Tag: Pubs

(OVER)DUE A DEUCHARS. THE SIX BELLS, COVENT GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE

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December 2024. Cambridge. Yes, another Covent Garden, this one tucked away between Fenners and the GBG pubs off Mill Road. Keep walking past the Six Bells and you’ll end up at that pub CAMRA used to run and the Live & Let Live, so why would a plain looking backstreet Greene King pub detain you… Continue reading (OVER)DUE A DEUCHARS. THE SIX BELLS, COVENT GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE

A PINT OF HARVEY’S OLD IN THE LAMB

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November 2024. Eastbourne. Eastbourne is a surprisingly large seaside town (pop. 101,000), as you’ll notice from the train and a walk through the dreadful shopping street to the sea. It can seem a bit under-pubbed for those 101,000 souls, and hadn’t troubled the Beer Guide till this years two beer shop newbies (be patient, be… Continue reading A PINT OF HARVEY’S OLD IN THE LAMB

The first airing of “Stop The Cavalry” in 2024 comes in….Walthamstow.

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November 2024. Walthamstow. E17. After 3 weeks stuck in the parental home in Waterbeach I headed down into Kent where Mrs RM was paying her own elderly folk some overdue attention. Approaching middle-age, I’ve pretty much swapped the car for the train, particularly in the winter months, and you can get from Cambridge to Rye… Continue reading The first airing of “Stop The Cavalry” in 2024 comes in….Walthamstow.

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 69 – NORTHERN ISLES

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Ah, yes, the Northern Isles. I spent 30 years looking at that tiny section of the Beer Guide, contemplating overnight ferries from Aberdeen or Loganair flights from Edinburgh, those evocative pub names in Kirkwall calling me. But if I did those pubs in 2011, would I just need to go back a decade later ?… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 69 – NORTHERN ISLES

Now THAT’S how to do a cheese and onion cob !

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October 2024. Leicester. And this is the problem/joy of having completed the Guide. Before completion, you break a journey in Leicester, have a rushed weakest half in the new GBG tick, run back to the next train, plan how you’re going to do all four (4) West Midlands newbies before your gig when none (0)… Continue reading Now THAT’S how to do a cheese and onion cob !

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY NO. 66 – HIGHLANDS AND WESTERN ISLES

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Definitely not a “county”, more a random collection of tourist-friendly hills and lakes, overseen by a benevolent creature who occasionally emerges to pick inaccessible GBG entries out of a hat on the riverbank near Inverness. My first five picks will delight the tourist as much as the beer connoisseur. John O’Groats Brewery Tap Well, this… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY NO. 66 – HIGHLANDS AND WESTERN ISLES

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 64 – EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIANS

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A belated return to the celebrated (in North Korea) “Half a dozen pubs…” series, which I might finish by 22nd December. Talking of which, where will I be on the most important day of the year ? Obviously, somewhere I’ve never been before, but a few new pubs would be nice. What about Mid Calder… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 64 – EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIANS

THEY ALSO SERVED, WHO ONLY DROVE PUB LEGENDS AROUND SOUTH YORKSHIRE

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October 2024. South Yorkshire. For a second week in a row I get to be DES to one of the pub ticking legends around Greater Rotherham’s rich collection of new Guide entries. While “pints only” BRAPA‘s initial target was a conservative half dozen, “strictly halves unless it’s Doom Bar” Ian aka Alfie had loftier ambitions;… Continue reading THEY ALSO SERVED, WHO ONLY DROVE PUB LEGENDS AROUND SOUTH YORKSHIRE