Day 1 of Advent and here we go. Rip the flap open and there’s something nestled nicely inside. Out it comes. And it’s … a bottle of Two Roads, Workers Comp Saison (4.8%). […]
Coldwell’s Advent Calendar (or a visitation from Beer Hawk)
Wednesday morning, 1030am, somewhere just outside Wetherby, near Leeds, someone’s knocking at the door! Not more Black Friday online purchases, surely? The nice guy from UK Mail helpfully drags the heavy box in […]
Indy Man Beer Con
I guess people will see this and think WTF, it’s been going for four years and everyone’s been. They might have, but I hadn’t, and neither had lots of other people judging […]
Cellar 59, Lyme Regis
The first time I encountered Gyle 59’s beer was last summer (2015), in The Tiger Inn, Bridport, a place I spend quite a bit of time in during our annual pilgrimage to […]
Craft Beer OR just JDW exposing themselves?
I was somewhat bemused to see this laminated flyer in a local Wetherspoons, the one in the concourse at Leeds station, which is probably my favourite JDW in Leeds. A proper station […]
Left Bank Beer Festival, in Manchester?
If I’m honest, Manchester is a place I’ve never really got to grips with. I’ve been through it more times than I care to remember. I’ve spent plenty time at The Crown […]
The Record Café, Bradford.
Next up on our Saturday afternoon tour of Bradford was The Record Café and If I’m honest, I was a bit sceptical, a record shop, with beer? Doesn’t just sound right does […]
Why is a low cost Wetherspoon’s breakfast 50p cheaper in Liverpool than it is in Leeds?
If you walk out of Lime Street station and do an ‘eyes right’, you’re met with a stunning vista of neo-classical buildings, something Liverpool has in abundance, their semiotic presence denoting the city’s […]
Key Keg comes to Leeds CAMRA Beer Festival
Wednesday 16th March – 0915 x 1530. After two buses across Leeds, I managed to get to Pudsey Civic Hall just in time to see The Brass Castle brewery van pull up outside […]
The Turks Head, Leeds – Preservation through elevation
Every time I walk into Whitelock’s I’m reminded of the Great siege of Malta (1565) when Jean de Valette decapitated Turkish prisoners and fired their heads back into the Ottoman camp. Sadly, as […]
