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.
retiredmartin 
I’m pleased you enjoyed the Beer Shop (which its previous owner used to insist was in Heaton Mersey, by the way).
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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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Thanks Matthew, I’ll take that as definitive (today).
NB I’m fairly sure I saw the Beer Shop listed under Heaton Mersey somewhere (not the GBG App though).
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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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Etu,
In time it might drop the East and West, just as Berlin has.
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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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So West Didsbury was the proper Didsbury ?
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Good heavens no, that’s Withington.
Bing maps have it right Paul, even if Google don’t.
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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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Yes, it seemed to take forever from the main drag of Heaton Moor, even at our sprightly pace. Always good to see a new area represented in the Guide.
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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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The government should keep its nose out of important matters like pubs.
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Main trouble with pubs is – like trains and buses generally – they’re owned by them as don’t use ’em.
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Shouldn’t you blame it on the boogie?
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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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Difficult to see what the Belgian beer is but from the bottle shape, maybe a Lambic, possibly from Girardin?
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Andy,
Didn’t Girardin originate in Manchester ?
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Manchester Farm? 11km from Brussels?
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Aye, and Peterloo’s that place in Belgium, isn’t it, Paul?
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Yes I think so, noted for its sunset.
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Is 6.8% an Old Boys bitter?
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