June 2024. Manchester.
Perhaps one of the most unsung pubs in the city, behind the Nags Head and Rising Sun (never been in those).
I nearly went in this classic,
but at the golden hour (5) it was just the wrong side of busy, so I’ll do it justice next time.
The Peveril is a real yo-yo entry in the actual Beer Guide, in contrast I can only recall the Rain Bar in the GBG a little while after opening,
but Lee’s Mancunian flagship (or is it Gulliver’s ?) still feels classy and thriving almost 20 years on.
A shame that Manchester’s pubs dwell a bit too much on the past;
Tony Wilson never did.
Nice friendly young service, immaculate looking pint of the Bitter,
and if I might have stayed inside while ticking the pub, this room looked a good bet,
but now I’m revisiting for the Matt Curtis guide I reckon the seats overlooking the canal are the only seats in town now that Spring has arrived (in June).
A youthful crowd, and look round for evidence that young women are drinking pints of cask in 2024.
You know, I think I spotted one (1).
This surveillance will be the undoing of me, I tell you.
retiredmartin 
The Jolly Angler was a Hydes pub. Lees bitter is an excellent drink.
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My error, corrected. Both excellent. Not sure that Lees has a flagship in central Manchester, though Gulliver’s is a great little music venue. What would have been Lees equivalent of the Jolly Angler ?
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Minders Arms near the brewery
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In Chadderton ? Yes, plenty of good pubs north west of centre as Tandleman will confirm.
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JW Lees’ flagship pub in Manchester city centre is the Founder’s Hall on Albert Square (the recently refurbished former Dutton’s, which they opened there about a decade ago).
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Of course it is, and in my mind that was Hyde’s, not Lees There you go, interchangeable.
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Matthew, I didn’t get in last time I went as it opened later than I thought. By this February I’d discovered the Millstone which is much better.
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thoughts on that type of pint glass? They always seem odd to me.
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Not for me aesthetically but they seem to suit the beer !
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My first visit in many years but I had a nice pint of Lees’s Bitter there as the seventh and penultimate pub on my first of three days in Manchester last February.
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“What would have been Lees equivalent of the Jolly Angler ?” Certainly neither the John Willie Lees in the Arndale Centre or the Rembrandt in the gay quarter which I remember as their only two central pubs.
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Cloudy pint??
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“My beer’s a bit cloudy”
“What d’you expect for £4, thunder and lightning ?”
Only in The Rain Bar !
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Probably more cloudy photography, Steve 😉
It was fine.
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Nice looking pub! The name gave me the expectation of a modern look and I was pleasantly surprised. Always look inside!
Dick
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Used to be an umbrella factory (I think). Looks pubby enough, like the smarter pubs in central Newcastle.
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It rains in England?
Dick
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Never on the righteous.
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Or should I ask, it no longer rains in England?
Dick
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Stockport for hats. Manchester for umbrellas.
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