Month: February 2024

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No. 4 – THE BRITON’S PROTECTION

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February 2024. Manchester. Still on the Matthew Curtis Beer Book trail, and a fourth tick by 13:15, which sounds a bit scary when you say it like that, but we’d walked 5,000 steps by then so it was probably fine. The walk from Mr Thomas takes you past the Midland, where Mrs RM and I… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No. 4 – THE BRITON’S PROTECTION

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No. 3 – MR. THOMAS’S CHOP HOUSE

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February 2024. Manchester. Monday lunchtime in central Manchester. “Paul’s possible pubs” focused on heritage, and our 3rd of the day took us past some classic Mancunian architecture to a heritage pub I’d failed to visit. Ever. I’d failed a year ago because Mr Thomas’s Chop House was completely packed, even for drinkers, but on a… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No. 3 – MR. THOMAS’S CHOP HOUSE

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No. 2 – THE HARE AND HOUNDS

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February 2024. Manchester. Just another Manic Monday in Manchester with Mudge (hey, missed a great blog title there !). This is Paul’s long list ( I think), grouped on the right by brewery in that strange way that was fashionable before 1990 and the Beer Orders. In truth, I’d popped to Piccadilly mainly to catch… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No. 2 – THE HARE AND HOUNDS

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No.1 – THE MILLSTONE

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February 2024. Manchester. Tickers gotta tick, tick, tick, tick etc. And what better to tick after the whole GBG than the rather wonderful Guide to Manchester Beer (Matthew Curtis/CAMRA). Loads of great pubs to revisit, lots of southern Manc bars I’ve never been to, and the best thing of all is there won’t be a… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK No.1 – THE MILLSTONE

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 46 – THE WEST MIDLANDS

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One of my favourites, but a ridiculously large county to pick half a dozen pubs from. Why don’t CAMRA split out Greater Stourbridge into a separate chapter, and give the whole area below Birmingham centre to Warwickshire, hmmm. Let’s start by annoying the Great Western fan boys; Wolverhampton – The Stile Yes, the Great Western… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 46 – THE WEST MIDLANDS

IT’S TAMWORTH, NOT COTON. GET OVER IT.

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February 2024. “Coton”. Tamworth. The Good Beer Guide is a delight, but it has a quaint view of geographic labelling. Not just the decision to divide the country into regions, but the way some pubs get stuck under their hamlets within towns, like the Fox in Coton. Sticking the Fox under “Coton” rather than Lichfield,… Continue reading IT’S TAMWORTH, NOT COTON. GET OVER IT.

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 45 – WARWICKSHIRE

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“From bucolic Bedworth, affluent Atherstone and naughty Nuneaton with their £2.30 Pedi, to languid Leamington Spa with its £4 Purity, and thence to the Cotswolds town where I headed now.” RM 2019 Getting to the BIG counties now. Warwickshire punches above its weight, the dreadful Stratford-upon-Avon apart, though I always imagine Rugby to be a… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 45 – WARWICKSHIRE