This week marks the last issue of Pubpaper for this year and so it seems the perfect time to do a brief review of 2012. The year has generally been a good one personally from a pub and beer position although many in the trade may not agree with me. However the last couple of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hebden bridge’
Pubpaper 688 – The Calderdale Pub Review
Posted: 15th December 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: calderdale, hebden bridge, pubs, sowerby bridge, todmorden
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Pubpaper 639 – A local case study into the pub scene – Hebden Bridge
Posted: 10th January 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: calderdale, hebden bridge, hole in the wall, pub trade, real ale, shoulder of mutton, white lion
Last week I looked briefly back at 2011, and concluded that it had not been a bad year locally regarding the pub scene in Calderdale considering the economic climate, especially in the real ale sector of the local industry, but also for local pubs, of which I observed a number of re-openings this year, especially [...]
Review of the Year – The Pub Scene in Calderdale
Posted: 22nd December 2011 by admin in WritingTags: ale, brighouse, calderdale, dirty dicks, hebden bridge, hipperholme, lewins, pubs, ring o bells, sowerby bridge
Looking back over 2011, its been a good year in the real and craft ale scene at all levels, local, regional and national. Nationally the craft and real ale scene has bucked the general downturn in beer sales over the last couple of years and new breweries are still being created and existing ones expanding [...]
Pubpaper 625 – 55 columns and 41000 words later, my favourite new pubs
Posted: 28th September 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: beer, brighouse, Halifax, hebden bridge, hipperholme, pubs, real ale, Southowram, sowerby bridge
In the second of my holiday articles, I will reflect back on a year of regular writing for PubPaper, all 55 columns and 41,000 words. Sometimes its been easy to write a weekly missive, others its been the equivalent of pulling a tooth out of the horses mouth while it is running the Grand National. [...]