Huddersfield - Beer Capital of the UK?

Ah, I had to cycle out to somewhere between some ponds to find a pub that sold Courage Best. Not a great experience all told.

got a night there this friday!! Staying at the George - but not drinking there!

anyone around to meet up?

I wish... have a great time!

How did your visit go? Did you manage to find your way through the maze of wire fencing to the King's Head!!??

There are rumours spreading that the Sair at Linthwaite is currently only offering Copper Dragon beers. Anyone got any first hand experience?

haha! Yes but they had already called last orders!

WE had real trouble finding a drivable route into the square - kept seeing it but not being able to get to it!

(Scream!!!)

Even phoned the hotel saying we can't get in, are now facing up towards the bus station, with railway street blocked off on our right (having come down with it on the left already) asking which way to go. One way systems seems to have been reversed (see google maps) and every other way in closed off. Couldn't find any signs for railway station either.

The girl on reception couldn't tell us.

Scream again.

Found a way in eventually - unsigned from the direction we were travlling in.

Then relaxed!

Sportsman, Spoons, Rat & Ratchett, and the other one near it, the Grove. Good company and great beers!

Can't wait to go again!

But each time we go, we are amazed that the works are still ongoing!! Is that a side effect of recession? Spin the jobs out?

I should have warned you! There are certain regulars who have given up going to the Kings Head until the work in the square is completed. It's not so much the getting there, but the coming back after a few pints and possibly ending up in one of the contractors compounds for the night!

All good. Not a great Spoons fan, but the Cherry tree seems to take real ale seriously.

I know what you mean. It's been in progress for what seems like years. The daft thing is that, when it's all complete, people are going to look at it and say 'so how is it different from what was here before?' The only thing I can see is that Harold Wilson has shifted a little bit futher away from the railway station.

In article , Chris de Cordova writes

Sadly it's the sign of a bloated, incompetent council run by idiots, today's local paper says it could go on for months yet, Kirklees is an abomination which should be disbanded immediately.

Glad you liked the pubs, at least some people here can organise a drinking session in a brewery unlike the council.

Mike

In article , M Platting writes

You've forgotten the 'pink' Chinese flagstones, hideous.

Mike