Stockport's Crown Inn Glory....

A return to sample a few different places in what surely has to be one of the best beer towns in the country. I visited a popular micropub, a newly-opened brewery bar, a traditional pub that is a magnet for real ale afficionados, a lovingly-restored community pub, and an excellent brewery taproom. Here we go....I had been planning to come back to Stockport for a while. All the word seemed to be it was up and coming, new bars were opening, there was a great vibe about the place, and there was some excellent beer to be had other than the local brew Robinsons, whose beers are fine and they have some wonderful pubs, but their erstwhile hegemony of the local beer market had until recent years rendered the town a fairly dull place to come for a drink unless you wanted to drink Robbo's. But the cost of running businesses in central Manchester has escalated in the last few years as the city has grown, and this in turn has enabled suburbs the beer and hospitality scene in general to flourish…