I learnt my first lesson about Chinese craft beer bars in Boxing Cat one Saturday afternoon. Always go when it’s happy hour, and strangely happy hour here is Friday to Sunday, 3 […]
Happy Hour in Boxing Cat, Shanghai
Richard Coldwell
Writer and photographer: Beer and Pubs
Brewdog Beer School
I went on Brewdog’s Beer School last night, for no other reason other than someone bought the experience for me as a Christmas present. A couple of hours, five thirds of beer […]
Marble Arch, Manchester
What? You’ve never been to The Marble Arch Rich? Nope. Most times I go to Manchester it’s for a reason; Grand Final, beer festivals and maybe call in somewhere for a quick […]
Brewdog, Mitte Berlin
Another day, another Brewdog. This one an orphan post from my trip to Berlin. I forget how many I’ve been in now? Only thing is they seem to keep creating new ones […]
Brewdog Manchester
At first glance Brewdog Manchester seems just like any other Brewdog. Same white perspex and copy cat lettering illuminating the available beers, same concrete, bare wood, scaffolding pole fittings. Look around, and […]
Port Street Beer House, Manchester
As I rattled the handle, I found the door you want to go through at the front of the premises is actually locked. It can’t be closed at this time, surely not? Didn’t […]
Cloudwater Tap Room, Manchester
I honestly thought I’d gone to the wrong place when I rocked up at Cloudwater’s Piccadilly Trading Estate Taproom. It could have been any anonymous building, on any unclassified light industrial estate, […]
Café Beermoth, Manchester
Behemoth, a huge or monstrous creature which the Bible sayeth, can only be controlled by God, it’s creator. Café Beermoth, a huge but certainly not monstrous and indeed wonderful bar in the […]
Offbeat, Valetta, Malta
Strictly speaking Offbeat isn’t a bar. Well it is, but that’s not it’s main purpose. The guys who own it created it as a venue to promote live music, including their own. […]
Il-Gazin, Vilhena Band Club, Floriana, Malta
This is a glorious place, the Philharmonic Society Vilhena (1874) is steeped in the Maltese tradition of band clubs whose aims are to promote musical participation, and by doing that supporting every […]
