New bars are like buses aren’t they. You wait for ages and then they all seem to come at once. Mind you, just before Christmas is a good time to open a […]
North Brewing, Leeds City Tap Room
Richard Coldwell
Writer and photographer: Beer and Pubs
Vocation & Co. Leeds
How good is this? Fifty taps and an indoor street food market. And it’s my favourite Vocation brewery too. Although they only opened last Friday, I suspect some will be saying it’s […]
The Woodman, Birmingham, B5
The Woodman is a wonderful pub, with a wonderful story. Run down, neglected, then restored in 2013. Quinn, the helpful barman showed us a photo book showing the works from start […]
The Gunmakers Arms, Birmingham
The Good Beer Guide says it’s the Two Towers Brewery tap. I walked into the brewery yard, right up to the door, just as a lass locked the door behind her and […]
Waterend Barn, St Albans
Is this the best Wetherspoons ever? Out of all the ones I’ve visited it’s my favourite to date, and up there with the Hamilton Hall on Bishopsgate, EC2. Although how do […]
The Great Northern, St Albans
First impressions? Looks like a pub from the outside, but on walking in it seems more bar than pub. First impressions aren’t always to be relied on though are they. The welcome […]
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, St Albans
Would St Albanians be disappointed if I said Ye Olde Fighting Cocks was like Olde Englande meets Disco pub; because that’s what it felt like. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy […]
Six Bells, St Albans
The first thing to hit you is the smell of smoke from the fire, a nice aromatic smell from the well seasoned wood they’re burning. It’s 4pm on a Monday afternoon and […]
The Lower Red Lion, St Albans
Things start to narrow up as you walk down Romelands Hill towards the Lower Red Lion. There’s cameos of the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban to the right, houses jutting […]
The Boot, St Albans
The Boot was the first Olde Worlde style boozer we visited on the St Alban’s Proper Day Out. Positioned down a narrower lane towards the end of the broad High Street (Chequer […]
