February 2025. Manchester.
Back at Piccadilly, with 3 hours till the game against the Scouse Buswreckers XI, Matt surprised me;
“What next, Bar Fringe ?”.
You know you’ve brought your children up correctly when they can make an unprompted pub suggestion, rather than say “You decide“.
Bar Fringe is one of his and Emma’s favourites, presumably due as much to its unpretentious cosiness as the lambics. My lazy comparison with the Elm Tree in Cambridge still holds.
It’s a fixture on the Mancunian bar crawl,
but hasn’t featured in the GBG for quite a while, despite the Duckett & Son urinals.
In truth, I was never going cask, despite that being a more than decent line-up* (very Sheffield),
not with Zot and Timmermans and the pink elephant one on the bar.
This pic contains two of my favourite people, Quosh joining us unexpectedly at the bar to admire Matt’s Benny hat.
Another of my favourite people, and I do like to think of ChatGPT as a 58 year old in a darkened room in Carluke, imagined the Etihad in a hundred year’s time,
Gotta tell ya, ChatGPT mate, it looks like that now, and the steak pie that made City’s tame surrender to a Salah-inspired Liverpool must have been a century old.
What on earth will Manchester Beer Book look like in 2125 ?
*What IS in those jam jars in front of the pumps ?
retiredmartin 
Zot is a fabulous beer.
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It is.
I remember it first in the Dove in Hackney, a similar sort of pub.
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We’ve been to the Dove. Some of the beers were very off. Westmalle Double especially. The food was good though. Our favourite is TripelB which is luckily here in Worcester.
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Where in Worcester?
I was just thinking I need another night in a campervan under the arches.
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TripelB is on Copenhagen Street, next door to the Oil Basin Brewhouse
Also, the place that was the Sociable Beer Company (Britannia Road) has reopened as the new home for the Copper Beech Brewery. This is a collaboration with the people who run the Oil Basin.
Another new bar is the Foregate, in Foregate Street. It’s jazz club/speakeasy style like Tonic Bar on the same street and same owners.
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What?
Green ducks.
That is, green ducks, mate, not green, ducks, if you see what I mean.
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The tears of despondent city fans.
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