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29-11-2011, 10:40
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It was 11:45 in the morning at the Sheffield Tap and we couldn’t get served.
Two harassed bar staff — one of whom was a woman with a moustache (Movember (http://uk.movember.com/)) — were trying to deal with a four-deep crowd of football fans and beer geeks at the bar. One bloke wanted to taste a few things. The bar staff were patient about it but the punters behind him weren’t. A couple of low-key rows broke out: “Don’t let that bloke push in front of you! You were there first!”; “No I wasn’t, you nobhead. Shut up!”
Eventually, squeezed into a corner with our Thornbridge Pivni (“Possibly the best breakfast beer in the world” — Reluctant Scooper (http://www.reluctantscooper.co.uk/)), we wondered whether, when this pub first opened a couple of years ago, anyone ever expected it to be this busy at any time, let alone before midday.
The market for craft beer (http://boakandbailey.com/when-we-say-craft-beer-we-mean/) bars isn’t saturated yet. If there’d been another one a few doors down, we reckon that would have been full, too.
Tasting notes (all Thornbridge): Pivni (3.7%) was delicious — how we falsely remember Summer Lightning tasting (http://boakandbailey.com/2011/11/15/pale-but-not-so-interesting/); Black Harry (3.9%) was one of those milds that’s coy about it, pleasant enough, but lacking oomph; Sequoia (4.5%) was our favourite, light-bodied and exotic-tasting — what Ewoks would drink; and Versa (5%) was a Schneider-alike with big banana aromas and lots of toffee flavour.
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It was 11:45 in the morning at the Sheffield Tap and we couldn’t get served.
Two harassed bar staff — one of whom was a woman with a moustache (Movember (http://uk.movember.com/)) — were trying to deal with a four-deep crowd of football fans and beer geeks at the bar. One bloke wanted to taste a few things. The bar staff were patient about it but the punters behind him weren’t. A couple of low-key rows broke out: “Don’t let that bloke push in front of you! You were there first!”; “No I wasn’t, you nobhead. Shut up!”
Eventually, squeezed into a corner with our Thornbridge Pivni (“Possibly the best breakfast beer in the world” — Reluctant Scooper (http://www.reluctantscooper.co.uk/)), we wondered whether, when this pub first opened a couple of years ago, anyone ever expected it to be this busy at any time, let alone before midday.
The market for craft beer (http://boakandbailey.com/when-we-say-craft-beer-we-mean/) bars isn’t saturated yet. If there’d been another one a few doors down, we reckon that would have been full, too.
Tasting notes (all Thornbridge): Pivni (3.7%) was delicious — how we falsely remember Summer Lightning tasting (http://boakandbailey.com/2011/11/15/pale-but-not-so-interesting/); Black Harry (3.9%) was one of those milds that’s coy about it, pleasant enough, but lacking oomph; Sequoia (4.5%) was our favourite, light-bodied and exotic-tasting — what Ewoks would drink; and Versa (5%) was a Schneider-alike with big banana aromas and lots of toffee flavour.
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2011/11/29/mid-morning-crowds-at-the-bar/)