While Mrs RM took photos in the loos in Archie’s I headed across the road to the GBG newbie, Bar 236. Named after the number of passes completed in the Prestatyn Town v Mold Welsh League game on 17/11/2009, it’s another in Prestatyn’s canon of café-bars modelled on Hollyoaks.
In the background you can see the rather more traditional Cross Foxes, traditional end point of the Offa’s Dyke footpath, which just shows you how CAMRA branches put beer quality before tradition in their GBG picks.
Because the ale here from Heavy Industry was really top-notch, cool and rich, an easy NBSS 4.
In fact this was the third (of 3) pubs in Prestatyn to get my highly coveted 3 ticks for beer quality, putting the town up their with Cambridge, Nuneaton and Stockport for beer quality. What can it all mean ?
But never mind that. And never mind the dozen TVs showing Athetico v Marseilles.
“Look at all that lycra !” said Mrs RM, probably pointing at the ceiling.
On one table a group of cycling ladies consuming more wine than Mrs RM had managed, at the bar two blokes modelling the latest kit, and (rather incongruously) an old chap at the bar with a handful of root vegetables.
You can guess which one of those three Mrs RM took a photo of.
Simon, you’re in for a treat.
retiredmartin 
“LYCRA ON OFFA’S DYKE”
I had something witty for the above but I’m going to shelve it for now. 🙂
“traditional end point of the Offa’s Dyke footpath”
Blimey. Didn’t realise that footpath is 177 miles long.
“an old chap at the bar with a handful of root vegetables.”
I take it his lycra wasn’t keeping his two veg in then. 😉
“Simon, you’re in for a treat.”
LOL
Cheers
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Why were you at the bar with vegetables?
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“my highly coveted 3 ticks for beer quality” –Coveted indeed. Just think of all the dejected publicans up and down the land, kicking themselves for having failed you. And make no mistake: There will be no second chance!
But Martin, when you take a photo with the package facing down, we can’t tell which brand of crisps it is. 😉
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This will shock you Mark, but they weren’t my crisps. Or beer. I guess I could have turned the crisps over but might have been a bit BRAPA-ish !
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Thought they were face-down in the absence of a sponsorship deal.
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;-)))
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You can imagine it now :-
“RetiredMartin in association with Piper’s crisps”.
I know that Boak & Bailey often make “disclosures” when they have been given a freebie.
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I would be happy to accept sponsorship from any pub snack manufacturer. I return I would promise to eat only their snacks, taking Pipers crisps into Corkers or Seabrooks pubs.
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So if a certain brewery sponsors you, will you be taking your own Bass to any pub that does not stock it ?
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I can see some logistical problems with that as I only drink draught beer !
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Prestatyn was very poor for pubs when me and the wife went there in 1985, we only found five pubs and not all were proper pubs.
The Railway Ind Coope
Cross Foxes Marstons
Royal Victoria Burtonwood
Pub on the Beach Free House
Grand Hotel Bass
Colwyn Bay was even worse, we found four pubs and when we asked a bloke if there were any pubs around he replied “ive been walking for miles trying to find a pub” so we gave him directions to the few pubs we had done.
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Pubs were probably illegal in Wales in 1985, hence the shortage.
Having said that, “I’ve been walking for miles trying to find a pub” sounds akin to the trials and tribulations of RM trying to find the latest hidden micropub.
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