HOW MANY BEERS CAN YOU DRINK IN A BAR WITH 42 BEERS ON ?

August 2023. Clitheroe. It had been 20 years since Mrs RM was last in Clitheroe, the Glossop of the North (there isn’t one of those in the South) and I wanted her to see the Bowland Brewery development in Holmes Mill. To be honest, Clitheroe didn’t look a lot different. Perhaps that’s the problem with… Continue reading HOW MANY BEERS CAN YOU DRINK IN A BAR WITH 42 BEERS ON ?

THE SUN SETS ON LANCASHIRE GBG FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Ah, bucolic Bowland, favourite of Her Majesty AND me. We also share a love for Doom Bar and errant sons, I believe. Here’s some drone photography of Lancashire for you; see if you can spot the areas in enhanced lockdown (no exchange of bodily fluids allowed after 18:45 Mon to Wed, 20:45, Thr to Sun).… Continue reading THE SUN SETS ON LANCASHIRE GBG FOR ANOTHER YEAR

BOWLAND – 41 HANDPUMPS, WHAT CAN GO WRONG ?

I’d been expecting to visit Bowland Brewery last year. But oddly, a brewery bar with more than 40 handpumps inexplicably failed to be fast-tracked into GBG 19. After all, choice ? Isn’t that what we want from our pubs in 2019 ? Anyway, I was thrilled to be finally making a return to old-fashioned Clitheroe,… Continue reading BOWLAND – 41 HANDPUMPS, WHAT CAN GO WRONG ?