One of the pleasant surprises about living here is the diversity of lots of great beers, craft beers of every varietal.
Before I moved to America I thought it would all be diluted horse piss, Budweiser, Miller light, Coors, etc. And while they are all here, I haven’t drank any of that but instead have enjoyed numerous microbreweries and craft beers, local, regional, etc.
There are lots of bars to sample a huge variety, and also stores, such as Total Wine, with many hundreds of options on sale.
Sadly, the average pubgoer still consumes mass market rubbish: Carling, Stella, Carlsberg, etc, although independent (or “craft”) beers are gradually becoming more popular.
There are two excellent microbreweries in Baltic Triangle:
The other thing I find in Liverpool is you don’t have to go far to find a decent selection of beer. At least in the city centre. Once you get out to the more characterful pubs in the suburbs it’s more a case of which piss is the cheapest.
You go out in South London or East London and (apart from the hipster wankster bars) most people will tend to go for whatever is cheapest. I bet Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham are all similar in that once you get out of the centre of the city, the choice in what booze people drink will often be linked to what is the cheapest pint
Southgate I think is a good international manager but I don’t think it crosses all the time and Man Utd really doesn’t seem the right fit for him considering it is a club with so many egos.
I do think Southgate has underachieved with England. Previous coaches with the exception of Sven perhaps have been so poor that maybe the benchmark is set too low.