December 2025. Sheffield. Perhaps only Will the Sheffield Hatter is as passionate about beer quality in the pub as I am, starting many a scrap reasoned debate on CAMRA Discourse of late. Like Will, I reckon that quality can vary by the day, or session, even in the best of pubs, and discussion about “good”… Continue reading CHECKING WILL’S SHEFFIELD BEER SCORES
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MEANWHILE, BACK IN WATERBEACH…
October 2025. Waterbeach. A deluge of posts now I’m (briefly, possibly) back “home” in Sheffield with Wi-Fi. Back from a rainy Romania to a damp Luton, we headed straight to see how Dad was recovering from his “bounce”. We also listened to some care home entertainment (an OAP with a guitar from the Fens singing… Continue reading MEANWHILE, BACK IN WATERBEACH…
THE CROWN, GLENTHAM. YOUR CLOSEST PUB TO “THE BATTLE OF SPITAL IN THE STREET”
February 2025. Glentham. A GBG newbie for Scunthorpe CAMRA, still in the afterglow of Sir Humphrey re-opening the Berkeley, though the causal observer may say “Surely that’s Gainsborough ?“. Bing Maps reckons Glentham is in Market Rasen, which is Lincoln branch. Traditionally these territorial disputes are settled to see who can drink the most pints… Continue reading THE CROWN, GLENTHAM. YOUR CLOSEST PUB TO “THE BATTLE OF SPITAL IN THE STREET”
MORE GREATER GRANTHAM GASTROPUBS
October 2023. Greater Grantham (or is it Super Sleaford ?). Lincolnshire. Some blokes like to admire other bloke’s Panini sticker albums from the 1986 World Cup, some compare rare Radiohead vinyl, but pub tickers love, LOVE, looking at each others Beer Guides and going “Oooh, you’ve got all four new Grantham ticks to do”. Yes,… Continue reading MORE GREATER GRANTHAM GASTROPUBS
ONE BEER IS PLENTY…
September 2023. Brigg. This mini-post brought to you via “tethered wifi” (idk) on the bumpy bus from Belgrade to Tuzla. Pub 2 of our 50p each way rail trip to bucolic Brigg, a second of three (3) pubs before noon. As Duncan noted, Brigg (pop. 5,000 odd) is quite a large town to be deprived… Continue reading ONE BEER IS PLENTY…
THE CLOSED SHOP RE-OPENS IN THE BEST PLACE INT WORLD
September 2023. Sheffield. It’s great to have a Good Beer Guide, but there’s plenty of life outside the good book. Mrs RM particularly liked the Closed Shop in student-land, as much for the quality pub food as the average Stancil beers. See if you can spot its little problem when it was a Stancil pub.… Continue reading THE CLOSED SHOP RE-OPENS IN THE BEST PLACE INT WORLD
FINALLY, THE TAN HILL INN !
August 2023. Tan Hill. Having completed the Beer Guide I wondered if I’d finally visited all the classic pubs in the UK, but then I realised that the Crooked House never made the GBG while I was ticking it, and there’s a few places like Defford’s Monkey House without cask, so who knows. And then… Continue reading FINALLY, THE TAN HILL INN !
PARMOS IN PIERCEBRIDGE
August 2023. Piercebridge. Never mind the George‘s status as one of our great coaching inns, or the clock, or the bedrooms (fine, a bargain at the price). You’ll be wanting to know about the bar. Well, when it re-opened last year the handpumps were gone. So with my CAMRA Gold Card hat on it was… Continue reading PARMOS IN PIERCEBRIDGE
POST-EMPTIVES ON THE EDGE OF DOWNHAM MARKET
Having made the effort to get to Denver for a tick, it seemed churlish not to make a first visit for 25 years to the other, non-Guided, village pub. A post-emptive, as we pros call it. Ideally I bring you a host of village highlights as well, but this is Norfolk, so all you get… Continue reading POST-EMPTIVES ON THE EDGE OF DOWNHAM MARKET
A MILD MONDAY IN CAMBRIDGE
Back home in Cambridge for a few days, with ambitions to clear some of those irritating unticked pubs in Essex and London. But Day 1 was a wash-out, literally, as Storm Franklin put paid to ALL trains from Waterbeach to London. Mind, it was worse in Rotherham; Never mind ticks then, I had to get… Continue reading A MILD MONDAY IN CAMBRIDGE
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