duller 14 minute walks,

but The Beer Shop was a corker. I think.

I say think because, and you’ll not believe this, I had a pint of the Torrside. Look at that price;

Actually, it was only 6.8%. That’s basically a boy’s bitter in 2023. Just ask Duncan.

It’s probably a crime in Stockport CAMRA to NOT have a Torrside, and it was probably a 4, I can’t remember. Which makes the steady hand taking these photos a surprise.

10 points (where 100 points = 1 pint) for identifying Quosh’s Belgian beer. Quosh doesn’t follow rules.

Loads to admire here,

including a stellar vinyl collection running from Mahler to Taylor Dayne.

Disappointingly, the ultra-rare Mahler/Dayne collaboration 10″ (“Taylor sings Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen“) wasn’t available, but you can have too much fun, I feel.

Even in Stockport on a Friday night.

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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

21 thoughts on ““BLAME IT ON THE IMPERIAL STOUT” (NOT A TAYLOR DAYNE TRACK)”

    1. As well as the Stockport-south Manchester border round there – being just inside the former, the Beer Shop is definitely in one of the Heatons, I’d say Moor rather than Mersey – postcodes are also a help here: if it’s M19, it’s Burnage, if it’s M20, it’s Didsbury, whatever people selling houses and their estate agents might say. Border extension of course happens all over the place for social and financial reasons: Burnage becomes Didsbury, North Reddish becomes Heaton Chapel, Davenport becomes Bramhall, and Adswood becomes Davenport at one end and Cheadle Hulme at the other.

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  2. When I lived in Didsbury in the 1980s that was it. No one talked about West or East. It was just Didsbury or Not Didsbury. I think that Not Didsbury began just after Ye Olde Cock.

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      1. I think, to the good burghers of Didsbury, East Didsbury was no more Didsbury than Bristol Parkway is Bristol to Bristolians, Paul.

        (Estate agents may well have differed, of course.)

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  3. Never actually been to this one – a combination of limited and inconvenient hours and not being close to anywhere else, so it doesn’t easily fit on a CAMRA pub crawl.

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  4. That looks like an old oversized 24 ounce handled glass.
    Noting that it didn’t have a ‘government stamp’ might have confirmed that you were served over a pint which is no longer illegal.

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      1. Main trouble with pubs is – like trains and buses generally – they’re owned by them as don’t use ’em.

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  6. At least – in our confused little country – the American fashion for having two surnames instead of a first and second name hasn’t really caught on.

    Do some people think that it makes them sound twice as serious or important?

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