Please vote for whichever venues that you would like to visit on the next PuG crawl.
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Please vote for whichever venues that you would like to visit on the next PuG crawl.
Hopefully the dates will be an easier matter. Easter is late (19th-22nd April) and if it's after that you're getting tied in with the May Bank Holidays.
OK, the vote from the N21 jury is in...
Can I suggest that if there is a clear top 2 (or if we are really fortunate a top 3) , that we use this pole for the next time a visit to a Southern venue comes round, so that we can short cut the selection process....
I'm not sure what you are suggesting here, is it using the same poll minus the winner? That would seem reasonable but it does potentially leave one slot if someone can come up with somewhere.
Most of the discussion was centred around the location of the place beginning with "P" which was starting to drive me up the poll.
I feel sorry for Lewes which is doing about as well as the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I was actually suggesting something quite radical in that if Town A is a clear winner and Town B is a clear second place then we do Town A in March19 and Town B when it is the South's turn again without going to a re-vote at that time.
But I fully appreciate that will not be liked by those who enjoy the cut and thrust and discussion each time..
I actually voted for both of the two current front runners alone but in a years time might have changed my mind completely. For instance, I might have my own day out in Portsmouth during next Autumn and decide it's a load of rubbish. I'd rather see all the venues apart from the winner go in again. That would reduce arguments about Geography or whatever minimal.
And the opening of new micropubs in any town could transform a venue into a possibility but there is the worry of turning up mob handed to a smaller micropub.
This time I actually preferred Southampton to Portsmouth for the micropubs but as you say the centre isn't that great. In recent years I don't think I've been anywhere in Southampton other than the JDWs.
Way back in the 1980s I actually went to the Lewes bonfire night. It was manic and hopeless, you couldn't get near the Cliffe which is the main event but the processions of flaming torches along with the effigies of Thatcher, Reagan, Kinnock and of course the Pope were fun. I wouldn't go again but the town doesn't deserve to end up with Nil Points (in a European accent).
Loving the suggestions, we are only ruling out Lewes, Worthing and London as we have been to Brighton and London recently. We would be up for those in a future PGC. Xx
Surely the point was that we did Brighton in Spring 2018, thus potentially ruling out Lewes and Worthing as being too repetitive because too soon, whereas Bristol was in 2014, if memory serves, so that Bath would only be slightly repetitive because not so soon.
Thanks I would have voted for it myself if I knew everyone would ignore it. I prefer it to Brighton by a long way. In 1979 I believe only one of the pubs was owned by Harveys and that was the Swan. All the other pubs selling Harveys beers were Beards pubs (now mostly GK). I presume people didn't vote for it as there may not be enough outlets for a PUG crawl plus the possibility that they've all been there before.
Those, and the train journey, may have influenced people.
I did half a dozen pubs in Lewes four years ago, including the now reportedly closed Crown, though I did not review them as I was drinking with friends and preferred to join in the conversation. I think our favourites were the Black Horse and the Lewes Arms, though there was nothing wrong, as I recall, with the Brewers Arms, the John Harvey and the Gardeners. I wouldn't mind going back some time, as there were others that we didn't have time for that I would have liked to do. Some of the reviews of Lewes pubs on this site are getting a bit long in the tooth, and your review of the Volunteer is not particularly encouraging!
My recollection is that the bar is (was) fairly small and to the right of the entrance, a pleasant, well-lit room, with the left hand room being the hotel dining room. A decent Harveys Sussex Best. (Incidentally, the prospect of meeting this beer in almost every pub may also have been a factor in the "nul points" scenario: not me, I hasten to add, I like it!)
I'm not sure which is worse - the pub being closed or the pub being given the JDW treatment. The latter is probably worse for the other pubs in Lewes (he said provocatively).
I think you should have perhaps made allowances for the provocation before having a go. I am as fed up as you with the use of the term "boring brown bitter", but I am sure that Moby only meant this reponse in a light hearted way.
It's all too easy to read online postings and think that they're meant more seriously than they are. A conversation in a pub, where one person prefers New England IPA, one likes a raspberry ripple milk shake IPA, one likes a milk stout and one, heaven help him, is into Black Sheep Bitter, takes on a different tone when it's all written down and can be read and re-read by a large online audience. We can give and take offence too easily.
Personally, I can tolerate almost anything, but the thing I just can't stand is that fruit-salad hop, Citra. :sick:
I may have missed it, but have we actually fixed a date for this outing yet ?
That will be stage two of the process,although we could and maybe should start the discussion.Can I suggest sometime between Mid March and Mid April given that folk will need to book advanced train fares /hotel deals and in 2019 Good Friday is April 19th .
The venue choice poll closes on 18th Nov.
I believe not but given that Easter is late it seems to me that there isn't much choice, probably the second weekend in March through to the first weekend in April. I've ruled out the first weekend in March due to not very fond memories of the Beast From The East this year. The second weekend in April would be the one before Easter which might affect rail travel. May would mean contending with Bank Holidays and would be very close to summer.
Edit: I posted this before swing BF's answer, but we seem to more or less agree.
If you're lucky, these tickets are still in a state of turmoil and I've only just got my first tickets for 2019 which are in the second week of January. The venue will be finalised on Sunday and it looks highly unlikely to me that it won't be Portsmouth. For those who need expensive Southern hotels the rapid finalisation of the date could save them lots of money.