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A tale of two Alberts in Manchester
On a recent trip to Manchester we didn’t plan our drinking beforehand and encountered two contrasting Alberts. First, we were in the city centre visiting a recommended ramen restaurant, and then...
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The Alpine Gasthof: let’s crack this
The Alpine Gasthof in Rochdale is something of a mystery. Why is there a replica of a German building in Lancashire? When was it built? And who designed it? We wrote the first version of this post in...
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Two decades of overlooking the obvious in central Manchester
Manchester has many wonderful old-fashioned pubs that, for some reason, we’d overlooked until last weekend. Why haven’t we spent more time in The Peveril of the Peak, The Britons Protection, The City...
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In 1960, a mysterious man slid into pubs in and around Oldham and secretly tested the strength of the beer. What he found was criminal. We first came across a version of this story back in 2016 when...
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News, nuggets and longreads 18 April 2020: Liverpool, Collyhurst, Heywood
Here’s all the beer and pub related writing that grabbed our attention in the past week, including a bumper crop of notes on pubs and beer festivals in the North West of England. We’ve been asking...
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Gin palaces in Manchester: blessed gaudiness
As you might expect, when it comes to writing about gin palaces, London seems to hog the limelight, but they popped up all across England in the early 19th century, including Manchester. Without...
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News, nuggets and longreads 7 December 2019: Marble, micropubs, more takeovers
Here’s all the reading about beer and pubs that grabbed us in the past week, from authenticity to Austria’s part in the birth of lager. First, some takeover news from the US: Ballast Point has been...
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News, nuggets and longreads 3 August 2019: Apollo, Bass, curation
These are all the stories about beer and pubs we enjoyed most, or learned the most from, in the past week, from Wetherspoons to museums. From Jeff Alworth, an epic – a two-parter pondering the question...
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News, nuggets and longreads 20 April 2019: Pub Crawling, Carlsberg, Craftonia
Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that caught our attention in the past week, from Leeds to low alcohol beer. For the Guardian Dave Simpson writes about the development of the post-punk scene...
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These are a Few of our Favourite Pubs
Over a few beers the other week we found ourselves making a list of pubs we love and find ourselves longing to be in. It’s not The Best Pubs, it’s not a Top Ten, it’s just some pubs we like enough to...
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News, Nuggets & Longreads 18 August 2018: Bartram’s, Belgium, the Barley Mow
Here’s everything published on beer and pubs in the past week that grabbed our attention, from teetotal tendencies to the extraordinary nature of ordinary pubs. First, some trademark thoughtful...
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News, Nuggets & Longreads 24 March 2018: Glitter, Ilford, AK
Here’s everything we’ve read about beer and pubs in the last week that excited us enough to hit the bookmark button, from glitter beer to Kölsch. And what a week it’s been — a positive flood of...
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Further Reading #3: Boddies and Opening Times at Manchester Library
Researching 20th Century Pub we spent time in some great libraries and archives with rich collections of pub- and beer-related material. This is the third in a series of blog posts intended to...
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QUICK POST: Alphabet Brewing Co Flat White Breakfast Stout
This beer was part of a batch ordered from Beer Ritz and paid for by Patreon subscribers like Simon Branscombe and Jared Kiraly — thanks, chaps! We chose this particular beer because it came up as a...
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The Changing Scene: Watney’s Pubs of 1964
In 1964-64 Watney Mann and its subsidiaries were on a spree of pub building in towns, New Towns and on housing estates up and down the country. Here are photographs of and notes on those new pubs from...
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The Alpine Gasthof: Let’s Crack This
We’ve been working on an article about German Bierkellers in English towns in the 1970s and as a side quest found ourselves looking into one of the UK’s weirdest pubs: The Alpine Gasthof, Rochdale....
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News, Nuggets & Longreads 25 March 2017: Morse, Ma Pardoe, Mild
Here’s all the writing on beer and pubs that’s stood out in the last seven days, from Inspector Morse to the provocative nature of lists on the Internet. The crime novelist Colin Dexter died this week...
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Post-War Estate Pubs 1951-1954
As promised, we’re scanning and sharing pictures from the various magazines and books we’ve picked up over the years. This particular set tells a bit of a story. During and after World War II, until...
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Mild in Manchester
It turns out to be difficult to stumble upon cask mild in Manchester these days — you need a few clues as to where to look. We have a theory that we’ve been testing for a few years now that there’s a...
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News, Nuggets & Longreads 12 November 2016: Mexico, Manchester & Mad Science
Before we get into the links a quick heads-up: Gambrinus Waltz, our short e-book about how lager came to London in the 19th Century, is free this weekend for Amazon Kindle (UK | US | Germany |...
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