A quick post from Sunny Cleethorpes, not that you’ll see it named on the screensave from Google Maps, which clearly believes Humberston is a city.
It really is sunny, though I’ll bet Skeggy is still bracing today.
Rather brighter than my trip a year ago, when I failed to tell you the town has a Taco Bell. Which is all you need to know.
Last time I peeped in Willy’s, the Beer Guide regular, saw a bar full of young people, no sign of the promised Bass, and gave it a miss.
But I’m determined to make sure the Wickingman list of Bass outlets doesn’t miss one, and I popped back today.
That’s the beer list. Clear enough, but again no sign on the bar.
3 interesting beers, at bargain prices, but where’s the Bass. In the cellar ? In a jug ? In a keg font. No.
It’s tucked out of sight, the pump pulled back.
“Any Bass” I squeaked.
“Yeah”
I’d have got a better response asking for the WiFi code.
I’d been looking forward to haddock, but I succumbed to the beef stew with chips and veg for £4.75.
It were really good, as northerners say.
The pub is light and airy, with a touch of the seafront cafe. It’s no Nottingham House.
The Bass was a bit end of the barrel, but still cool and tasty enough to contemplate a second (NBSS 3).
They didn’t sell any Bass while I was there, or any of the other ales. Lager rules at 20 degrees, as the Boomtown Rats might have said.
But for goodness sake stick the Bass on the front bar and give it a chance. Not everyone will be as persistent/obsessive as me to hunt down the amber nectar.
retiredmartin 
Three quid for a pint of Bass ?
It’s like stepping back into 1986.
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Your tenacity for searching out bass is remarkable 👍🍺🍺
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£3 for pint of Bass, scandalous! You can get two pints for that price at the Crown Tavern in Bristol. Mind you entering said establishment is like stepping back into 1976.
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It’s hotter than ’76 in Clee.
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You’ll be disappointed at the lack of pashminas in Cleethorpes then.
Or scarves as the locals call them.
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Now who’s obsessed ?
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They were obviously hiding the Bass so only the casknescenti get the chance to sup it. Why waste it on anybody else?
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I have a cousin who lives in Humberston, which is obviously the reason for its prominence 😉
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Wharever happened to, ‘when in Skeggy (insert any other town) always drink the Locale brew’?
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Think local, drink Bass.
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I am late to this Bass party as a quick rehydration after the tropical Youlgrave bowls match went on a bit. Willy’s is already in the list but you will be placed above the GBG in the Bass Directory entry. Good effort.
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Oh good. At least I can confirm it hasn’t been dropped, just hidden from view.
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“Twinned with Konigswinter”
I thought you were having me on; twinning a town on a glorious summer’s day with a town with ‘winter’ in it. 🙂
“Last time I peeped in Willy’s”
There’s a joke there somewhere but I’m reverting back to my middle name; decorum. 😉
“Lager rules at 20 degrees,”
Maybe the first one , to quench your thirst, but after that… pfft!
(besides, 20C is hardly a bloody heat wave) 🙂
“But for goodness sake stick the Bass on the front bar and give it a chance. ”
Nowt to add to that but… yep!
Cheers
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How many middle names do you have that aren’t Decorum, Russ ?
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“How many middle names do you have that aren’t Decorum, Russ ?”
As many as the years I’ve been married (usually all along the lines of ‘exasperating’ or the equivalent). 🙂
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I was hoping you’d give us your opinion on the Willy’s Original– and not just because of the opportunity for double entendres, I swear!
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No way I’d ever go for the home-brew ! From distant memory it was unexceptional (shock, horror).
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£2.48? Every penny counts in Cleethorpes.
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