I just thought it had all the elements,
Didn't used to be a pub,conversion from a shop (bookshop ?)
Small interior and serving bar.
Focus on real ale
Sign saying "No crap on keg"
Most punters drinking either cask ,keg or bottled beers (including the many women customers)
No flatscreens or gaming machines
However I take your point that the owners may not feel the term micro pub sits well with their vision of what they are offering,there were a lot more young men with beards than older CAMRA types with beards on my visit yesterday.
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 22-03-2015 at 17:52.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Looked In there tonight but didn't need any of the 3 cask beers but they have about 8 keg beers so they fall at the first hurdle for micro pubs.Evil keg?Also they are open all hours which is not the micro pub concept.
Yes,it's "micro", but I think it is part of a larger business:beer wholesaling and the Tap East bar and microbrewery at Stratford,so not exactly a one man band.
"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.
Used to visit the Microbar around Lavender hill way but again would not make the list.Had some great beers in it though.
I'm sure that I'd heard that Banbury had a micro pub opening but having trawled the interweb, this thread, the micropub association list and PuG list I can't find any reference to one in Banbury.
Perhaps I'm going sealion but has anyone else heard of a micro pub in Banbury?
and another proposed, Newcastle upon Tyne this time,
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/...ro-pub-8905128
Only an idiot journalist from the frozen North could come up with this ridiculous statement about a micropub :-
He can't even write proper as it should be AN application.A application has been submitted to Newcastle City Council for a new boozer that looks to ape some of London’s trendiest breweries and bars.