Does a beer in a beer garden count as a new pub tick?

[ROBCamra]

Personally I don't think it counts and I'd have to revisit and enter the pub before I would consider it ticked.

Also, how do you post a valid review, if all you've seen of the pub are from benches at the rear?

I know people all have their own rules about ticking, but not actually going into the pub doesn't feel right to me.

[Mobyduck]

Personally I don't think it counts and I'd have to revisit and enter the pub before I would consider it ticked.

Also, how do you post a valid review, if all you've seen of the pub are from benches at the rear?

I know people all have their own rules about ticking, but not actually going into the pub doesn't feel right to me.

I agree.

[sheffield hatter]

I wasn't planning on going to any pubs that are new to me. If it turns out that I do, I'll let you know whether it constituted a tick or not!

[bcfczuluarmy]

Nope not a tick you are effectively just wasting your time and money even if you enter the pub to use the toilet and think that'll do as a tick, it doesn't in my view. But then I hate beer gardens anyway and now a marque in a garden/car park doesn't make me ecstatic either.

[oldboots]

Personally I don't think it counts and I'd have to revisit and enter the pub before I would consider it ticked.

Also, how do you post a valid review, if all you've seen of the pub are from benches at the rear?

I know people all have their own rules about ticking, but not actually going into the pub doesn't feel right to me.

My view as well, if you count drinking in a pub garden you may as well count drinking in a park opposite an offy.

...But then I hate beer gardens anyway and now a marque in a garden/car park doesn't make me ecstatic either.

With you there mate, I've never been a fan of al fresco drinking at the best of times and April in Britain doesn't appeal given the vagaries of the weather, and as for ID cards by the back-door; forget that.

I wasn't impressed with much of the table service etc between lock downs either and after over four months of drinking in peace and never paying top dollar for a pint of vinegar, I suspect it will be a while before I'm back in a pub.

[Wittenden]

My view as well, if you count drinking in a pub garden you may as well count drinking in a park opposite an offy.




With you there mate, I've never been a fan of al fresco drinking at the best of times and April in Britain doesn't appeal given the vagaries of the weather, and as for ID cards by the back-door; forget that.

I wasn't impressed with much of the table service etc between lock downs either and after over four months of drinking in peace and never paying top dollar for a pint of vinegar, I suspect it will be a while before I'm back in a pub.

Tend to agree. I don't mind a pint outdoors on a sunny day-sunshine seems to increase the volatisation of the ingredients of the beer, but as I spend all day outside, it's good to relax indoors. I'll still record outdoor visits, if only to note beers taken.

[rpadam]

I'm probably out on a limb here, not self-identifying as a ticker, but of course it counts!

Do you have to have a drink in both the public bar and lounge to tick a twin-bar bar pub, or both upstairs and downstairs in a large 'spoons?

Of course not, so what's different about the beer garden?

Nothing really, so why not just review the garden and the beer, and make it clear that you didn't have the chance to peruse the interior...

PS - Apologies, but I've just had another candidate for a BABOTW from a tin and can't wait to get back out to a pub (garden) and a nice pint of fresh BBB!

[RealAleRobUK]

Having just had our first away day out of the Midlands for a long time (York in October 2020 our last venture) we were so happy to visit Reading yesterday, and enjoyed the gardens in Nags Head, Castle Tap and Allied Arms, and of course the 14 ales both cask and draft we found in them. We had 2 new pub ticks as had only been to the Nags Head before, and in my book they re 2 new pubs for us. I won't attempt to do reviews on here after reading some of the comments. My rules.

Gill

A review is always useful in my opinion Gill, don't let those who are stuck in their ways and make strange rules for themselves put you off! You never know when your comments may be useful to someone.

[gillhalfpint]

A review is always useful in my opinion Gill, don't let those who are stuck in their ways and make strange rules for themselves put you off! You never know when your comments may be useful to someone.

Feel a little wicked but after writing on the forum above, I have gone onto all the pubs we have been to since they reopened on 12.4.21 and written a review. Some hadn't had a visit for years, so it is a little bit to update this site showing pub is open for business.

Going out now to visit Glasshouse brewery garden.

Gill

[Pubsignman]

Had my first post-lockdown pub visit on Sunday at The Oxted Inn (JD Wetherspoon). Unfortunately, they only had Ruddles and Doom Bar on cask, so the whole experience was hardly a great reminder of what I've been missing. The Doom Bar was only £1.99 a pint though, so at least I wasn't stung by the inflated prices that have been mentioned on the 'How Much?' thread.

I managed to have a nose around inside the pub, so I'll leave a review.