I was gearing up to write the big e-mail about how this comic, and then this podcast, might have saved my life. But the last four episodes of negativity towards this COMIC FOR CHILDREN is making me glad it is over.
Crikey gang. I hope the last size parts aren't as negative as the first four.
Serious Brewing have closed. We’ve had them on the bar for years and their Moonlight stout was a classic. Yet every month we get emails from new breweries. With pubs closing there seems to be more breweries chasing fewer pubs. This is not sustainable IMO. @rogerprotz.bsky.social
Potential spider egg flavouring
I was, but they were all dead luckily
This isn't awful either. Just thin. The intended taste is lingering in the background, at a time when we hadn't had 7000 barrel aged stouts.
Yes those are caught spider carcasses up the side of the bottle. A whole design team couldn't have made these bottles look this spooky
Well the Brett has taken over this. There is no Muscat sweetness and it is all gooseberry. But it does very much taste like a bretted gooseberry Belgian pale, so I guess it has held up well. Very flat though but drinkable
An aerial view of two bottles in a battered cardboard box surrounded by cobwebs
Although I'm scared to put my hand in the box to be honest. Those bottles are not alone
A battered cardboard box that reads To øL Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and has two bottles inside
Found these forgotten Beavertown & To Øl relics in my shed today. Think I'll crack them open. I haven't had anything aged for too long since the days that we had a segment for it on the Pod.
I think, judging by the discolouration in the labels, these may have spent some time in direct sunlight so..
A pint of Murphys Irish Stout ontop a bar with blurred pub background
They are getting all the heat at the moment for feeling like the new town centre Vape Shop, but we have just spent a very enjoyable couple of hours in one of those Manchester Irish bars.
Football, Irish dancing, live music, and Murphy's... I'm struggling to describe anything else required.
A glass of stput in a revolting tulip glass with SA'YLORS brand on it, on a wooden table with pub tiled floor behind
New staff on in the pub. Apparently I need to have a gentle word with them about my preferred glass shape but, more importantly, my feelings about a particular beer brand.
I started writing about how much I dislike content creators in pubs.
One of many posts that I've started in recent months, and then decided that I can't be bothered censoring for a 2026 human race.
2014 humanity would have loved it though.
Pale and from a cask will do for me
A pint of golden beer glistening in the sun on a marble bar top
Summertime cask beers are back
The original Leeds bar was probably my fave, alongside original Edinburgh. They were the Spoons of Craft for a while - guaranteed decent beer in a new town/city if you didn't know anywhere else
Original Leeds one was one of my favourite bars in general at one point
That is good to hear
Yeah I used the Manchester one a lot when it first opened in about 2012. And I always started with a 5am Saint and then sat back to peruse the rest of the board
I'm just thinking of all the excellent staff I've come across over the years. And how none of them will get to give their bars, friends, regulars, or even themselves, a send-off. This blows.
Who am I kidding? It is 2026. Of course the context will be twisted.
Though I've not been in one for a number of years, I've so many fond memories from a number of Brewdog bars. I wonder if I can write some of them down without being lambasted for positively eulogising about the company.
They are getting better but I'm too impatient for simple things like *file too big*.
Hmmm okay... although autocorrect changed the word I actually used to wonky. I'll see how we get on from here
Not used here much because it has been wonky about me uploading pictures. And, if I were to give the other place credit, that wasn't an issue there. I'll trial one from the weekend to see if it is worth it...
Even though I knew that the pub had been somewhere that I had always utilised as a place to grieve, I never *knew* that until these words.
We very selfishly have quite an important home football game that day, but I will let you know how my post match pans out, as this sounds wonderful
I've got used to all (suburban) beer prices beginning with a £4.... when it moves to the £5... it is an extra shock.
But £3.60 sounds marvellous
Obviously no shade on the pub etc... I've just got on with it before now amd never felt shocked.
This was a shock
£5 for a pint of Millstone in the Tameside area. FIVE whole pounds.
I think this was the moment that, even I, said "... that actually is a lot of money for a pint."
Two third glass of golden beer on top of a wooden barrel
Pagan Arms, Newquay
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It is a shame that it sounds brilliant and like something I'd hate now. Such a shame