January 2024. Longridge.
Perhaps the shortest post* since the Golden days of 2015, as I nip in a Lancashire micro for a quick half. Just like in 2022 when I was frantically finishing the Guide.
The West Lancs small pubs, in particular, are virtually indistinguishable from each other in style and I don’t say that as a bad thing..
When 61, or even a youthful 59, it’s good to be able to walk a few steps down your high street, find a bar where the cheery landlady says “Afternoon, George, the usual ?”,
and find your pint of Reedley Hallows costs £3.20 and you can be warm for an hour and listen to the music of your youth.
Good beer, too (NBSS 3+). And clean toilets.
And a seat where your feet touch the floor. Never forget the importance of a seat where your feet touch the floor.
*Yep, 151 words.
retiredmartin 
The music of our – very tender – youth was sometimes like this:
They don’t make ’em like that any more…
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Micropubs are part of the journey back to beer houses? #future of cask?
On the ‘feet touching the floor’ issue – In a pub the other week (a Whitbread ‘Table Table’ dining pub) I found the worst kind of bar stool. The kind with no foot rest, leaving you legs dangling painfully in mid-air!
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Those small taps vary wildly in style aren’t they ? Down your bit of Hampshire you’ve got the trendy city centre ones in Southampton, the brewery taps, appealing to a much wider demographic than the originals in Herne and Thanet.
I DO NOT LIKE DANGLING !
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Definitely, Southampton has a great variety, from book shops to butchers.
It’s the Witches Brew terrace house that makes me think there is a chance that beer houses will return. One day it will be as famous as the Herne micro.
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