Like other CAMRA members, I regularly score the cask beer I drink using the National Beer Scoring System (NBSS). This isn’t just for my own convenience: venues generally need to score an aver…| Oh Good Ale
This is a second post about 2025’s Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA‘s annual celebration of mild. The previous post focused on the beers; this one’s about the pubs. I visited 48 pubs during MM so I won’t comment on every single one, just note down what comes to mind as I go along. […]| Oh Good Ale
Fell in the street in a drunken heap… For May’s Session, Phil Cook has asked us to consider “the beers and pubs in art and fiction that have grabbed our attention”. I immediately thought, “that’ll be easy – I’ll do beer and pubs in folk”. Immediately after that, however, paralysis hit. What did I mean […]| Oh Good Ale
Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of mild, is over for another year. Like all these events/challenges, MM involves visiting a certain number of pubs and dr…| Oh Good Ale
Hosting the April Session, Ding says: “I would love people to tell us where they find the greatest value in beer.” He usefully points out that ‘value’ can mean a lot of diff…| Oh Good Ale
Now that the ticks have been counted, the prizes distributed and the prize draws drawn, it’s probably a bit late for a retrospective post on 2024’s Winter Warmer Wander (Stockport &…| Oh Good Ale
This is the fourth round-up (of five) of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander, Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers. This one covers t…| Oh Good Ale
Here’s the third round-up (of five) of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander, Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers. This one covers poi…| Oh Good Ale
Here’s another round-up of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander, Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers. This post covers Altrinch…| Oh Good Ale
For this year’s Winter Warmer Wander – Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers – I decided to do something I’d never attempte…| Oh Good Ale
Belatedly, here are some notes on Mild Magic 2024, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration & promotion of mild. One of the pleasures of Mild Magic is planning proper trips out…| Oh Good Ale
Belatedly, here are some notes on Mild Magic 2024, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration & promotion of mild. This post covers a second group of pubs and bars on the Mild Ma…| Oh Good Ale
Belatedly, here are some notes on Mild Magic 2024, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration & promotion of mild. This year, Mild Magic featured 97 pubs divided into 60+ a…| Oh Good Ale
This is the fourth of four posts about Mild Magic, CAMRA’s annual campaign to promote mild around Manchester. A trip to Stockport – combining mild ticking on my part with craft-related shoppi…| Oh Good Ale