Good grief Moby ,I can feel your pain.I had that pub on my "to do" list having missed out on it during london calling's crawl around the area.Might well have to reconsider.Thanks for the heads up.
Good grief Moby ,I can feel your pain.I had that pub on my "to do" list having missed out on it during london calling's crawl around the area.Might well have to reconsider.Thanks for the heads up.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
My disappointment was the Sussex in Twickenham, not because there was anything wrong with the pub but my first pint was hazy and the second cloudy. I drank them as they tasted OK but a GBG listed pub should be better than this as it was in the other two listed pubs visited.
I was in there a week last Friday and had a pint of Hopcraft -reign of terriore and it was spot on.Luck of the draw maybe.You should have tried the self service bottle beer machine that they have installed.The first in the county apparently and could not be any worse than that barman.
Last time I was in the Sussex Arms, I thought the beer quality was excellent. Admittedly, that was a while ago. From what I can recall there was a much publicised change of management in the summer of 2013, with reviews being rather mixed ever since.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I hope your right about the luck of the draw as I really liked this pub first time round, but given the turn of events that day, you really couldn't make it up. I will try again as it was excellent in Feb. Didn't even notice the bottle machine, to many distractions at the bar.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Since it opened too many beers not enough customers although it gets busy.They use the scattergun approach to picking beers .They want new beers from new brewers but if a beer is in good condition but its a minger they still have to sell 70 pints of it. There was recent critisim of on here of a micro pub .Was it Just Beer who use the same approach and as a ticker I know this way of selecting your beer will get you more duds than good ones.
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My disappointment was visiting the George and Dragon Acton home to the new Dragonfly brewery.They have ruined a really good pub and the beers as I suspected (knowing the brewer) were rubbish.
My disappointment of the week is Brakspear beers.
Back in the 70s Brakspear were a revered brewer along with Young's. Today I bumped into Brakspear bitter at the Station House in Chingford and although well kept it was pathetic. I just felt lucky that it was only £1.99 a pint but the Banks's Mild which I tried before and was only £1.70 was as good a pint of it as I can remember drinking.
Shortly afterwards I came across Oxford Gold in the King's Ford Spoons and again it was completely bland, maybe there should be a thread for boring pale beers. I was even more annoyed to later find that the Oxford Gold was an "uninvited guest". The GBG description of these two bears no resemblance to what I drank today.
Of course, Brakspear is really Wychwood now and I can't think of a single beer worth drinking from that brewery. Their Status Quo branded Piledriver was as boring as having to listen to a Quo record.