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237 - January 2004
BACK TO CASK - Switch Back To Real Ale With New Boddies
National Pubs Week Set To Break Records - Licensees Urge To Take Part In Celebration
MAASTRICHT - Ben Zwierink Takes The CAMRA Guide To Belgium and Holland For A Test Drive
Tetley's Supplies Threatened By Strikes
Pots, Plants and Fine Ales
Real Ale In A Bottle - Welcome News For Armchair Drinkers
BOOK REVIEW - Stockport's Taverns and Tales by Edna Kitchen and Phil Rowbotham
BOOK REVIEW - City Life Food and Drink Guide 2004
Peak Practice with Robin Wignall
Pub Grub - The Horse and Farrier in Gatley with John Clarke
Ken's Kitchen - Tripe With Cassis
The Tasting Panel - Porter and Stout
Pub Of The Month - Victoria on Hall Street in Offerton, Stockport with Chris Wainwright
Stagger - Burnage and Heaton Mersey with Jerry Wicken
Curmudgeon - The Mask Slips - Law-Abiding Rife
238 - February 2004
ARDEN ARMS IS LOCAL PUB OF THE YEAR - Top Award For Stockport Heritage Pub
... AND THE CROWN IS RUNNER-UP
Sleeping Giants Wake Up To Real Ale Revival - Roger Protz Asks The Questions
Stockport Beer & Cider Festival Moves To New Home
National Pub Week
The Belgian Belly - New Beer Shop On Wilbraham Road In Chorlton
Peak Practice with Robin Wignall
National Winter Ales Festival
Pub Grub - Thie Railway on Great Portwood Street in Portwood, Stockport
Ken's Kitchen - Deep Fried Rags With Sixtus
Desert Island Beers -
Pub Of The Month - Thatched Tavern on Stanhope Street in Reddish, Stockport with Jim Flynn
Stagger - City Centre West with Mark McConachie
Curmudgeon - Live And Let Live - Millers' Kitchen - The Effingham Arms
239 - March 2004
NEW BREWERY FOR GLOSSOP - First Brewery In Town For 90 Years
COMING UP - Stockport Beer and Cider Festival
Stockport & Manchester Mild Challenge 2004
Scottish and Newcastle Snaps Up Caledonian Brewery
Micro Brewery News - Focus On Marble Brewery
Pub Grub - The Prince Of Orange, Warrington Street Wellington Road, Ashton-U-Lyne with Mark McConachie
Ken's Kitchen - Simple Beer Soup
The Tasting Panel - Organic Bottled Beers
Pub Of The Month - Royal Oak on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury, Manchester with Stuart Ballantyne
Stagger - Cale Green, Heaviley and South Hillgate with John Clarke
Curmudgeon - All Gastro, No Pub - A Tasty Example - Grabbing Attention
240 - April 2004
WITCHWOOD UNDER THREAT! - Award Joy Clouded By Demolition Plan
Massive Threat to Cider and Perry
Making Music - Details of Stockport Beer & Cider Festival Entertainment
OT ABROAD - Opening Times visits Ashton-Under-Lyne
Stockport and Manchester Mild Challenge 2004
Trafford & Hulme Branch Pub of the Season - Knott on Deansgate in Central Manchester
Mild in Stockport and Manchester
Poynton British Legion - An Oasis In The Desert
Pub Grub - Bar Centro on Tib Street in Manchester
Ken's Kitchen - Somerset Sausages
The Tasting Panel - North-West Beers
Pub Of The Month - Sidings on Broom Lane in Levenshulme, Manchester with Dave Hanson
Stagger - Return To Didsbury with Paul Moss
Curmudgeon - Drinking In History
241 - May 2004
ROBBIES REVAMP - New Look For Local Beers and Pubs
NATIONAL CAMRA AWARD FOR OPENING TIMES
Swinging The Axe - National brewers close two major breweries
FESTIVAL FEVER - Countdown Underway To Stockport's Main Event
RAZ + U26 = Fun
Pub Grub - Pack Horse Inn on Mellor Road in New Mills
Pub Of The Month - Lass o' Gowrie on Charles Street in Manchester city centre
Curmudgeon Sold Down The Forth? - Turn It Off!
242 - June 2004
RECORD BREAKER! - 18th Beerfest Biggest And Best Yet
MIGHTY OAKS - Opening Times Hits 20
A Round In The Town - 20 Years A Go
Brewery News - You Couldn't Make It Up
Around In The Town - Today
Pub Of The Month - Bakers Vaults in Stockport Market Place with John Clarke
Stagger - Heaton Norris in Stockport with Peter Edwardson
Curmudgeon - Blown Off Course - Drink Too Cheap Shock
243 - July 2004
Three Way Attack On Pubco Ties - New Call For Guest Beer Rights
Cask Champions - Interbrew UK (Boddingtons)
Featured Pub - The Sportsmans Arms, 105 Strines Road, Strines
A Round In The Town - 20 Years Ago. A look back at a Clayton stagger from bygone days.
The Tasting Panel - American Beer (Goose Island Honker's Ale, Anchor Brewing Co. Steam Ale, Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre, Alaskan Brewing Co's Smoked Porter, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale)
Pub Of The Month - Legh Arms, Ashton New Road, Openshaw
Stagger - Rusholme & Fallowfield In May
Curmudgeon - Keep Your Cool
244 - August 2004
Greater Manchester Pub of the Year - the Arden Arms
Return of National Winter Ales Festival to Manchester
A Round In The Town - 20 Years Ago. A look back at an Openshaw (and environs) stagger from bygone days.
Real Ale In A Bottle
Pub Grub - The Lowes Arms, 301 Hyde Road, Denton
Pub Of The Month - Navigation, Lancashire Hill, Stockport
Stagger - In and around Shaw Heath
Curmudgeon - The Unpalatable Truth
245 - September 2004
Local brewers overtake Nationals
Brewery to bar - beer distribution by Neil Worthington Part 1
Beerienteering
Pub Grub - Royal Oak Didsbury
Pub Of The Month - New Victoria, Longsight
Stagger - Offerton
Curmudgeon - Dominoes In The Smoke Room - Running The Gauntlet
246 - October 2004
Axe falls for Boddingtons
Brewery to bar - beer distribution by Neil Worthington Part 2
Cider Month - Cider & Perry feature
Wonderful Copenhagen - beer drinking in the Danish capital
Tasting panel - organic beers
Pub Grub - Tiviot, Stockport
Pub Of The Month - Horse & Farrier, Gatley
Stagger - Hyde Road, Gorton
Curmudgeon - Tall Poppy Syndrome - Cronyism
247 - November 2004
Boddingtons protest
Ken's Kitchen - Chicken in perry
Day out in Macclesfield
Pub Grub - John Millington, Cheadle Hulme
Pub Of The Month - Kingsway, Levenshulme
Stagger - Hazel Grove South
Curmudgeon - Blowing Hot And Cold - Minimising Disorder
248 - December 2004
Locals fume over smoking ban
Lass O'Gowrie runs out of gas
Millstone Brewery's 1st birthday
Enter the dragon - report on Copper Dragon
Walk on the dark side - review of dark/winter beers
Tasting panel - unusual flavours and/or ingredients
Pub Of The Month - Rising Sun, Hazel Grove
Stagger - East Manchester
Curmudgeon - Health And Hypocrisy - The Moon Drowned