Robinsons pours Unicorn at £1.30 a pint on Saturday 26 September, and 34 pubs on its list are in Stockport borough. Here is every one, and the catch.

Robinsons is selling pints of Unicorn for £1.30 on Saturday 26 September, and 34 of the pubs taking part are in Stockport borough.

The brewery announced the offer on 19 August to mark 130 years of the beer. More than 170 of its pubs across the North West and North Wales are included. The price is a nod to the anniversary rather than a sale: Unicorn was first brewed in September 1896.

The conditions are short, and they matter:

  • one day only, Saturday 26 September
  • £1.30 applies to Unicorn, the brewery’s 4.2% best bitter, and nothing else
  • participating pubs only, and the brewery’s list is the only published one
  • while stocks last, in the brewery’s own words

No opening or closing time is given for the offer, and no limit per customer is published. If you are making a trip of it, ring the pub first.

The 34 Stockport pubs on the list

These are the pubs under the “Stockport” tab on the brewery’s own page, grouped by where they are:

  • Stockport town centre and Edgeley (8): Arden Arms, Bakers Vaults, Puss In Boots, Red Bull, Swan With Two Necks, The Armoury, The Queens, The Alexandra
  • Hazel Grove (4): Flying Coach, The Grapes, Three Bears, Three Tunnes
  • Great Moor (3): Dog & Partridge, The Crown, Travellers Call
  • Marple (3): Hatters Arms, Ring O’ Bells, The Navigation
  • Marple Bridge (2): Royal Scot, Windsor Castle
  • Heaviley (2): Duke Of York, The Blossoms
  • High Lane (2): Horse Shoe Inn, Red Lion
  • Cheadle (2): Red Lion, Royal Oak
  • One each: Church Inn, Cheadle Hulme; Finger Post, Offerton; Union Inn, Reddish; The Friendship, Romiley; The Railway, Rose Hill; The Navigation, Woodley; Davenport Arms, Woodford; Andrew Arms, Compstall

Two of those names appear twice in the borough. There is a Red Lion in Cheadle and a Red Lion in High Lane, and a Navigation in Marple and another in Woodley. Check which one you are heading for.

Chart of the 34 Robinsons pubs serving £1.30 pints, by area of Stockport borough

Why 130

Unicorn is the brewery’s flagship bitter and the reason its site has the name it does. Robinsons says the beer “was born in 1896” and was “originally brewed by Frederic for his father William, at the Unicorn Inn, from where the beer eventually took its name, and where the Robinsons Brewery still stands”. The recipe, the brewery says, “has remained unchanged for well over a century”.

The company itself has been “based in the heart of Stockport for over 185 years” and owns around 250 pubs, inns and hotels.

There is also a competition attached. The brewery is giving 13 people a limited-edition 1996 Stockport County shirt, entered through its Instagram from Saturday 19 September, with winners claiming on the 26th. One note of caution on the brewery’s own page: the headline misspells its beer as “Unicron”.

What it means for you

If you drink cask ale in this borough, the list above is where a £1.30 pint is being poured on Saturday. A few practical points:

  • Go early. “While stocks last” is the brewery’s phrase, not ours, and a £1.30 pint in a town of 34 participating pubs will move quickly.
  • Do not drive to it. If you are planning a few, check trains, trams and roadworks before you set off.
  • If you are driving into the town centre for the Hillgate and Underbank pubs, our guide to parking in Stockport has the tariffs and the free periods.
  • A Robinsons pub that is not on the list is not doing it. The brewery says the offer runs at selected pubs, and the list above is the one it published.

More things to do in the borough are on our what’s on in Stockport page.

Sources: Robinsons Brewery, £1.30 pints to celebrate 130 years of unicorn (19 August 2026), including its list of participating pubs; Unicorn; About us. Pub list checked on 21 September 2026.