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 […]
Marble Arch, Manchester
The Red Lion, Westminster
With it’s magnificent floral display and the turn of the century listed interior I should have really liked this place. I’m not sure whether it was the £5.50 for a pint of […]
Crown Posada, Newcastle
Saturday got off to a good start. First thing I saw from my room window was a shiny salmon leaping from the murky Tyne. Quite why it jumped in the midst of […]
The Malt Cross, Nottingham
Strictly speaking this isn’t a pub, it’s a Music hall, or was. It’s been other things as well, including an Italian Restaurant. In 1997 restoration commenced with a Heritage Lottery grant, this […]
The Crown, Southwold
Sometimes you just sort of drop on things, unexpected things, hidden gems. I’m not sure why I thought it was a discovery because it’s dead easy to find, you can’t really miss […]
York Tap
Although part of a provincial mainline railway station, York Tap looks almost like it should be sat at the end of a Victorian seaside pier. A sort of wood panelled, beigey-pink pavilion, […]
The Queen’s Head, Newbiggin by the Sea
If you look at a map of Newbiggin by the Sea, there’s a large open space in the middle of the town, like a huge chunk of the place has just disappeared. […]
Farson’s Simonds Cisk, Brewers of Malta
One brewer has absolutely monopolised the islands of Malta; Farsons Simons Cisk, who are part of the larger Farsons group and the only commercial brewer on the island. I’ve got a bit […]
Malta Part II – The Sun in Splendour and WMC’s
The Sun in Splendour Triq Ross, St Julians, promotes itself on the back of it’s quirky beer garden out the back. It’s also a very nice place to sit outside on the […]
Malta and The Pub
I was looking forward to going back to Malta after ten years absence, and hoping that, in terms of beer, things might have moved on a bit? It’s not that there aren’t any decent […]