My top 10 list is very biased towards great real ale and pubs I would stay in for a long session.Point taken about The Cask,it's not much to look at.If the Great Western is also dropped in future then the pubs I've been to in the last four years that would replace these two would be
Guildford Arms,Edinburgh
Black Horse Hotel,Preston
With first reserve The Castle in Macclesfield.
These three pubs are my only 10 scores over the last four years.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Very ugly, but along with the Lyric and Harp, it has the best cask selection in the borough of Westminster and chuck in The Bear too.
Further research indicates that I haven't visited the Earle Arms,Salehurst Halt or Three Stags' Heads for between five and nine years, so to bring some sense of contemporanity I'm adding the following:
Halfway House
The Ypres Castle Inn
George Inn
"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.
I can't recall what I previously posted, and have avoided looking in order to end up copying.
I might name a slightly different ten tomorrow!
Grove, Leeds
Marble Arch, Manchester
Sun Inn, Stockton
Craft House, Lytham
Sheffield Tap
Wigan Central
Moorbrook, Preston
Magic Rock Tap, Huddersfield
Cafe at the top of Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth
Maltings, York
And now I may permit myself to see my other choices í ½í¸ƒ
So this was an interesting exercise. I uhhmed and ahhhd but in the end I had to knock a couple out due to the sheer amount of time that's elapsed since I either last went in or from when I last heard about the place from a trusted source.
So, those who keep their place:
The Bell Inn Aldworth
The Whalebone Hull
The Strugglers Inn Lincoln
Beacon Hotel Sedgley
And our new entries:
The Fat Cat Norwich
Kay's Bar Edinburgh
Bridge Inn Topsham
The Ship Inn Fishguard
Black Horse Preston
Big 6 Halifax
I'm also becoming a harsher marker as I age. I suspect a few 9's I've scored over the past 5 years may well have been 10's back in the early 2010's.
Last edited by Quinno; 15-02-2023 at 16:23.