Oh Good Ale

Q: So CAMRA have changed their beer scoring system… A: That’s not a question, but yes.

Here’s one I prepared earlier… I published this blog post in April, intending to write a follow-up in a week or two.

In the course of this year’s Mild Magic, I had 25 different milds from 22 breweries; Brightside, Holt’s and Thornbridge were the breweries offering more than one.

I haven’t read Martyn Cornell’s Porter and Stout, but I wanted to join this Session anyway, largely to pay my respects to Martyn.

Imagine a pub.

This is the fifth in a series of five posts about 2026’s Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA‘s annual celebration of mild, covering a few separate trips out: Macclesfield, Urmston, Burnage and, er, Fallowfield.

This is the fourth in a series of five posts about 2026’s Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA‘s annual celebration of mild, covering Wellington Road, the Wilmslow Road and the last few town centre pubs.

This is the third of a few posts about 2026’s Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA‘s annual celebration of mild, covering Droylsden, Stalybridge and yet more town centre pubs.

This is the second of a few posts about 2026’s Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA‘s annual celebration of mild, covering Sale, Altrincham and some more town centre pubs.

This is the first of a few posts about 2026’s Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA‘s annual celebration of mild.