I haven’t got a clue how beer is made (beyond the fish gut bit), but I know a well-kept pint when I taste one. And see one. So here’s some nice pictures of beer.
Normally over early May Bank Holiday I’d be bringing you a report from our local’s annual Beer Festival, the high point of Fenland village life. But there’s only so many Festival T-shirts and glasses you can collect, and anyway I’ve had Northampton and Northumberland on my To Do list.
But I’m always happy to big up the Sun, a “Proper Pub” only let down by its affiliation to the Harry Kane Team.
Last time here (March) it was snowing,
Last week in the heat we still camped in the Lounge waiting for our Chinese takeaway (Chung Hwa, the best), and rang the little bell that attracts the Landlady from the Public Bar.
The beer range seems to revolve around Wherry, an Adnams, and a couple of smaller breweries from near (Turpins of Cambridge) and far (Bradfield of posh Sheffield).
You know what I think about that Adnams glass. So the choice was easy. Mrs RM had hot nuts (£1) with her Bradfield. You can see them in the photo at the top.
As Mrs RM would say, a proper scummy head. She’s practically a beer sommelier. And a pint drinker.
Two great cool, rich, chewy pints (NBSS 4). The epitome of what CAMRA should be about. That and lacings like this;
retiredmartin 
Oh crikey. If I get served with a pint like that up here, I’d be having words. They look truly awful! 🙂
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The North/South divide there 🙂
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The pub is really a pretty pub. Is it ever in the GBG? Really looks like a nice place to sit and drink.
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It has been in and out over last decade. Competition for too few GBG places fierce in what we call Greater Waterbeach.
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And that pub is part of what makes it great.
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I’m hoping to stop for one at the Sun tomorrow if I can get back out of the traffic jam that is Reach Fair. Only a pedant would point out that Turpins Brewery is now based in Pampisford, a mere 8 miles from Greater Waterbeach.
Them Bradfield beers are good though; I even have a novelty beer mat I’ll take with me in case they still have one on…
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I did know that, honest, but this is a “safe place” for pedantry. Not like that Mumsnet. Type craft beer in there and see where you get to !
Nearly always get good Bradfield, particularly the Farers, but then South Yorks pubs that persist with cask generally know how to keep it.
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“I haven’t got a clue how beer is made” – did you learn nothing in Wolverhampton ?
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No. Except not to fall in the big round tin.
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Not having been on the same Sommeliers course as you, what is a chewy pint? One without a head on it?
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A pint that’s quite thick, like Plum Porter. Or a pint they dropped their I-Phone in.
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