No, I hadn’t forgot about the contractually obligated monthly review, I’ve been “travelling” (shock) and couldn’t do the travel map. Here’s September;
A hectic month, starting listening to weird music in a field on Cranborne Chase,
ending in a new classic in Stamford, and taking it a rich collection of pubs in Greater Rotherham.
Those were in the new, shiny, Good Beer Guide (Emmerdale edition) that dropped (ugh) a couple of weeks ago, unleashing several hundred Proper Pubs into the lives of people who visit pubs.
Like the Boatmans Rest near Barnsley,
perhaps not a classic boozer but absolutely packed with value diners and featuring the best decorated walls of the month.
The walls were the star at my Pub of the Month,
Manchester’s Peer Hat only coming to my attention because I have a son living 2 minutes walk from it.
If this highlights post had been published late (after midnight) it would have triggered a refund to my Patreon readers virtually equivalent to my C*******s shopping budget. The biggest winners would have been the Southworths, seen here eating their long-awaited Chung Hwa Singapore Rice with dining implements that are all the rage in fashionable Minneapolis and Chicago.
The cask was good in The Sun, and pretty much everywhere else, but the surprising winner of Beer of the Month was what the kidz call a Hop Monster from trad dad Whim in the Blake.
That was the beer that prompted “Casual Sexism” headlines on Mrs RM’s blog that evening.
Mrs RM was treated in September. She’s got a new toilet for the campervan, allowing us to camp in tourist honeypots like (checks notes) Grantham.
If she plays her cards right, I might arrange an overnighter in Mansfield later in October.
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