Anyone know what pub this is ? Leon was having problems loading WhatPub to find our next Ponte pre-emptive; perhaps it was slow as CAMRA forgot to top up the electric. Luckily I had a map from 1873. The dots are micropubs. We wandered aimlessly back over the footbridge into town, wondering whether the Duke… Continue reading PONTE PRE-EMPTIVE PURSUIT
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TOP 100 PUBS – THE ROBIN HOOD, PONTEFRACT
If you read Beer Twitter (folk who write about beer rather than pubs) you might be a bit depressed at the moment. But BRAPA and Colin the Cauliflower and me are here to tell you that EVERYTHING’S ALRIGHT. Last week was one of the most wonderful of my pubbing “career”, and I’m still only on… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE ROBIN HOOD, PONTEFRACT
CRAFT COMES TO CAS
So there I was at Castleford Station at 15:49, with a big sign saying; “Cas welcomes Leon. Don’t look behind you” But no-one got off the 15:49, which isn’t surprising as Leon had arrived 10 minutes earlier and sneaked off to the Market Tap. Which is where I headed directly, but only after going wrong… Continue reading CRAFT COMES TO CAS
NEVER BORED IN CASTLEFORD
As you’ll have realised if you bothered studying my May travel map*, there was a trip to Castleford squeezed in before month-end. This will really make my American readers jealous they’re not in England this summer. “Cas” has never featured in the blog before, but then neither has Bexhill. But I know I’ve stopped off… Continue reading NEVER BORED IN CASTLEFORD
THE SUN SHINES ON HANGING HEATON
It was good to see a vaccinated BRAPA so cheery at getting his first Beer Guide ticks since April, and I was happy to attempt a risky 3rd run tick at Hanging Heaton Cricket Club on the way home. Si was in that cheery mood that differentiates Pub Men from Beer Bores, and proved great… Continue reading THE SUN SHINES ON HANGING HEATON
FLATT TOP IN THE RAIN
The move to Sheffield has put me within reach of a vast swathe of That Yorkshire which I’ve given short shrift to over the decades. Like Kirklees, the filling in the midddle (?) of the Manc/Leeds/Sheff triangle; While some places drag you back every year with new craft bars (Halifax) or rumours of top Bass… Continue reading FLATT TOP IN THE RAIN
WILL MY AYGO MAKE IT TO WADSWORTH ?
23rd January 2020 Getting dark now. You have to be careful of Duncan when it gets dark. I dropped him off at Hullaballoo in Shipley and drove round the block while he asked if they had any Dire Straits themed beers, then set off for The Tricky One. Wadsworth’s Hare & Hounds didn’t open till… Continue reading WILL MY AYGO MAKE IT TO WADSWORTH ?
PUDSEY BARED
22nd/23rd January 2020 Oooh ! A composite post. Is that allowed ? Well, I made two trips to Pudsey, capital of western Leeds, on successive days and one of those was just as Duncan’s Taxi so it’d be daft not to combine them. Even Mark Crilley can’t be expected to read too many of my… Continue reading PUDSEY BARED
THOSE CRAFTY YANKS
Hopefully Dick and Dave, safely retired to Preston in their dotage, will treasure this photographic journal of their cultural (curry and beer) trip to the UK of Autumn 2019. For the record, I probably did make them pop in the Magic Rock Tap in Birkby (ha !). Hard to avoid on the way back, and… Continue reading THOSE CRAFTY YANKS
BLACK RAT, WHITE RAT, NO TAT
Students of GBG ticking (Open University, £9,250 p.a., cash only) will no doubt be intrigued by the variety of micropubs on this blog. Moretti and Leeds fans in Silsden, Laurel & Hardy and family-friendly in Bingley, but now back to tiny and beery in Thackley, close to the world-famous Idle Working Mens Club. Suburban… Continue reading BLACK RAT, WHITE RAT, NO TAT
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