A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Some strong contenders this month,from York I really enjoyed The Rook and Gaskill and The Waggon and Horsesalong with The Woolpack
From Winchester I was very impressed with The Fulflood Arms. Yesterday in London The Jerusalum Tavern really deliverd and later on Yesterday in Surbiton, I am always liking The Antelope but the pub that stole that particular day and the month a couple of enjoyable drinks in a top notch real boozer. BOTW is The Lamb.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
I'm struggling a bit this month but will go for this one. It's a suburban Holden's pub that is rather off the beaten track and didn't do any guest ales on my visit but it's a great example of an old school regional brewery tied house. Even if it had a guest I would probably have gone for the brewery beer anyway.
If you don't like any of the four Holden's beers you won't like it but I would happily return.
St Aldates Tavern
Oxford has never been the easiest of places to find a great real ale ,but with the sad passing of Far From the Madding Crowd ,this pub came up trumps and delivered a great session .
Just beat off the Old Joint Stock ,which will get another (longer) visit next time I'm in Brum and feeling flush.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
In a thin month for pub going,this pub:Lord Raglan was a welcome port of call on a rare evening excursion.A regular outlet for Goacher's,though this time I had a hopbomb from Westerham.This always was a well thought-of pub, though I never used it as often as I would have wished.
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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.
A trip to Hull earlier in the month provided some fine pubs but the best I found was The Minerva.
I liked the Beehive in St Albans.They have done it up for the better.
The trip to York provided some fine candidates, but in the end it came down to a choice of two. The Woolpack Inn versus The Rook & Gaskill. Barely a cigarette paper between them, I'm plumping for the Woolpack, because as Moby noted, its ordinariness is a major part of its appeal. The sort of place you could settle down for a session and imagine as a local.
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'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.