Originally Posted by
sheffield hatter
As it happens, I was also at the Southampton Arms on Thursday - in the afternoon, when it's quiet. Of the eight hand pumps, two had beers from Thornbridge, two were from Buxton and one from North Brewing - as I pointed out to the lad behind the bar, I didn't come all the way from Sheffield to drink northern* beers! - and the Bristol Beer Factory offering was a chocolate mint stout :sick:, which left me with Howling Hops We Buy Teeth 5.5% (an American Brown) and Elusive Brewing Microball 3.7% (a dark MILD). Neither of which were particularly memorable.
* for the purpose of this rant, I'm treating Buxton and Bakewell as being in the north. I do know that they're in Derbyshire and therefore officially midlands.