Pub Of The Month - December 2023

[ROBCamra]

[Spinko]

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.

[Komakino]

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

[Tris39]

Just one new pub this month and an awful one at that. So by default:

POTM - The Cornershop Bar.

[Spinko]

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

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!

[Mobyduck]

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

[Wittenden]

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.

[Bucking Fastard]

Duke of York.

An honest- to- goodness boozer,not far from the station offering good ale ,my best new pub visit of the month..