A pub is for life not just for Christmas
The Gladstone Arms
A proper boozer doing something different.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Tamworth Tap
CAMRA Pub of the Year,and not ruined by the award but certainly popular,the ale range on a recent visit was first class across a variety of styles & strengths and perfectly conditioned.A very worthy winner and a must visit when in Tamworth IMHO.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Two weeks in Borth/Aberystwyth provides a few contenders.
The Glengower, White Horse in Aber were two favourites much changed from my uni days - but really enjoyed the trip to the pub at the top of Constitution Hill. No cask but the Brains keg Barry Island IPA was spot on overlooking the Cardigan Bay.
Y Consti
A tour of west London resulted in 32 new pub visits this month, with nine scoring above average:
The Bell & Crown
The Bulls Head
The Castle Inn
George IV
The Grange
The Haven Arms
The Rose & Crown
The Wheatsheaf
By a whisker, POTM goes to The Red Lion.
Best revisit goes to The Express Tavern.
May be a tourist haunt, but enjoyable for a town pub:The Grapes
"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.
Tamworth Tap
Another vote for this one. As good as, if not better than, before the CAMRA POTY award.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
The Real Ale Classroom in Lutterworth.
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"