Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
They actually like the stuff, it's a tradition thing,
I used to enjoy Bass in Half Moon Inn in the seventies.It was good then,but probably better because there wasn't much else in Durham at the time,apart from Sam Smiths in Colpitts Hotel, and Lorimer and Clarks/Vaux best Scotch, which hardly set my southern tastebuds singing.Theakston's was a rarity, and a glass of Eldridge Pope's Royal Oak at some illegal beer exhibition a cause of great excitement.No,I don't think I'd go back, though I will be,not through choice, in a Marston's pub next month, where a glass of Pedigree might well be consumed.