A pub is for life not just for Christmas
The Woodlands in Silverdale. Not often I find a pub I consider completely unique but this was one.
Two disappointing mini-crawls of Bethnal Green and then Oxford over the long weekend. All new pubs to me and most for the last time too. Nothing great, but a couple were enjoyable and a couple will appeal to the craft keg brigade:
Bethnal Green Tavern
The Kings Arms
Marquis of Cornwallis
The Old George - Pub of the Month.
The Salmon & Ball
The Shakespeare
The Star of Bethnal Green
The Sun Tavern
Well & Bucket
Big Society
BrewDog Oxford
City Arms
The Cowley Retreat
Dew Drop Inn
The Library
The Magdalen Arms
The Plough at 38
Several to choose from on my successful trip to watch Salford in Hull. The city has improved massively in the twenty or so years I've been visiting. Hop and Vine is narrowly beaten by Furley and Co which had ale and craft aplenty, alongside good music and upbeat staff. A nice area of seating between a pedestrian area and the rejuvenated quays.
The superb Hand & Heart in Peterborough.
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
The Cornubia, One of a number of great pubs in Bristol enjoyed over the last couple of days.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Surrey Oaks An old favourite, but worth recognising as one of the few proper pubs in Surrey,with an eclectic beer range,including that new fangled keg...
"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.
The Old Harkers Arms
Over the years this converted canalside wharehouse has delivered some of the best pints I have every sampled,the latest offering of Whim Flower Power was no exception.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Since I can't yet do something from Jersey, I'll go for The Blue Boar Inn at Mancetter (Atherstone) which I have wanted to visit ever since I first saw a picture of this unusual-looking pub.