Book Review – Brewing in Manchester and Salford

Manchester and Salford are unusual in retaining a batch of long-established family brewers whereas in other major cities and conurbations they have long since been consumed by global operators. So what’s the story?   The recently-published ‘Brewing in Manchester and Salford’ by Deborah Woodman (from Amberley Publishing) seeks to give you the answer to this…

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Book review: ‘A Pub For All Seasons’

My mother-in-law has a strong dislike for the art of Tracey Emin. Although I’m largely ambivalent towards her work I always defend her on the basis that her output is unmistakeably Tracey Emin. It is the same with the writing of Adrian Tierney-Jones. Among all the writers who specialise in beer his voice is the…

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Book Review – ‘Drink Maps in Victorian Britain’

Over the years I’ve created a number of what you could call ‘drink maps’ and they have provided me with the basis for some great pub crawls. But the history of the original drink maps shows that they were designed to reduce rather than promote the consumption of alcohol. In the newly-published book ‘Drink Maps…

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