Exploring UK & the world, stopping for the odd gig. Good Beer Guide completist. Chinese takeaway tips welcome.
Turnedo/Soccer Practice/The Weeping/Skydiving
What a place to finish the Good Beer Guide.
The Taversoe, Rousay, Orkney
Thanks to
@christinet50
for putting up with me over the last 30 years of GBG ticking.
It's 8am and if you're not already in a Spoons ordering your full English with coffee for £2.24 and sending the 50% bill to your grandchildren then you hate pubs.
2 blokes in the Wellington on bottles of coke discussing Jethro Tull albums.
"Broadsword and the Beast" the best album apparently. First saw Tull 68. The Welly might be the best pub in the world
@oldmudgie
Worth the mile walk in deep snow for the reopening of a packed Fagans, and the first (excellent) Bass in Sheffield since
@thewickingman
was in shorts.
@shfCAMRA
£1.95 your NBSS 4 pint of Banks's Mild in the Halfway House, a top new GBG entry in Aston-under-Lyne.
Who says the Beer Guide is all micros and brewery taps ?
"We're a Campaign for Real Ale, not for beers from microbreweries in pubs with a huge range of beers"
"The point of the GBG is to direct people to pubs where ordering a pint of cask, at any time, isn’t a lottery."
Wise words from Mr Boley & Mr Edwardson on Discourse
@oldmudgie
"5 pubs closed in January.. Never mind, no doubt a new micropub will open, where you can perch on uncomfortable stools & drink a pint of ale from a brewery you’ve never heard of.
So long as it’s not on a Monday or Tuesday, & not before 4 pm. So things aren’t too bad, then." 👏
Not good enough for the Beer Guide, apparently . Still good enough for my Top 10.
Bass from the cask in front of the fire in the Poets is one of life's great joys. 🔺
Really sorry to just hear of the death of Richard Coldwell, a great mate as well as top beer writer and Yorkshireman.
Thoughts with Cheryl and family.
@RichardColdwell
@RogerProtzBeer
@StymieSi
My 18 year old son has been living in Manchester 3 days and has already,
1. Seen a man walking a ferret down Fairfield St at 11pm (why were you in Fairfield St. Matt? )
2. Worked out United don't play in Manchester.
3. Learnt it's "cob" not bap.
My work is done.
Six months after moving to Sheffield, I finally finish the Beer Guide entries for South Yorkshire.
The Stop Inn Time is a corking place to finish.
@RotherhamCAMRA
Isle of Man has fallen !
Okells Bitter cool and clean and consistent.
5 pubs all open as advertised. Thanks to
@NorthIrishSea
Dave for reassurance and research.
Thank you to the lovely Matthew in
@CAMRA_Official
Subs who kindly sorted my GBG issue.
Will get it next week so will guess the new entries till then.
Stress levels reducing.
First campervan overnighter for a while, just outside Accrington.
£2.50 your Kebab meat, £3.70 your Thwaites in a posh dining pub.
Admit it, you're jealous.
Leaving Rousay having completed the Good Beer Guide.
It's taken a toll on one of us, I can tell you. Mrs RM aged 25 years as I reversed on to the ferry.
What a place to finish the Good Beer Guide.
The Taversoe, Rousay, Orkney
Thanks to
@christinet50
for putting up with me over the last 30 years of GBG ticking.
£5 to watch Sir Alastair bat in the Fenners sun on the opening day of the English cricket season.
AND a couple of Spoons vouchers left for lunch. What a life.
#CambridgeMCCU
Shropshire GBG has fallen, Herefordshire too.
A great day. Thanks
@christinet50
Celebrating unwisely with Thatchers in the Seven Stars near Builth Wells.