May 2024. Sheffield.
This Monday lunchtime went; Pint, Pie, Peas, Painting, Pint, Pleasantly P****d. Which is my best rum of alliteration in a year. The painting came outside Kelham Island Museum, just behind the Fat Cat’s pie and peas.
Yes, a Bessemer engine makes a great still life study,
but I prefer pics of pubs like the Millowners Arms, the unofficial post-museum boozer for the industrial museum.
Not bad pricing for a museum pub…
Yet to grace the GBG, perhaps it never will as Don McClean once sang, but a fine example of Sheffield’s unsung pubs,
and a decent enough home for some local brewerania, a word I always spell wrong.
Vault City, Tiny Rebel and Magic Rock on keg, the usual Sheffield cask on the pumps (top).
“Which one goes fastest mate ?” I ask the cheery young barman.
Of course, a true CAMRA would say “I’m looking for something tart, with cherry notes. What do you recommend in thirds ?“.
“Moonshine” he points, without hesitation. I like a decisive pub man.
And he was right (a rich NBSS 3+), even though no-one else was drinking it. Or any cask, in fact. Coffee and water the order of the day for the folk outside, most of whom more interested in drawing that draught.
Having noted that cask is often served a couple of degrees too warm, this was a bit chilled.
The bubbles never lie.
But I’m being picky. This place should be a “Try Also” in the Guide. Whatever happened to “Try Also”s ?
retiredmartin 
They were far too useful. They had to go. :-))
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Who needs a try also when you’ve got Whatpub?
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But WhatPub is not exactly discriminating. “Try also” is a useful middle ground. Maybe it should be reintroduced under two headings “Up and coming” and “Old favourites”
I’d settle for a guide entitled “Classic Boozer”.
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You’ll need Life After Football for that.
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Speaking of football. My new glory hunter policy is going fabulously
¡CAMPEONES!
And the UCL semi final second leg was an exciting watch. I even found a group of Spaniards to watch it with over a pint of
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That offside call on the late Bayern equaliser was a disgrace. What’s the point of VAR (and I want VAR gone) if you blow up on a tight call ?
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Made me laugh (in the style of Nelson from The Simpsons).
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The north/south decide can be summed up in the Bessemer engine versus the beach hut water colour.
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Future editions of the Oxford English Dictionary will record May 17, 2024 as the first use of the term “Bessemer engine” to refer to the massive piece of equipment seen outside the Kelham Island museum, previously known as a Bessemer converter.
Not your fault, Dave, for trusting Martin implicitly. After all, why would you not?
Interestingly there is something called a Bessemer Conversion Engine https://www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/196-bessemer-conversion-engine but this is a completely different species of duck.
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It’s not converting much just sitting there now is it ?
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And here I thought this was fact checked site. Prior to pressing publish I mean.
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I used to rely on that Canadian to check facts, which are overrated anyway.
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Also, you can’t make much steel using a beach hut, or even a water colour painting of one.
Hence the north/south divide you refer to.
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The wonderful Vulcan is now a Cardiff museum pub not worth visiting according to that Discourse.
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I shall visit the “Vulcan” if I can make it down to Cardiff, it’s very good museum in its own right, but I can’t imagine the level of sanitisation compared to the original necessary in 2024. It was a great pub, a Welsh Hare & Hounds, though not necessarily the best Brains in town.
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It was a lovely pub sixteen years ago.
I think the Vulcan is one of Huddersfield’s best pubs.
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