A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Trips to Preston, Kendal, and Southport
The Lakeside Inn, Southport. I'm pretty sure I visited here late 1990s as a teenager and it doesn't seem to have changed much. Advertises itself as The Smallest Pub when it's clearly nothing of the sort now! Two pints while hiding from a downpour New Year's Eve lunchtime.
A training course oop North at the start of the month gave me a chance to explore some good 'uns. A revisit to Wigan Central didn't disappoint, neither did a quick pints in a couple of Bolton's Heritage pubs. In the end, a two-way slug-out between Wigan's Silverwell and Bolton's Sweet Green Tavern, with the latter shading it by a nose, due to the better beer quality.
POTM: Sweet Green Tavern
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
Just one new pub this month and an awful one at that. So by default:
POTM - The Cornershop Bar.
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I worked on Thynne St for three months between terms in summer 2003 and the Sweet Green was our after-work local! It got very mixed opinions, but we were very young.
And I had a pint or two there on one of my 40th celebrations in Nov 2022.
I don't think it'd be to everyone's taste!
Two new pubs in December, one not the best but the the other ticks my beer and pub requirements and will almost certainly be my most visited pub of the coming year.
The Borough Beer House
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Unusually for me,three new visits in December:two distinctly so so, and The Rose & Crown, a cracking Harvey's pub,providing Harvey's Sussex xxxx Old Ale and Armada.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
Duke of York.
An honest- to- goodness boozer,not far from the station offering good ale ,my best new pub visit of the month..
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson