May 2025. Manchester.
Pre-football tea with Matt, and a tick in another Matt’s beer book.
The Koffee Pot is a good example of the variety of bars in Mr Curtis’s exemplary guide,
a quirky greasy spoon that’s added beer and burritos since moving from Stevenson Square round the corner to Oldham Street.
Not the most exciting beer list in the Northern Quarter, but Sonoma a safe bet to wash down the cabritos,
high quality grub, lovely staff
Over tea Matt has a very deep conversation with me, the sort of Father to Son talk you only expect in Cat Stevens songs. Oddly, Cat is on the Neil Young bill when Matt sees Neil at Hyde Park this summer.
“Dad, when you say a beer is “chewy”, is that a good thing?”
“Yes son, chewy is a good thing”.
retiredmartin 
āchewyā, but not “cherry” or “plummy”?
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I think the Plum Porter is plummy and chewy, Paul !
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However, “sour” is always a bad thing, and some brewers kindly warn us, by calling their beer a “sour”.
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Does Matt have a particular Neil music period that he listens to? Guessing he reads the blog and will answer directly.
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74ā to 79ā is my favourite. Matt
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1874 to 1879.
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I’ve been to a branch meeting this evening scheduled for “Mon 12th May 1900”. It was for 7pm though rather than 125 years ago. And it was solely for a “GBG process review” yet didn’t last much more than two hours.
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I guess Candid didn’t make the cut ?
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Next year’s entries were decided weeks ago. This was just about the process for subsequent years.
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I hope the branch will be favouring entries only serving “independent” producers rather than big brewery slop ? š
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No, that wasn’t mentioned, but I can bring it up at the next meeting if you like !!
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Umm. No thanks š
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