Southport beer festival

This Thursday marks the start of the three-day Southport beer festival at the town’s arts centre. Always a good event, with good beer, it’s well worth a visit. More details can be found by clicking here.
The local Camra, meanwhile has included The Richmond and the Lloyds No1 bar in this year’s Good Beer Guide and [...]

Where’s the beer?

In between gigs at the Southport Jazz on a Winter’s weekend festival I went hunting for real ale in pubs I don’t usually go to in an effort to broaden my horizons and escape the attentions of an amorous German.
At the Wellington, on Eastbank Street there was no cask, just 3 other customers and [...]

A Mason’s kind of evening

Popped into the Mason’s Arms today and was instantly reminded of why it’s number two on my list of  great local boozers.
In a short time I’d met a man who’d survived being shot in the head, a gang of pro-gamblers and more old-school drunks than you could shake a bag of nuts at. Even the Robinson’s Unicorn ale was [...]

The top five pubs in Southport

On a separate page of this blog, I’ve started compiling a list of the best pubs in Southport in my order of preference.
Want to find out what the top five are, in which order and what I think of them? You may be surprised.
Click HERE to see my top five
Feel free to leave a [...]