I realise most folk reading this are drinking 10.75% Brown DIPAs in soulless halls in Manchester or Cambridge at the moment. I’ve just had a pint of John Smiths in front of a roaring fire, listening to old Yorkshiremen talking guff. I win. We thought we’d found yet another publican doing their own version of… Continue reading JOHN SMITHS LIVES IN ACKWORTH
Tag: West Yorkshire
KNOTTINGLEY KICKS BACK
One of the few downsides of the improvements to the A1 (Newcastle in 3hrs 30) is that it’s much harder to turn-off to little Knottingley these days. That’s meant that our custom for West Yorkshire’s finest pizza takeaway has rather dried up. Dario’s is still hanging on in the fairly grim little arcade along the… Continue reading KNOTTINGLEY KICKS BACK
SPEN – LIFE AMONG THE LION BARS
Before recent sad events I’d never heard of the Spen Valley, the collective name for the cluster of Kirklees villages between Bradford and Dewsbury. It must be hard work in Tourist Offices in Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike and Drub. Surely the names alone sell the place ? You might think Bradford is the UK curry capital, but it’s Cleckheaton… Continue reading SPEN – LIFE AMONG THE LION BARS
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HALIFAX ?
On each annual visit Halifax reveals it’s treasures a little more. I’ve stayed here quite a few times recently, due more to the regular gigs at the wonderful Minster than new pubs. This trip for a family wedding meant giving a group of octogenarian teetotallers a tour round a town that they absolutely loved. It was Chinese… Continue reading WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HALIFAX ?
TOP 100 PUBS – BIG 6, HALIFAX
This weekend in Halifax for a family wedding has been a revelation, and not just because I managed to get a group of elderly relatives to skip the Premier Inn breakfast in favour of Wetherspoons (saving £34.73). They weren’t as impressed with the lads off to the St Leger on their second pint of cider by 9.15.am There’s… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – BIG 6, HALIFAX
FINISHING WEST YORKSHIRE ON RISHWORTH MOOR
My last pub in the West Yorkshire chapter of this years Beer Guide was in Rishworth. It must have the best views of any pub in the county, obviously apart from the Steam Packet in Knottingley. Just like Scott following Amundsen, Simon Everitt got here first on his way to finishing the county. Mind, I… Continue reading FINISHING WEST YORKSHIRE ON RISHWORTH MOOR
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