January 2026. Liverpool. Ten minutes walk from Love Lane through Liverpool One‘s shops brings me to my Travelodge, and reminds me I still haven’t repaired that wedding ring I had surgically removed by Ernest Jones Jewellers here in 2023. My room costs £24.99, which in 1993 would have bought you a terraced house in Anfield,… Continue reading LAST 5 STANDING – ROSCOE HEAD, LIVERPOOL
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TOP 100 PUBS – THE UNICORN, CANTERBURY
August 2024. Canterbury. CAMRA’s national beer scoring system, the one that determines which pubs make the Beer Guide (admit it, you thought it was about discounts and stocking beers whose pump clips you can’t read), has a very useful prompt to marking your pint (0 is Doom Bar, I believe. Mrs RM and I were… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE UNICORN, CANTERBURY
GREAT PUBS REVISITED No. 2 – WIGAN CENTRAL
If you’re wondering where “Half a dozen pubs…” has got to, the next edition is Staffordshire, the toughest so far, and I’m absolutely terrified of upsetting Stafford Paul so I’m planning to be in hiding for a few days after that post comes out later. Before that, the second in my award winning Pub Revisit… Continue reading GREAT PUBS REVISITED No. 2 – WIGAN CENTRAL
WAITING FOR KIRKBY LONSDALE TO OPEN
The motto of Sir James Paget, Yarmouth’s most famous son, was “Work itself is a pleasure“, and there is, of course, no more pleasurable work than ticking the GBG and writing about it. Arriving home on Wednesday afternoon after a 4:30 drive from the coast (blame it on Sutton Bridge) I barely had time to… Continue reading WAITING FOR KIRKBY LONSDALE TO OPEN
HELENSBURGH CHARITY BOX PORN
There’s great pub life in Scotland, but it might sometimes seem the Beer Guide alternates Wetherspoons and Brewery Taps, so The Ashton, like the Speedwell or the Phoenix, is a rare joy of a cask boozer. The Tand likes this place, and he’s always right. You can trust a place with a proper entrance, too.… Continue reading HELENSBURGH CHARITY BOX PORN
THE BRIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC
Here’s some views for you, then. A bridge over the Atlantic, apparently, and a canon primed (?) to attack deliveries of craft beer. Oh, and a lovely garden in which to enjoy the mist descending. This is Clachan Seil, one of the most romantic sounding settings for a GBG entry which hove into view just… Continue reading THE BRIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC
JARL AND A MINI PLOUGHMANS IN RAMSBOTTOM RBL
6th February 2020 Onto my latest trip now, a rather disastrous attempt to get my hair cut. My base for the next two days was Heaton Chapel, which some of you may have heard of. It’s in Greater Manchester/Stockport/Cheshire Lancashire. I paid the princely sum of £54.40 for a two night stay in Trivelles on… Continue reading JARL AND A MINI PLOUGHMANS IN RAMSBOTTOM RBL
THE THRILL OF THE GRILL
While I’d been slogging my way up to the Highlands and round the Moray coast towards Aberdeen, Mrs RM had taking the easy option of a Logan Air flight from Southend. I think you should demand she blogs about Southend, you know. She’ll have had this view as the plane bumbled towards Trump Airport in… Continue reading THE THRILL OF THE GRILL
GOD SPEEDWELL YOU ! GREEN EMPEROR
Nice obscure Canadian post-rock reference there for Russ and any other Canucks reading this. We pick up the story as the train from Perth arrives at a Dundee station bursting with pre-AGM anticipation. I headed straight to Caird Hall to pick up my CAMRA Members’ Weekend goody bag, my first since the Isle of Man… Continue reading GOD SPEEDWELL YOU ! GREEN EMPEROR
SAINTS AT THE CHERRYBANK
One last pub in Perth before I could join the queue for goody bags and “Say No To Craft” badges back in Dundee. A fairly hefty walk to the Cherrybank, the one I’d been looking forward to most. Always best to alternate your pints of keg with caffeine of course, so I stopped in Blend… Continue reading SAINTS AT THE CHERRYBANK
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