I have been using Traveline on my obscure journies to get back to the car from whereever I have taken the boat and have found it much better recently.One word of warning,back in August it was unable to distinguish August Bank Holiday from any normal MondayOriginally Posted by trainman
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
I use Traveline and it is handy but like the TFL Journey planner it doesn't always give the best routes. When I went to Lower Gornal I got a 27A bus from Wolverhampton Bus Station which went all over the place and before I got there I found myself going through Sedgley past the Spoons. It would have been quicker to get the number 1 bus (every 10 minutes) from outside the Moon Under Water in Wolverhampton to Sedgley or Upper Gornal and then wait for another bus or just walk. It doesn't help that Google Maps don't have a scale.I have been using Traveline on my obscure journies to get back to the car from whereever I have taken the boat and have found it much better recently.One word of warning,back in August it was unable to distinguish August Bank Holiday from any normal Monday
Celt Experience - Coco Orange Paganism 7.1%, I was expecting some strong flavours from this Porter by a Brewery whose beers I have enjoyed in the past,all I got was a wishy washy alcohol taste. Poor.
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Northern Monk Refectory
No real ales on despite them claiming on their website that they always have cask on. Just overpriced fizzy, cold craft keg.
After we'd walked out here in the freezing cold as well.
Last edited by ROBCamra; 06-01-2015 at 14:00.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
That's a shocker,it was on my "must visit" list on the back of a few exceptional ales when last up north.Now not so sure......Northern Monk Refectory
No real ales on despite them claiming on their website that they always have cask on. Just overpriced fizzy, cold craft keg.
After we'd walked out here in the freezing cold as well.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Northern Monk Refectory
No real ales on despite them claiming on their website that they always have cask on. Just overpriced fizzy, cold craft keg.
After we'd walked out here in the freezing cold as well.
I understand the prices are a bit exclusive as well, at least it's near some good pubs
Northern Monk Refectory
No real ales on despite them claiming on their website that they always have cask on. Just overpriced fizzy, cold craft keg.
After we'd walked out here in the freezing cold as well.ROB, I think your splenetic review might have been a little unfair, as they had Northern Monk True North and Kirkstall Three Swords on cask today, both in decent nick. Probably still worth a punt BF. Forgot to make a note of the prices though, as by the time the barman had finished sorting out nine 1/3 measures for the party of three in front of me, I'd zoned out!I understand the prices are a bit exclusive as well, at least it's near some good pubs
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Say what you see as they say on Catchphrase.
No ale and the barman
AND it was blowing a gale and f**king freezing and we'd walked out there especially.
I think I let them off quite lightly.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
I know where you are coming from on that one. I walked in the rain to a Good Beer Guide pub in Wolverhampton, and on asking where the real ale was, I was told they only put it on when there is a home football match on!! You have to say what you find - your review. I told the local CAMRA branch. Since then it has been out of the guide and back in again, but I haven't been back there.
Alcohol doesn't solve problems .... but then again, neither does milk.
I couldn't agree more.
Aside, sotto voce: Some of their craft is really rather good.
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