Forget The GBG – This Is The Bass GBG 2020

The GBG is officially the second best publication for beer lovers on the market after Ian Thurman’s Bass Directory. Along with fellow Bass aficionados Martin, Mudgie and Leicestershire guru Pete, as well as the ‘other’ Martin (from Stoke on Trent) I am in the Bass Appreciation Society (as many acronyms you can think of starting…

Another Ten Midlands Towns To Drink In You (Might) Not Have Heard Of

Not the catchiest post title I know but my publishers have been pushing me for another piece of work. The clamour has been greater than the surge to buy either Michael Owen or David Cameron’s book so I have finally bowed to public pressure. Of course, in my last post I was waxing lyrical about…

Sometimes You Do And Sometimes You Brew

Spoiler alert:  This post isn’t about Brew XI. Just before Russ points out that this title is the lead to the M&B Brew XI advert from the 80s, I have to confess it is a tenuous link almost as loose as Martin’s scurrilous attempt to draw Birmingham City fans into his blog by using their…

Hells Bells It’s The Seven Wells

With the new arrival of the 2020 GBG sending tickers into a frenzy as they plot various routes to reach far flung boozers then it’s a comfort to know that the Midlands still has plenty to offer on my relative doorstep. Yep, that’s right, a good old fashioned gloat as I know how much Martin,…

Lazy Sunday Afternoons In Burton

This is a short post but just to let everyone know sanity is all around despite the constant diatribe of B******t from politicians about B****t. With all the bitterness and rancour from a minority of the country’s population currently boring everyone senseless then it was the prefect time to find a civilised throwback boozer. It’s…

A Loughborough Double

Back to work has meant a blogging hiatus but with the fourth test due to start tomorrow then it seems like a perfect time to recall a jaunt to Loughborough the best part of two months ago. Not sure why some pubs lend themselves to immediate blogging yet others just stay on the backburner for…

Great Pub Names #2: The Excavator

If there was a better sight in sport this summer than Ben Stokes hitting a boundary to win the Third test against Australia then I can’t recall it. Hang on, Jos Buttler taking the bails off to run out Martin Guptill in the World Cup Final about six weeks earlier probably was and cricket really…