October 2024. Edge Lane. Manchester.
CAMRA published a guide to classic pub crawls in the late 90s with some basic Holt houses. A lack of Holt is the only gap in Matthew Curtis’s excellent guide to Manchester beer.
Spying a Holt pub on the tram back from Droylsden to the Etihad,
it seemed daft not to stop. Who could resist those mobility scooters,
or those windows.
Liverpool are on the telly (again), and despite a mix of City and United memorabilia it feels a City pub.
It’s definitely a lager pub.
But there’s clearly plenty of cask trade for Bitter to hit the heights it often does in Salford
Cool, crisp, foamy, NBSS 4.
Hard to imagine the quality of varies much, either, but when did you last see a plain (but gorgeous) Holt boozer in the Guide. Even the Lamb isn’t a regular these days.
Ten minutes later we’re at the footbridge to the Etihad with its pints of Asahi and cans of London Pride.
At least the fish and chips from opposite the David Silva statue are local.
retiredmartin 
I’ve not been in since 2019, but it doesn’t sound like anything has changed. The bitter was excellent then as well. Was the pub dog around, he/she was very friendly?
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Things change very slowly, thankfully !
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“Spying a Holt pub on the tram back from Droylsden to the Etihad”. Last February I spied it at about 11.40 am on the tram to a Unicorn in Ashton’s Prince of Orange, then stopped off for a Holts returning an hour later.
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