Feast of the M60 unravels a tea time treasure It has been a while since yours truly had ventured into a Co-op for anything besides a pint or two of milk. Yet my latest visit to Manchester’s Corporation Street branch did involve two pints of milk and a box of tea bags.
Read More A Top Tea Treasure: Co-op’s Indian PrinceOur Top Ten black tea brands I probably drink as much tea as the late Tony Benn ever did. After he retired from politics, he went on a speaking tour taking two props with him: a chair and a Thermos® flask. A flask full of tea.
Read More Top Ten Tea: A Feast of the M60 Not So Perfect TenLost items from our supermarket shelves If you have spent more than four decades on this planet, you will have seen many shops go the way of dinosaurs. Not a single day goes by without there being a “Do You Remember the Woolworths Pick and Mix” counter or “School Puddings” meme. I have yet to […]
Read More The Lost Hypermarket: An A to Z of Long Lost BrandsTen of the finest dark beers – mainly milds, stouts, and porters At this time of writing we are in the midst of Black Friday, an American import which marks the first shopping day after Thanksgiving Day. Thanks inevitably to the internet it has become an international phenomenon. In these parts, it is associated with […]
Read More Delectable Dark Beers: A Top Beer Not So Perfect TenTop Beer on Stockport Brewing Company’s porter For lovers of cask conditioned and bottle conditioned ales, Greater Manchester is some sort of a metropolis for its microbreweries. Stockport town centre also has three microbreweries alongside Frederic Robinson’s Unicorn Brewery. Two of them are yards apart, with the third one closer to Heaviley.
Read More Top Beer: 3. Stockport Brewing Company’s Stock PorterA quick half with Sam and Dave Ward, and Anthony Lewis, founders of Tameside’s newest microbrewery Just off the 346 route, in part of what used to be Weston Hyde’s base is a microbrewery that is making waves. Its upmarket approach has wowed drinkers young and old. Ultimately, they wish to experiment with new flavours and […]
Read More The East of the M60 Interview: Tweed Brewing Co., NewtonTweed Brewing Company sets up home in Newton Just off the 346 bus route (along the part hitherto SHMD’s 15 service), Hydonians can drink to the town’s first brewery since 1929. The Tweed Brewing Company have set up a microbrewery on Newton Business Park. Owned by father and son Dave and Sam Ward, this began […]
Read More It’s Time to Brew! Hyde’s First Brewery Since 1929 Ready for ChristmasSeveral things which 21st century children will never see or hear in their local superstores Take a trip to a 21st century superstore, anywhere in the United Kingdom. Today’s stores are sprawling; some of which architecturally nondescript. Commonly, a great number have petrol stations and generous amounts of free parking.
Read More Lost from the Supermarket: A Trolley Load of AnachronismsReddish brewery’s bitter set for House of Commons bar Another one of our local breweries is set to grace the Commons’ bar. This week, it will be the turn of Reddish’s Ringway Brewery.
Read More Ringway Brewery Cleared For WestminsterLamented or not so lamented lost lagers of the last fifty years If you are able to cast your mind back to the early 1960s, a certain Eddie Taylor was causing quite a stir in the pub scene. In 1961, he bought twelve English and Scottish breweries within a year. He formed a conglomerate known […]
Read More Lancs Lagers Lost: A Top Beer Not So Perfect Ten
