Articles tagged with real-ale
Diary – Wednesday 25th February 2015
A busy morning spent job hunting, but failing to catch any, followed by real ale activity and going to the movies. It was the night of a selection process meeting for our real ale group’s region to pick the pubs from our area for inclusion i
Diary – Wednesday 4th February 2015
A hectic day today, with a short visit to the theatre preparing to stage my show later this month, and contacting a new cast member to take on one of the roles in my radio drama. From there, I hit the Central Manchester library for a few hours, be
Beer scoring Systems For Real Ale In The UK
I have always rated films, books, TV shows, bars and beers with marks out of five. With beers my own totally subjective grading system is out of step with The Campaign For Real Ale Society (CAMRA) beer scoring and assessment systems which award ha
Diary – Tuesday 20th January 2015
A good day with a shocking and unpleasant ending for me. I spent the day delivering real ale magazines to local bars for the real ale society I am in, and enjoyed leisurely pints in two of the bars visited. A third had no real ale on, despite clai
Diary – Monday 19th January 2015
Another day when I barely left my keyboard. I got hit with some spam, even on Persona Papers but that was quickly intercepted and annihilated straight away once reported by me. Interestingly it came from an account that was still listed as pending
Radio Show Playlist Diary – Saturday 17th January 2015
My first guest on my radio broadcasts for 2015 was on today, North Manchester CAMRA branch Chair, Steve Davies, making his second visit to my show. This was primarily to discuss the Manchester Real Ale & Cider Festival which runs through the s
Diary – Wednesday 14th January 2015
A quite sedate day writing at home, and later at the library in Manchester City Centre which was very busy as the students have started back at the colleges and already have their course work assignments to study. I left the library to dreadful we
Questions For A Real-Ale Expert On My Radio Show
At a pending radio show I have a guest, Steve Davies (not the snooker player) coming in to talk about real ales as there is a major beer festival looming in Manchester. Steve is my first returning guest as he came in just before last year’s
Diary – Wednesday 7th January 2015
A very inactive morning, but quite a lively evening as I attended the Neil Richardson Awards presentation, an annual North Manchester CAMRA real Ale society presentation for the most traditional, unchanged pub in North Manchester & Salford. Th
