Al10000, I suspect a few of these places will be certifiably locals only, shut at 9pm, and then become smoke-ins....
Al10000, I suspect a few of these places will be certifiably locals only, shut at 9pm, and then become smoke-ins....
Some very fair points there.Looking at the Micropub Association website their
RULE NUMBER 1..........NO LAGER *
does reminds me of a famous Monty Python sketch about life in Australia.
Too close an association with CAMRA hardliners may make a micropub feel exclusive when any decent pub should always feel inclusive ,especially to strangers who just pitch up.
For a micropub to be sustainable ,it may well need to cater well beyond friends and family of the entrepreneur who set it up,hence why I was extolling the virtues of The Treacle Tap,in Macc.
Hopefully as more of these micropubs get onto Pubsgalore and get reviewed,a better picture may emerge of which ones are worth a visit.I have a soft spot for this kind of new venture and hope as a group they dont fall into the traps you mention,Al.
* OK i was using a bit of license there
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"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
I'll be in Derby next month, so I'll see if I can get to the Little Chester Ale House.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Ne...ail/story.html
It should have opened last month according to this piece.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Had the opportunity to visit this one http://www.thebrewhousebolton.co.uk/ on Tuesday when I was in the area visiting a customer.
Nice comfortable place, although it may not qualify as a Brew Pub now that brewing has moved up the road to a larger micro set up (Dunscar Bridge Brewery) on a nearby business park. But the original copper is still visible behind glass from the main bar.
Beers were pleasant , but the ones on were all a bit samey being light and fruity, and could have done with something with a bit more body on a day when snow was laying all around..
Anyway, will post its inaugural review on PuG when I get a chance.
Work is the curse of the drinking Class - Oscar Wilde
Well i did my first micro pub today,the Doctors Orders in Nottingham.
No bar, no music,no tv,so not really my sort of place to have a drink in,there were five real ales on all from micro brewerys with another five waiting to come on,the beer i had was very nice, but the barman questioned me when i asked for a porter,probably because i did'nt fit in with his usuall crowd and did'nt look like a real ale drinker.
So to sum my micro pub experience,nice beer,no atmosphere,and i felt a bit out of place having a drink in this room.
I asked for a drink of Flipside Rusty Penny,i did'nt know this was a porter but i do like porters,stouts,milds just the same as my normal bitter.
I got the feeling he would'nt have asked any other customers who were in on my visit if they had asked for that beer that it was a porter.
I may be wrong and he could have been trying to be helpfull,but my gut feeling was that he would'nt have asked anybody else.