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WARM WELCOMES AS WE VISIT A THRIVING SHROPSHIRE BREWER AND AWARD WINNING PUBS
It's very much thumbs up from Shane at Stonehouse Brewery for the future Steve Hobman reports from an early springtime sojourn For our first big day out on the minibus this year we visited an old favourite, Stonehouse at Weston, near Oswestry - a brewery we have personally known since their fledgeling days almost 20 years ago. Back then they brewed from a former chicken shed; today it boasts one of the best taprooms in the UK, in our humble, and is successfully brewing new a
stevehobman
Mar 16
Mild Returns ... at least for May
A fine pint of dark mild pours at the Carden village inn - and in a traditional barrel glass too! A beautiful sight. RAISE A GLASS OR TWO...
stevehobman
May 13, 2025


June Tour will visit Chester, North Wales, Liverpool and Shropshire
Join us for four days and four (or five) nights for an exceptional beer sojourn you won't find anywhere else A fine pint of cask in a...
stevehobman
Mar 7, 2025


LEASHOLDER OF ICONIC MANCHESTER PUB GIVES UP LONG FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
Mark West, the businessman leaseholder of Manchester's splendidly historic cask beer and whisky haven, the Britons Protection, has handed it
stevehobman
Feb 3, 2025
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