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 ‘sowerby 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 679 – Real Ale = Real Money in the Till
Posted: 15th October 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: brighouse, calderdale, Cider, Halifax, pub, real ale, sowerby bridge
It is very easy to get trapped into a cycle of visiting the same pubs repeatedly, for most people this is not an issue, in fact it is behaviour like this which keeps many local pubs profitable. Two or three pints does not sound much, but repeated 2-3 times a week plus a couple of [...]
Pubpaper 671 – The Works Ale House and the Rushbearing Festival
Posted: 21st August 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: puzzle hall inn, real ale, rushbearing, sowerby bridge, Works
Travelling from country to country with long periods away from home were all part of a successful career in the hospitality and event industry for Sara-Jo Cooper 8 years ago. However part of her yearned to spend more time in her beloved Sowerby Bridge, an old ex industrial Yorkshire town in the Calder Valley. With [...]
Pubpaper 669 – Bar staff, the critical link in the customer service chain
Posted: 3rd August 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: big 6, Halifax, lewins, sowerby bridge, the works
A couple of months ago I wrote about the need, both legally and from a beer point of view of a good landlord. However it is the bar staff that are the face of the pub to most customers. From bartenders to duty managers, bad bar staff can result in poor quality beer being delivered [...]
Pubpaper 641 – Good Pub, Bad Pub, Unexciting Beer
Posted: 22nd January 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Black Sheep, fullers, guinness, hambletons, john smiths, real ale, sowerby bridge, stout, tasting, the works
Last week I mentioned the two questions posed by one of my fellow bloggers boakandbailey, which, to recap were 1) In a strange pub with well kept mainstream cask ales, but a distinctive range of keg beers, which would you choose and 2) In the same circumstances, if there were mainstream keg beers, but an [...]
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. [...]
Rushbearing Pub Map for 2011 Festival
Posted: 1st September 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: rushbearing, sowerby bridge, tube map
This map appears was due to appear in issue 622 of Pubpaper’s Guide to the Rushbearing Festival taking place on 4th – 5th September in Sowerby Bridge. See http://www.rushbearing.com/ for more details