Beer Moose

  A slightly bleak blog photo for what will hopefully be an exciting blog of my weekend up north! Once again I received excellent hospitality at the house of Rach and Jo for another Manchester area away day! If you’re wondering if I’m knight in amber armour keep reading! I travelled up on Friday afternoon and arrived in Stockport at around 17:00. Our first stop was Thread, a Belgium themed bar in the heart of Stockport. Here we met up with Liz and Aaron. Plastics only because the food festival was on. I really liked Thread! Lovely building and full of delicious Belgium beers! Since I was post nights (Rach and Jo were too) I decided to play it safe and have a Chouffe session which I really enjoyed!  Our next stop was Petersgate Tap and old fave of ours and somewhere we could sit down!  A rose between two thorns? I missed the memo to wear black Beautiful  The Dry Irish Stout from Stockport brewers Runaway was simply divine.  From here we headed back to Rach and Jo...

  Things are currently looking good for Cambridge United, which is something that I don’t often get to say! Back on the road last week for a long trip up to Fleetwood, I left Brampton at 08:15 and we arrived around 13:30 and my first thought of Fleetwood was the repugnant smell that met my nostrils as we exited the bus, outside of the Fishermen Friend factory.  Crossing a tram line to get to a stadium is a new one! As we walked to the ground we found it closed up and deserted. It turns out that the stand we had tickets for was closed so we had to walk round to the main entrance. Once inside I checked out the refreshments on offer. Madri was the only draught beer on offer and cost me £6.50! £6.50 in Fleetwood! The popcorn chicken was really nice though!  Me and Dan had standing tickets but were told we could stand if we went to the far end of the stand. I’d heard Fleetwood were a really friendly club but that’s not the impression I got to be honest.  I was pretty bull...

  Hello and welcome to my review of 2025! I really hate to use the phrase rollercoaster of a year because that is almost always used as a negative phrase and obviously a rollercoaster that doesn’t have ups and downs is really boring, I would know. But unfortunately rollercoaster of a year is what I will have to use as I can’t think of anything better. 2024 felt like a more consistently positive year ( I even calculated an anion gap) with one major negative whereas 2025 has been more up and down. Let’s get into it.  We start in January because that’s the first month of the year. The year started in a rather foggy (photo provided for evidence) Cologne with Aaron and Liz ( Full Cologne Blog ). See what I mean After enjoying a few slurps of Kolsch we headed to what’s probably my favourite place on Earth, Phantasialand ( Phantasialand Blog ). There’s nothing quite like riding Taron and Fly in sub zero temperatures and having a beer in between!  What a coaster Aaron where’s you...