To bring this discussion back to where we started, I think one of the things that encourages licensees to use tight sparklers and swan necks on beers that weren't ever intended to be served that way...
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To bring this discussion back to where we started, I think one of the things that encourages licensees to use tight sparklers and swan necks on beers that weren't ever intended to be served that way...
I guess that's because you don't like London Pride, but trust me: in the Dove at Hammersmith it was superb.
I think what happens is some of the hop flavour is driven into the head, where it...
Yes, this is the nub of the matter! Beer drinkers have been trained, through advertising like "Whitbread Big Head Trophy Bitter" to believe that beer with very little head on it must have something...
They don't put a sparkler on - it comes out exactly as though pouring straight from the barrel. Not all beers taste great that way.
I found worse than that in Nicholson's White Swan in Covent Garden last week: eight hand pumps, but just two ciders and Northern Monk Eternal IPA available. Apologies from the bar man, with the...
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...
I was there on Thursday evening (27th) between 20:15 and 21:05 - exactly the same situation. Bar blockers not content to just sit and talk but actually leaning towards the hand pumps as if...
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Not been flattened yet - I was there on Friday on one of the Beer & Pubs Forum's "Proper Pubs" trips. As you can see, I went "off piste" as usual and encountered some challenging beers, but any...
Yes, I was aware that it has been under threat for quite a long time (15 years according to the piece in the MEN) but this is looking like the end. The councillor who has objected makes a valid point...
That's good to know!
If you've not been to Nellie's before, please don't let my "disappointment" put you off. It's got to be experienced - and the beer was actually quite good.
Also on Wednesday in Beverley I went to the Dog & Duck for the first time in over a decade. I know some people decry the beer policy (the late lamented Aqualung, for one: "a very dull choice of...
After the disappointment of the Tiger Inn, I made my way through Beverley to the White Horse, also known as Nellie's, in memory of a long departed licensee. This is a Sam Smiths pub, a very old...
On a trip to the East Riding of Yorkshire this week. I stayed just outside Beverley and had been looking forward to doing some of their interesting pubs again after quite a gap. First off was the...
It's easy to be fooled by some of these modern pump clips. I had an imperial stout on keg at the Devonshire Cat this week, which was written up on their blackboard as Gift Boundary. Looking at the...
Could there be any connection between these two apparently unconnected statements? Brewing in bulk with cheaper ingredients? Less attention to detail in a hurry to meet deadlines? Delivering to pubs...
Presumably they're running a replacement bus service between Dent and Ribblehead? You get to see the viaduct better if you're not actually on the train. (This item by a seemingly barely literate...
There's one of those in Shropshire, too. No pub, unfortunately.
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Commiserations! In Derbyshire the buses have a display with the name of the next stop. Some of them have an automated announcement: "We are now approaching Woodlands School", they would have said (if...
I visited the Eagle Barge Inn on the Caledonian Canal when I was cycling in the area back in 2012. Unfortunately the pub was closed at the time of my visit and I always had it in mind to get back...
Bucking Fastard left this review about The Bricklayers Arms
It's a small pub but the outside is adorned with signs showing off the various CAMRA awards that have been collected over the years,so my...
I'm puzzled by the change to Steerage, which the press release says is prompted by the advent of "extra sumptuous hops" that have led to the "market for this style of beer diminish[ing]", so they now...
Soupçon?
Thanks. I've amended my review slightly to reflect this.