h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Port Street Beer House - Manchester - A87722139
Author: Pastey - The Bug Splatting Beast of Trall - U45177

Please be gentle, it's my first entry in years.

I like it. Seems fairly accurate too.

The toilets being on the 2nd floor led to me thinking I'd got back to the ground floor, walking through a door expecting to find the exit, only to be in exactly the same room where I'd said goodbye to pastey a. Minute early.

I'd agree it's an accurate and informative piece.

My gods, this place sounds excellent. I wanna go.

Tactical Nuclear Penguin sounds a bit of a beast.

Punctuation needs addressing, Pastey but otherwise

Good article - I was left wondering how big it is? Is it all in one room or are there seating on the other floors? (Toilets don't count as seating!)

You could possibly some references links to some of the other articles about pubs? Just a thought.

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I'll put in something about size/ seating indeed, a good idea

Like Bluebottle I'd like to know what it looks like.

Tav, I'll take you there when you come over And the offer extends to you too BB.

I can also easily get photos to add to the entry.

And what sort of crowd it attracts. Is it somewhere to go for a quiet drink, or a dance? Is their music, what type, or can you actually hear yourself think.

Would I feel comfortable as a single ?

I thought I covered the sort of crowd it attracts, beer buffs and hipsters

Should mention the tunes though.

>ordering a pint of keg and a pint of cask to drink while the legged beer warms up.
Probably a typo - otherwise, how would you keep your beer under control?

Verdict: I'd love to visit. In other words, well written

Hint or aside, depending on how you look at it: local brewery to me afaik does their brews in kegs - speciality is involving "stiff" from the local forest. Their Birch Brew with birch sap from local trees is a good one. Their IPA, which is a regular brew, was voted Denmarks best some years back.

Hi Pastey!

This is great stuff!

Your second paragraph is going to be mystifying to any but the IT people, so I suggest you reword it as follows:

The relative 'artiness' of the clientele can be estimated by seeing what type of smartphone they use. On the opening night, iPhones outnumbered everything else by a factor of 5 to 1. Since then, however, the ratio is about 50% iPhones, 40% Android-based and 10% all the other sorts. This indicates that the ratio of creative types to IT types and other beer lovers has balanced out.

The cask ales on offer not just change regularly -->
The cask ales on offer not only change regularly

this pub aims to provide something unusual, yet very good on cask too. -- I don't understand this sentence. You've said "in cask" in the previous sentence and "on cask" here. Is that significant? Are you saying that the pub aims to provide something that is both unusual and good?

I'm further confused when you talk about keg and cask as if they were two different things. A keg is a pressurised metal drum, isn't it? So what's a cask?

several are around £12 or £22 mark -- this sounds odd, saying "around 12 or 22". I think it would be better as "some will set you back as much as £22.

Jim Carouso --> Jim Caruso (I checked on the Flying Dog website)

A keg is a pressurised container, a cask isn't. I feel a foot note may be needed

Typo on the name, I was into the third pint by then

I hope it wasn't a third pint of TNP...

No, but I did have a nice pint of an 11% stout in there last night

Alterations made

Maybe this should be the first in a series on the Manchester beer scene? Intrepid guide researchers, risking life and liver to drink the finest ale that Manchester has to offer?

Funny you should mention that...

Phil's already agreed to it, so I take it we can include you too?

My arm could well be twisted!

Are we all happy here? Is there a Scout in the house please?