A pub is for life not just for Christmas
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
For the first time I find a dilemma here as there are two distinct and totally different possibilities
This or This.
The choice couldn't be more stark, a classic country pub from an "Old School" regional brewer or a basic room bolted on to the side of a "New Wave" brewery underneath a Hackney railway arch.
As usual it's the beer that wins the argument so it's the London Fields Tap Room.
There aren't many Harvey's pubs better than the Hailsham King's Head (The Cricketers at Berwick springs to mind) and I really feel I ought to visit the two London ones for the first time. After all, it's no longer worth going to Wandsworth for the Young's pubs!
Plenty to choose from after a brilliant tour round Huddersfield-Wakefield, but I think finally ticking the WRRR has to win the day, just! One could happily miss a few trains at this station bar with good beer choice, real fires, a chatty buzz, and even the match in one far corner.
Hmm, I can feel a Brighton-Polegate-Hailsham-Lewes tour coming on....
Well it was going to be a traditional pub the Masons Arms in Teddington which mightily impressed me but on the last day of the month I went into Wetherspoons Hamilton Hall for a swift couple of pint before the last train (just caught it).The sheer grandeur of the building and the beer quality was stunning.
Hand & Shears
Really liked this pub, good ale, friendly welcome.