November 2025. Sale. Greater Manchester. A 3pm Saturday kick-off against Dirty L**ds, and just time before the match to meet Matt and tick off one GBG newbie in Greater Manchester with a half hour metro trip down into Trafford. There’s a good cricket team in Trafford, I understand. I’d made a fruitless journey to Sale… Continue reading PRAY TELL, IS THE CASK DRINKING WELL IN SALE ?
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ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE KOFFEE POT
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
DON’T AVOID, MYTHOLMROYD
11th March 2023. When you’re setting out on your Good Beer Guide ticking career, you can confidently expect to find half a dozen new Guide entries in an afternoon. But, as BRAPA well knows, the deeper the you go the harder to extract are those ticks. And so I approach the penultimate West Yorkshire entry… Continue reading DON’T AVOID, MYTHOLMROYD
BACK ON TRACK IN MANCHESTER
19th January 2023. I’ve been sharing a £299 season ticket for City with the boys this season. That’s £15.74 a game to watch what was the best team in the League till we sold our best players to Arsenal as some sort of North-South levelling up. James has been more than me, and seen City… Continue reading BACK ON TRACK IN MANCHESTER
WHIPPING PICCADILLY (INDUSTRIAL ESTATES)
Only another 137 posts (conservative estimate) and I’ll have caught up with the blog at last. More importantly, only another ten and you’ll know about the alpaca farm. 22 September 2022. Scarily, this was the last time I had my hair cut until this Tuesday. Matthew is so busy at Helvete he hasn’t been able… Continue reading WHIPPING PICCADILLY (INDUSTRIAL ESTATES)
INDY MAN ’17 – AMONGST WOLVES
Two competing blog posts to finish today; the monthly review and my annual reflection on Indy Man Beer Con, which at least this year I can remember. Once more, the Bath’s the Star. One of the great venues anywhere, and the main reason I come back each year despite telling you consistently that beer festivals… Continue reading INDY MAN ’17 – AMONGST WOLVES
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