Wee Beefy's beer and pub blog

 Evening all,                it's with sadness, and sadly less surprise, that I have to mention the death of Ken Mellor, long time landl...

Hullur,       I realise its literally hours before my trip away with the Wee's to Scotland, but I wanted to write this pre trip last p...

Hulloo        Its a good guess that very few readers will have been to the pub, sunk the "special" in the post title, or indeed ...

Hello,         I was recently sent a link to a report by Tash from a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development at th...

Hello,           about this time last week, maybe an hour later, I had sent a tweet to the Red House Sheffield's new and largely unfi...

Hello,          today I had some shocking news about the closure of another Sheffield real ale pub. On Saturday I did overtime and wanted ...

Hello,        I am informed by a number of reliable sources (hoping not to be hoist by my own petard here!) that tonight will be the last ...

Hello there,        it may seem an unusual position to adopt, given my attempted (and almost entirely failed) "Dryvember" experi...

Now then,  just to quickly let you know a few bits of "news".... The long closed Wellington pub in Darnall has had a repaint ...

Now then,         my recent trips to and from the Northern General Hospital have shown a familiar but  unfortunate picture of pub life in ...

I know, I know.      however, I have something to reflect, about how an overheard conversation about a lost boozer (that's a building...

Evenin       yesterday's post focused mainly on the closure of the Hadfield in Sheffield. Not only because it was entirely topical, bu...

Hello     plenty has been written about the reason behind the decline in pub visiting , and it's inevitable side effect,  pub closures...

Hello,       almost all credit, at least in terms of inspiration, must go to Pete Green from the world of writing. His post   yesterday ab...

Hello,    a short post this, via expectation and assumption of inevitability  I had assumed a dire outcome for the  following pub. But it ...

Hello,       following my lengthy yomp around the countryside (and A-roads) around Stretton to find  "The Lodge" I have finally...

Hello,     there's been a pleasing upsurge of interest and coverage of the subject of unspoilt pubs recently. Paul Bailey kicked it al...

Good evening,      I spotted an interesting post on Paul Bailey's blog here  about the resignation from the CAMRA (you've seen th...

Hello,     on Sunday, despite promises of dreadful weather, and the fact that Christingpher was coming for tea and considerable alcohol th...

Morning,         I thought I might write a word or 200 about opening hours today. My indignation at standing in front of a closed Coach an...