August 2024. Stockport.
Right, let’s tick the Manc* book.
“Modern pub” reckons Matthew,
who tells you all the stuff I skip on this blog.
I like the variety of pubs you get squeezed around the market and the Underbanks, and I’ll never say a bad word about the Petersgate while they follow me and City and seem all round great guys.
But wouldn’t it be lovely if they put the Bass on permanent, rather than taunting me with the picture on the wall.
Such is life. They’ve got great beer under £4, which amazed my youngest lad when I told him,
and my notes show 5 pints of NBSS 4 over the years, rather like Sheffield’s Beer House I just wrote about.
The Black Edge Stout is sensational, silky and chewy, though opinions on that chunky glass will be divided.
Loads of groups in on Saturday, all on pints,
and I almost stayed for a can of hazy, grapefruity, blueberry murk to show Blackpool Jane ahead of her own visit.
But a ticker must reman focused, which is why I headed straight for the nearby Spoons, where I saw this horrendous queue,
and realised the error of my ways, and headed down to the Banks.
*Yes, yes, I know Stockport is in Cheshire
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First visit – early January and not reopened after the Christmas closure.
Second visit – seemed unwelcoming.
Maybe I’ll be third time lucky – not that I’ve any idea when that might be as I don’t get to Stockport often and when I do there’s plenty of proper old pubs I really like instead.
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Third time lucky ?
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Well yes, I think I was unlucky the first two times. However awkward seating, unknown beers and the intermittency of Bass mean I will never rate it as highly as I know many other drinkers do.
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When we’ve got our youthful excitement under control we might consider a permanent Bass line – but there’s so many beers out there..
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Oh go on, be daring !
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