Pub Of The Month - July 2020

[ROBCamra]

It's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cheers:

[Tris39]

The Pineapple (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23784/) - an old favourite, just so long as the god-awful hen parties are kept at bay.

[rpadam]

A really good month in the circumstances, with two difficult-to-get-to pubs standing out: in the runner-up spot, the Rhydspence Inn (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/59492/) west of Whitney-on-Wye and at the top, the Cat Inn (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/38620/) in Enville.

[Mobyduck]

The Southampton Arms. (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23788/)

[oldboots]

been in this pub more often than any other this month,

Harrogate Tap (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/81224/)

[sheffield hatter]

George Inn (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/29747/)

A pub in one of my favourite parts of the world, Upper Wharfedale. Only visited once before, when we (me and my partner and our young children) had a dreadfully poor meal on her birthday in 1995. We complained about it and even wrote to the brewery that owned the pub at the time (Theakstons, I believe) without redress. The incident left such a bad (I was going to say taste in my mouth) feeling, compounded by the fact that we split up not many months after, that I had never been back until my recent cycling/camping trip took me to nearby Buckden. Another cyclist who chatted briefly with me as his group passed me near Bolton Abbey said what a good pub it was, so I decided to try it. The tiny bar parlour has barely room for three or four people (with appropriate distancing - and there's another room for diners), and the bar had a perspex screen, but other than that the pub was much as it must always be. I was only going to have a pint, but my first glug of Black Sheep Bitter decided me to have a second and I'm glad I stayed. A brief conversation between me, two other customers and the friendly landlord revealed that we had all lived in Leeds at some stage, though none of us originated there. A trivial coincidence, but it was all part of making this a very pleasant pub experience. That and the beer, of course.

[Tris39]

The Southampton Arms. (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23788/)

And was it as rammed as it has been since reopening on the many passes I made in the first couple of weeks in July?

[Mobyduck]

And was it as rammed as it has been since reopening on the many passes I made in the first couple of weeks in July?

No, far from it but it was a Monday afternoon, 4 other punters in the pub plus another 4 in the garden.

[sheffield hatter]

No, far from it but it was a Monday afternoon, 4 other punters in the pub plus another 4 in the garden.

Afternoon is the only time to visit that one. As I pointed out in my review (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubreviews/23788/?page=2) of 25th August 2011. (What a long time ago that was. When a pint was just £2.95. In London.)

[Thuck Phat]

The Ship (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55297/) in Brancaster.

Beer was good, food was decent and they have the most sorted Covid systems I've yet come across.

[Tris39]

No, far from it but it was a Monday afternoon, 4 other punters in the pub plus another 4 in the garden.

Passed yesterday at around 8.30 and I could have got a place, but it didn't look too comfortable.

[ROBCamra]

Only visited 6 pubs during July, all in Rochdale.

So, as my most visited it's got to be The Baum (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55901/).

I haven't nominated it for several years, so now is about time. :cheers:

[Bucking Fastard]

The Black Horse (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/14545/)

July was a gentle reintroduction to the pub scene ,and this local to me was the best organised from a Covid point of view and had both the best range and best ale condition of the few pubs visited.Proper pub and good pub garden in this summer weather.

[Spinko]

Hope and Union, Stockton-on-Tees. Good beer, good food and relaxed about the stupid guidance (but ticking the box). Back there Friday, and the Dubliners for its reopening.