Tag: Manchester

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE PEVERIL OF THE PEAK

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May 2025. Manchester. Well, there’s a pub you’ll know and probably love, but it’s not the star of our Moderate Night Out with Blackpool Jane last week. That comes next. Jane does something called “work”, and we picked the Pev to meet to plan our pubs as it’s, remarkably, a place Mrs RM didn’t remember… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE PEVERIL OF THE PEAK

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE KOFFEE POT

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May 2025. Manchester. Pre-football tea with Matt, and a tick in another Matt’s beer book. The Koffee Pot is a good example of the variety of bars in Mr Curtis’s exemplary guide,   a quirky greasy spoon that’s added beer and burritos since moving from Stevenson Square round the corner to Oldham Street. Not the most… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE KOFFEE POT

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE CASTLE HOTEL

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May 2025. Manchester. Leaving the Crown I was almost distracted by the siren call of Heaton Mersey’s Griffin, a favourite of Old Mudgie, who I was oddly reminded of by this; but I’d arranged to meet Matt in town for pre-match tea, and had to dash to the end of the Didsbury line to catch… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE CASTLE HOTEL

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – BAR FRINGE

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February 2025. Manchester. Back at Piccadilly, with 3 hours till the game against the Scouse Buswreckers XI, Matt surprised me; “What next, Bar Fringe ?”. You know you’ve brought your children up correctly when they can make an unprompted pub suggestion, rather than say “You decide“. Bar Fringe is one of his and Emma’s favourites,… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – BAR FRINGE

PRETZELS, CHOCOLATE AND TIGER RUT. A RETURN TO MOSSLEY’S GILLERY

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February 2025. Mossley (pronounced Mossley). I’d promised Matt lunch in Mossley, but while it’s a good pub town it’s not one for the gourmand, or even two blokes after a chip butty/bap/cob. Not on Sunday, anyway. Luckily, we had 28 minutes before the train back to Platform 1, Piccadilly, just time for pizza in the… Continue reading PRETZELS, CHOCOLATE AND TIGER RUT. A RETURN TO MOSSLEY’S GILLERY

THE BUTCHERS ARMS, MOSSLEY. ANOTHER PUB YOU’RE SURPRISED, BUT DELIGHTED, TO SEE IN GBG 25

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February 2025. Mossley. Is it Moss-ley ? Or Moz-ley ? Or Moze-ley ?  Who cares ? Whatever, it’s second stop out of Piccadilly on the line to York. Matt met me at Platform 1, 1 minute before departure, while I admired the flashy ad for the Mid-Cheshire line. Matt had never been to Mossley, quite… Continue reading THE BUTCHERS ARMS, MOSSLEY. ANOTHER PUB YOU’RE SURPRISED, BUT DELIGHTED, TO SEE IN GBG 25

ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK. FLOK.

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February 2025. Manchester. Life slowly returns to normality, with three weekends in a row in Manchester, with ticks in the GBG and the CAMRA Manc Book, the latter packed with hipster bars in the Northern Quarter, a phrase that was outdated years ago. Stevenson Square, barely two minute walk from Matthew’s Piccadilly flat, is the… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK. FLOK.

MICROPUB LOO SPECIAL AWARD – OL’S BIER, STALYBRIDGE

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February 2025. Stalybridge. Right, here’s that new Stalybridge entry, a third micro within two minutes joining Bridge Beers and Cracking Pint, which was called Crafty Pint before CAMRA banned craft following the incredibly successful “Revitalisation Review”. These charming micros have successfully revitalised Stalybridge, in part, and Ol’s is a friendly all-rounder of a neighbourhood bar-cum-offie… Continue reading MICROPUB LOO SPECIAL AWARD – OL’S BIER, STALYBRIDGE