Seems a good place to celebrate my return to the land of the living, 'specially as I have a serious contender, Cairngorm's Wildcat. It may not be the Beast, but like the real thing, it punches well over it's weight.
...It's good to be back..........
Seems a good place to celebrate my return to the land of the living, 'specially as I have a serious contender, Cairngorm's Wildcat. It may not be the Beast, but like the real thing, it punches well over it's weight.
...It's good to be back..........
Last edited by runningdog; 24-06-2010 at 19:12. Reason: I still can't control me bluidy fingers..
Pubs are a hobby, real ale is a passion. Oh, and like me dogs, fear no evil..........
Good to have you back 'rd' - drunken typos and all!Originally Posted by runningdog
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Had a decent session tonight, trying six different beers:
Clark's 'Westgate Gold'
Ilkley 'Capello's Glory' [We'll see on Sunday!]
George Wright 'Cheeky Pheasant'
Fernandes 'Malt Shovel Mild'
Fernandes 'Chrome Dome'
Gales 'Festival Mild'
Probably the Cheeky Pheasant, by a nose, at the moment.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Sadly theres No Beer of the week for this week As I cant have Any beer Till NEXT Friday night. Thats ! 13 Days going without a Beer. I would have gone from Last Saturday Till Next Friday without a Beer But I will make up for it over next weekend.
Don't You just hate Pubs that say
( We don't stock any Real Ales as theres Just no call for it.)
Blimey you poor sod !Sadly theres No Beer of the week for this week As I cant have Any beer Till NEXT Friday night.
And just to rub a large pile of sodium chloride into a gaping wound , don't you just love the World cup early stages with games every night. This means trips out to the pub every night.
Obviously a session to accompany the England game, which was then followed by a trip up to central London last night to try and watch the Holland game in the De Hems Dutch bar in Covent Garden area. We failed to get in as it was rammed by 6.00PM , but the pub 200yds down the road we encamped to soon filled up with the Dutch overflow , so a good night was had.
Tonight will be a venue closer to home and then on Saturday we're back up to Leicester Square to watch the first of the last 16 games up there.
And then of course Sunday will be the big one in my Winchmore Hill local
And to get back on thread, my local and quite a few of the London venues I've been in this week have had the Shep Neame 4-4-2 Ale brewed just for the World Cup with its St Georges Cross handpump design, which I've been drinking out of patriotism.
Fortunately it's a decent seasonal summer beer, so it goes down as my beer of the week.
p.s. Alesonly, if my memory is correct from a previous thread I recall you being something to do with ticketing on the trains. If so any chance of you slipping me a pass ,as all these bloody one day rail cards are costing me a fortune at the moment.....
Work is the curse of the drinking Class - Oscar Wilde
Last week was spent on the annual lads booze cruise (WAGS excluded) which this year was based on the canals and rivers of Yorkshire.Starting in Sheffield we also visited Doncaster,York,Ripon including a few beers with oldboots,Castleford and finishing in Huddersfield so you can see the BOTW was always going to be a tough decision.Special mention to Rooster's Yankee and Five Towns Brewery Bodyline but the outstanding BOTW just has to be Marble Brewery Summer in The Grove ,Huddersfield.Last year the crew also voted best ale supped from the Marble Brewery and those boys certainly can brew well across a number of beers styles IPA,Ginger,Chocolate,Stout.Fantastic.
Sounds like you must have been pretty close to Chez Hearty at some stage. Sorry to have missed you. Always up for meeting fellow forum members, finances permitting.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
As I didn't manage to get to get to the pub once whilst in Essex (don't ask) The Cheeky Pheasant is my BOTW. Mind you if it was based purely on volume drunk it would go to Morland 'Speckled Hen'. I drank so many bottles, on Fri & Sat, I lost count!
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I'll try and get the reviews on here shortly.Next time I move the boat from Mirfield ,I will have my sons with me and the good wife is none too keen for me to encourage the younger one into the wicked ways of drinking real ale,so there will be little pub action on the trip up to Standedge Tunnel and then through the flesh pots of StalyVegas.
After a week that involved a lot of Courage Best I made a last minute bid to find something a bit different on Sunday evening and got myself a Great Heck beer that I'd been hoping to find some day - so my BotW is Dark And Very Enjoyable
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