A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Pub of the month:Woodcock Inn
Pub of the year(north):Strathmore Arms
Pub of the year-South:Tiger Inn
This was hard work!!
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"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
Pub of the month Tapping The Admiral
Pub of the year The Gunmakers
New Pub of the Year Cock Tavern just pipping
Tapping The Admiral,two fine pubs and contenders for champion 2014.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
No contest
Harrogate Tap
My pub of the month for December goes to The Royal Exchange a great pub with a lively atmosphere and a very good choice of real ales on the bar.
My December pub is the Harvey's Lord Nelson in Brighton. On a flying visit taking in four GBG pubs near the Station this was by far the best as the others were too small and crowded, too studenty or had a boring beer selection. It's the first time I've tried Harvey's for well over a decade, and in the recent climate where newer small breweries abound, Harvey's beers aren't the attraction that they once were. What really appealed to me about it was that it was exactly as I remembered it rather than being an extraordinary pub with a fantastic ale selection.
I just hope the refurb that was apparently going on doesn't spoil it.
Very interesting Aqualung - used to be always one of the first on our Brighton tour map, but has been so awful on 3 or 4 visits that we gave it a swerve last time. Disinterested management serving Harveys in such poor condition that I had intended (but failed) to suggest that the brewery did a spot check. If it's back on the up maybe they've had a jolt, or moved on...
The beer certainly wasn't awful but the quality in the other three was probably better. This and the Battle of Trafalgar were the only ones I went to that were comfortable (ie I got a seat). Of course Saturday evening a week or so before Xmas was bad timing! I was trying to remember when this became a Harvey's pub as my recollection from the mid seventies was that there were no Harvey's pubs in Brighton, so I referred to Frank Baillie's the Beer Drinker's Companion which confirmed my suspicions. When he wrote the book Harvey's only had 24 tied houses!