July 2026. Saltaire. Mrs RM had scoured the internet for advice on what to do in Saltaire at the end of our (very short) leg of the Cask Camino and found 1) Salt Mill and Hockney galleries, 2) Roberts Park, 3) SALT Beer Factory. Not much mention of the characterful grid of cobbled streets built… Continue reading SALT. THEN MORE SALT

July 2026. Saltaire. Bradford. While the organist played us hymns modern and ancient in Saltaire’s United Reformed Church I devised a plot to get Mrs RM to visit a pub (she’s a reformed character this last week). “Mum loved those Fanny Crosby hymns that the Salvation Army band played, especially Blessed Assurance” I tell her.… Continue reading FANNY’S BY GASLIGHT, SALTAIRE

July 2026. Saltaire. Bradford. Shame on you for thinking we’d abandon the Cask Camino within a month.# No, we are true pilgrims, committed to the cause of bringing you exciting pub stops along the Leeds-Liverpool canal, which we resume at Gallows Bridge in Shipley. The stretch to Saltaire takes barely an hour, but once you… Continue reading CASK CAMINO DAY 4 – SALTAIRE BREWERY TAP TO SALT MILL

July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. The pint of Abbot in Pub 5 was a mistake. I sensed a dash to the station and a return to the warm embrace of the Sang Lung was called for. But our last pub was just across from the trains, and I ought to save my casketeers a table in… Continue reading SAWLEY SUPPING – (6) SAWLEY JUNCTION

July 2026. Sawley. You left me in the Steamboat (Pub 5), unaware that the queue averse crawlers had skipped Pub 4 due to a surge in demand for calamari and Madri. Back at the Trent Lock, it transpired that Bass was indeed on, but being served through the Citra pump I’d picked half an hour… Continue reading SAWLEY SUPPING – (5) THE BELL

July 2026, Sawley. Derbyshire. Well I clearly wasn’t taking proper notes last Friday as I can’t remember what we talked about, but since Oxford Nick was there it must have been very intellectual or concerned obscure pysch-pop. I’m arrogant enough to think I must have been everywhere in the UK ticking pubs, but I’ve never… Continue reading SAWLEY SUPPING – (4) – THE STEAMBOAT

July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. A really great day’s pubbing organised by Super Shawn of Leicester; half a dozen stops in suburban Derby close to the Trent. The only issue is the anti-social inclinations of some pub crawlers surveyors. Folk who leave the main group to drink halves (ugh) off the main trail or, even worse,… Continue reading SAWLEY SUPPING – (3) THE TRENT LOCK

July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. A fair few pubs for the 6,629 good folk of Sawley, most of them in the Good Beer this century. I’d started at the smart allrounder and GBG perennial White Lion, by which time the breakaway group had already declared the Ay Up at the similar Harrington Arms “not drinking well”.… Continue reading SAWLEY SUPPING – (2) THE NAG’S HEAD

July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. Another month, another top pub crawl, again organised by the estimable Shawn Collier of Leicester. Long Eaton station for Derbyshire’s Sawley and the Trent; can this unsung corner of the East Midlands match Nottingham, Derby and Burton ? Only 43 minutes on the train, 42 minutes of which were used up… Continue reading SAWLEY SUPPING – (1) THE WHITE LION

Learn more July 2026. Crosby. Merseyside. Attempting to rescue gig night in Liverpool without the gig, I’d at least done the culture and the beach, and could now get a new GBG tick in curious Crosby, where even the safetywear outlets serve Bass. Perhaps. Leave the commercial district and the pubs at Moorfields, glance at… Continue reading NOT ONE, BUT TWO (2) NEW CROSBY PUBS