A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A cracking country pub:Rock
"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.
The Antelope, nice pub with a good range of beer.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
My nomination:
Abbots Mitre
The Gardeners Arms,in the Oxford backstreets down Jericho way.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
My nominations is the Station at Codsall. It does the four main Holden's beers and two guests which on my visit three weeks ago were Sarah Hughes Snowflake and an Elderflower pale by Purple Moose, I've still got eight Holden's pubs to visit but I'm not expecting any of them to come even close to this one or the Great Western in Wolverhampton.
A day out in Sheffield, plus a couple of random new ones, means I have 12 to choose from this month, a first for me. Virtually impossible to split the big hitters, but on the day I just loved the feel of Shakespeares. Although, everything was definitely a bit hazy by the time 'trainman' and I got there!
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
The Brass Monkey has the more characterful interior but Usher's Of Edinburgh wins courtesy of the extensive keg selection
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
No competition in January.
POTM Rugby Tap Room. Rugby's first micropub, opened in December last year and already excellent.
47 new pubs done in January and lots of visits to Nottingham pubs makes this a hard decision,i liked the Barrel Drop in Nottingham and the Marsh in Cleckheaton plus 2 Samuel Smiths pubs but i have finally decided to go for The Old Vic a really nice Ossett Brewery pub with a good choice of real ales on the bar.
We are all equal,but some are more equal than others