Having started writing-up Sheffield yesterday, I may as well finish it before it becomes a distant memory (by Friday). A Tuesday afternoon in Sheffield’s Valley of Beer with Roger Protz, BRAPA and Beer Leeds, followed by a Dad/Son curry near the Uni. And a £30 IBIS room near the Arena. What’s not to like… Continue reading FAT CAT, COOL FOR CATS ?
Month: December 2017
TOP 100 PUBS – RUTLAND ARMS, SHEFFIELD
I take a short break from “Midsomer Murders* land” to give you an instant review of the last pub I went in. Possibly the last pub I’ll ever go to if I have the Little Earth Project 10.5% Stock Ale again. This was the Rutland Arms, the last pub of an afternoon with the legends… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – RUTLAND ARMS, SHEFFIELD
WHO ARE YOU, CHIPPING NORTON ?
The blog titles don’t get any better from now till Christmas, when I should receive some new ones from Santa. On to the Crown & Cushion, a rare old-fashioned small hotel bar in the Guide, in the resolutely old-fashioned Chipping Norton, which I often write as Chipping Sodbury to annoy them both. An easy Chipping… Continue reading WHO ARE YOU, CHIPPING NORTON ?
WHAT HAVE YOU DUN TEWS ME ?
The annual trip west of the M40 into Cherwell, the unexceptional but cosy area between Banbury and Oxford. An area lacking tourist clout but full of posh villages like Duns Tew, making a first appearance in the Guide since the Iron Age. There’s been some good pubs round here over the years; the Crown… Continue reading WHAT HAVE YOU DUN TEWS ME ?
A BIT OF A BLUR (JUST GIVE ME COFFEE & TV)
Even a Blur style robot for this one, a final post from the great city of Nottingham. OK, I may be getting my Blur mixed up with the miserablists from Oxford now. Being unable to locate the Olde Trip, we popped in to the Crafty Crow, a personal favourite, on the way to catch… Continue reading A BIT OF A BLUR (JUST GIVE ME COFFEE & TV)
CAVE LIFE
There you go, a Blur* reference. No idea why, I think I’m bored of all the Gallagher hype at the moment. So much thought goes into these post titles, particularly a post spurred by England’s dramatic “dead cat bounce” in the Ashes. More Nottingham pubs, I’m afraid. We really should have stopped at the… Continue reading CAVE LIFE
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Don’t worry, I’m thinking of the Bee Gees classic* rather than the Metallica cover version. Our American readers will no doubt have been wondering when I’d make my first reference to the Royal Wedding with which our Great Nation will soon be blessed. Harry and Meghan were in Nottingham this week, drawn no doubt… Continue reading FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
THE BIG SUNDAY BEER SELL-OFF
Not exactly a shock that the other Nottingham Guide newbie was another micro; the only surprise there’s not dozens of them in the suburbs yet. A Room with a Brew is relatively central, 5 minutes walk up Derby Street from the staggeringly expensive “4500 miles from Delhi” curry house and the grotesque (not the same… Continue reading THE BIG SUNDAY BEER SELL-OFF
INTO THE MEADOWS
A few posts for Alan Winfield. Another Sunday night in Newark, and an Off-Peak train to That Nottingham to tick the final two new GBG entries in that fair city. No problems finding quality cask here, though on my last visit I did note that a burger bar was the only Guide entry in… Continue reading INTO THE MEADOWS
BRING ON THE PART-TIME PUBBERS !
November is the cruellest month for pub tickers. Only 30 days to visit pubs, dark by 4, discovering one in four Guide entries unexpectedly shut, and then on Saturday lunchtimes they’re often eerily quiet. But “Rejoice ! Rejoice !”, December brings with it hordes of once-a-year pubgoers, all queueing at the bar when only one… Continue reading BRING ON THE PART-TIME PUBBERS !
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