Media Thread - 2021/22

[andyhinch]

Hahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Fucking lightweight . :)

I’ll refer you to the Macc lads view on J W Lees finest, Willies tastes of piss, wise words.

 

[xgorton]

It really was a top notch drinking hole but no idea as to whats its like nowadays x,Does it still exist as a CAMRA type boozer ?

Must be 30 odd years since last visited.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Not very mate, but I’ve never been a fan, their pubs do good food though.

They are very good pub retailers, but shite brewers.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

It re But I agree that the bitter really was superb. HIC !!!Really was a great pub and I may be wrong but wasn`t it a J.W. Lees House ???

My memory was it was Joe Holtes, god knows I drunk enough of it. Also started in Claremont some days excellent Hyde's but rough as fuck lots of Irish rags drank in there. Great boozers round Maine Rd really miss it.

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

Honest mate I had no problems with Lees ... when it was kept on song. Seriously. Not had it for years so no idea how good it still is ?? :)

It's so much the keeping but that's still important.
Lees, years ago suffered from inconsistency of ingredients. Getting that right was the key thing .
It's a great pint but I accept it's an acquired taste.

 

[blue cigar]

Its still there and it still has great beers. They also do black peas and have a roaring fire on the go, a unique place..

It really was a top notch drinking hole but no idea as to whats its like nowadays x,Does it still exist as a CAMRA type boozer

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

They are very good pub retailers, but shite brewers.

With respect to brewing I disagree.
Cloudwater guys use their yeast and celebrated one of their best

 

[crazyg]

Home or off, the song was much better with the rendition that we really didn`t (and still don`t) give a fuck. ;)

Spot on!

 

[andyhinch]

It's so much the keeping but that's still important.
Lees, years ago suffered from inconsistency of ingredients. Getting that right was the key thing .
It's a great pint but I accept it's an acquired taste.

I’m always suspicious of the phase it’s an acquired taste.

 

[MCFCTrick]

My memory was it was Joe Holtes, god knows I drunk enough of it. Also started in Claremont some days excellent Hyde's but rough as fuck lots of Irish rags drank in there. Great boozers round Maine Rd really miss it.

It was Hydes.

As for Lees, I had the same view of it years back. But then had only had it in the JW Lees pub at the Arndale, which was rank (pub amd beer)
But have found if it's kept right it can be a superb pint. The Blue Pitts Inn, Castleton, Success To The Plough, Marland and Woodhouse Gardens, Woodhouses, Failsworth are three that have consistently top beer on.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

It was Hydes.

As for Lees, I had the same view of it years back. But then had only had it in the JW Lees pub at the Arndale, which was rank (pub amd beer)
But have found if it's kept right it can be a superb pint. The Blue Pitts Inn, Castleton, Success To The Plough, Marland and Woodhouse Gardens, Woodhouses, Failsworth are three that have consistently top beer on.

Sorry got the beers at the Bee Hive and Claremont mixed up old man's memory. Just south of 20 years since I was in either don't suppose their still there.

 

[frothy]

It really was a top notch drinking hole but no idea as to whats its like nowadays x,Does it still exist as a CAMRA type boozer ?

It's the starting point for the Ale Trail, so it was always rammed on Saturdays before lockdown, would imagine its getting busy again now

 

[KPXBLN]

Sorry got the beers at the Bee Hive and Claremont mixed up old man's memory. Just south of 20 years since I was in either don't suppose their still there.

claremont is still there. think it's a Holts now

 

[hammocity]

A long way? There is no where on this earth that is far enough away from that shithole. And yes, before you ask, I have lived there.

Mottram Road is Stalybridge and very desirable, houses around half a million to a full one up for sale at the moment so not the biggest shithole in GM.

 

[KS55]

Hello. Hello. Anyone seen the media thread?

 

[MCFCTrick]

Sorry got the beers at the Bee Hive and Claremont mixed up old man's memory. Just south of 20 years since I was in either don't suppose their still there.

Beehive still standing, but no longer a pub.

 

[bikerblue]

It was Hydes.

As for Lees, I had the same view of it years back. But then had only had it in the JW Lees pub at the Arndale, which was rank (pub amd beer)
But have found if it's kept right it can be a superb pint. The Blue Pitts Inn, Castleton, Success To The Plough, Marland and Woodhouse Gardens, Woodhouses, Failsworth are three that have consistently top beer on.

I remember the Woodhouse Gardens,used to go there years ago with my missus,always stunk of pig shit round there with the pig farms was absolutely gut wrenchng.Not been round there for years wonder if it still stinks as bad.

 

[MCFCTrick]

I remember the Woodhouse Gardens,used to go there years ago with my missus,always stunk of pig shit round there with the pig farms was absolutely gut wrenchng.Not been round there for years wonder if it still stinks as bad.

Pig farm long gone. Houses now. Both pubs expanded and done up. Worth a ride over.

 

[andyhinch]

Hello. Hello. Anyone seen the media thread?

It’s moved to the pub thread, keep up ;-)

 

[hammocity]

Many years ago (true story) way back in the 1990`s I collected Beer Mats and one of the Organisers held a Meeting on Stalybridge" Station in the beer room which was one of the first to sell "Real Ale".
If anyone knows the size (or as it was in those days) try having a Meeting with 50+ people in there.
Before we went back into Manchester 12 of us went into a Curry House next to the station which I am almost certain had the one and only name of "Y".
Can someone please confirm this, but have to say that the beer on Stalybridge Station was wonderful and upon returning back into Manchester we had a couple of pints in a Lees put right inside the centre of town.

It was the Q bar pal, still going and the Curry house was the Akash run by a lovely Asian guy who we knew as “Mr Khan”. His greeting to a group of us who went in almost every Sunday was “pint lager?” Rhetorical question as he poured beers out of cans underneath the beer pump Phoenix Nights style, my first name is Mark, every Christmas we got a card addressed to “Mr and Mrs Mac”, one of our group was single after his partner dumped him, his card one year read “Happy Christmas, Mr”, happy days.