I know that some of you, fellow completists perhaps, can’t get enough of these little pinked in Beer Guide extracts, and neither can Mrs RM who’s determined to get me round the remote corners of the UK. I know this because the landlady tells me at length about the challenges of running a rural pub,… Continue reading MY HEREFORDSHIRE GBG COMPLETION IS IN THE BALANCE. LUSTIN’ AFTER LUSTON
Tag: Herefordshire
ROSS-ON-WHY ?
I wanted to us (D)ross-on-Wye, I really did, but that would be unfair and as you know I reserve my unfairness for a certain Berkshire Thames-side town. And besides I used it before, in 2017. We took the much longer route (1 minute more) through the Vale of Leadon and Much Marcle, passing a giant… Continue reading ROSS-ON-WHY ?
Ledbury, but not THAT pub
Mrs RM is determined to help me get the Beer Guide ticked, and 10 days ago we set off on another campervan adventure to conquer Gloucestershire and around, a tricky county to get an away win on a damp Friday in May. 2:28 hours to our Ledbury diversion, as we oddly find that Herefordshire is… Continue reading Ledbury, but not THAT pub
AVOIDING THE EURO SEMI-FINAL ON THE WELSH BORDER
According to official figures, over half the population DIDN’T watch the England matches, and you know I always take the majority view. Our Wednesday night stop at the Lower House (there’s only a lower, middle and upper) in Huntington was actually back over the border from Gladestry, in the area known as “Scary Herefordshire” i.e.… Continue reading AVOIDING THE EURO SEMI-FINAL ON THE WELSH BORDER
MONKLAND CHEESE MEMORY JOGGER
Sorry, that pic is clickbait. I didn’t actually pop in Leominster’s Black Swan for a pint of Bass Carling. Their house beer is Swan Amber, which is nothing to do with the Proper Beer made in a factory in Wolves. We were in Leominster (again) because it had a car park we could stay overnight… Continue reading MONKLAND CHEESE MEMORY JOGGER
GIN, PUDDLES & PITCHFORKS AT CRADLEY BROOK
This was a tough one to write. My personal Hippocratic oath is always to tell the truth about pubs and beer, even if it means that the local CAMRA branch don’t tell me the GBG2020 entries in advance. Your pubby health is my No.1 concern. But I’m bound to upset folk with this short report… Continue reading GIN, PUDDLES & PITCHFORKS AT CRADLEY BROOK
LEOMINSTER IS BACK
Of course, if this were BRAPA it would be “Cheese munching spinster, illuminates Leominster” (actually that’s Mark E. Smith) or something. But when you’ve made as many trips to Herefordshire and been disappointed by The Lem’ster as often I have, you’ll know a decent pub in the county’s second town is cause for raising a… Continue reading LEOMINSTER IS BACK
A PEAK INTO PEMBRIDGE
You always get one bit of classic Black & White Herefordshire in the new Beer Guide. Normally a village you can’t pronounce with lots of vowels, cherry blossoms on the approach, dull Wye Valley ales and that tempting sign for Robinsons cider the ticking rules won’t let you succumb to. Pembridge, the half-daytrip for Brummies… Continue reading A PEAK INTO PEMBRIDGE
HEREFORD : NO BULL
The oddest thing. I seem to have lost a few photos from a couple of weeks ago in Hereford. Perhaps they’ll turn up in 2021 and I’ll wonder what they are. Not to worry. I still have the photo of Duncan on his bike admiring the Cathedral while completing the Guide in 1977; As you’ll… Continue reading HEREFORD : NO BULL
A LATE LUNCH IN LEOMINSTER
BLOGGERS TIP: Never pass up the opportunity for alliteration, even when you’ve no actual pub to write about. Having failed to decide on lunch in Monkland (the Cheesesplaining incident), we stopped off at Leominster (NOTE : NOT pronounced Leo’s minster). past the point of caring about food provenance at 3pm. Leominster suffers a bit against… Continue reading A LATE LUNCH IN LEOMINSTER
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