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Just the one for me, with no drugs involved: The Shakespeares Head, EC1 behind Sadler's Wells. I remember having a couple of pints of Abbot Ale in here late on a Sunday after a gig at the nearby...

Slimmer pickings this week. Also had some cooking lagers just to mix things up:

Bottles
Beerblefish 1892 IPA (6.6%)
Ayinger Winter Bock (6.7%)

Cans
Verdant There Will Be No Intervals (4.5%)...

A delivery of stouts and porters from Beercraft in late Jan / early Feb included 3 of Tiny Rebel's Stay Puft Imperial Stout variants which I decided to give a try to tonight. I thought about calling...

Like the pub itself, the link appears to be a goner...

Bottles
Beerblefish Hoppy Little Fish (3.5%) table beer
Beerblefish Viking Ale (5.0%) winter ale
Beerblefish Beerblefish Stout (5.2%)
Beerblefish 1820 Porter (6.6%)

Not sure where I read about...

Bottles
Dawkins East Bristol Session Porter (4.1%)
Overworks Cosmic Raspberry (4.5%) * an 'oak-aged' sour
Dawkins Foresters Black (4.8%) smoked oat milk stout
Sambrooks Imperial Russian Stout...

Back in the game last week:

Modelo Corona (4.6%)
Fuller's London Porter (5.4%)
Hook Norton Twelve Days (5.5%)
Fuller's 1845 (6.3%)
SALT / Magic Rock Ripe Times (6.5%)

BOTW: Hook Norton...

I'd choose any of the 9 that I selected in this post on a 'Top 10 Pubs' thread which has not long celebrated its second birthday. (Actual title 'Your top 10 pubs)

I'd happy spend an hour or three...

Thought I recognised the name and remembered they had a hand in the resurrection of this pub a few years back, which appeared to be a lost cause as it's a bit of a schlep from Grove itself. Doesn't...

;)

6/12. Kept forgetting some of the questions were of the "which of these are NOT" type.

Hoping for at least 33 so I can join the heralded four-figure club; a club I probably should have joined a while ago, but visits have dropped off considerably in the last two years since I stopped...

Lancashire pubs and gyms among lockdown breaches

The Old Hall

The Bridge

Don't sound like much cop from the reviews too be honest...

Korai Me A River?

And in a reversal of fortune, there's an indie band that named themselves after a (now defunct) chain of Indian restaurants in London: Bombay Bicycle Club.

Winding down a little after Christmastide:

Hook Norton Greedy Goose (4.2%) (b)
Vocation Heart & Soul (4.4%) (c)
Robinson's Trooper (4.7%) (b)
Hook Norton Double Stout (4.8%) (b)
Titanic Plum...

I almost spat my tea out with laughter when I opened that link...!

Cask
XT 8 Porter (4.5%) *

Bottles
Rebellion Winter Royal (5.4%) *
Hook Norton Twelve Days (5.5%) *
Rebellion Roasted Nuts Extra (5.8%) *

Cans
BrewDog Clockwork (4.5%)

Ramped it up this week in the run-up to Christmas:

Ringwood Razorback (3.6%)
Bath Ales Dark Side (4.0%)
Marston Wainwright (4.1%)
Atom Quantum State (4.2%)
M&S / Adnam's Southwold Christmas...

Well, I've learnt a new word today...

Yes, hat well and truly doffed Sir Quinno.

Considering I visited a Sheffield United-esque record-low 14 new visits in 2020, the field is pretty spartan. The below were the highlights:

The Faltering Fullback, London, N4 – pub that has...

Managed a mere 14 new visits in 2020 :(

Maybe they're allowed to stay open until 6 January...?

Not sure. All I know is that OUH = Oxford University Hospitals; I'm taking her to the Churchill in Headington for the jab.



Thank you Will :)

Further to my last post, she received a text message on Christmas Eve from 'OUH*-NHS' with a link which took her to an online form where she entered some details. Within a minute she received a...