Let the last two days be a lesson to bloggers in how to squeeze half a dozen posts out of one evening on the South Coast.
But for a lesson in proper pub writing, can I direct you to Lady Sinks The Booze. Read it twice. Amongst many great lines is this;
“There are good drinkers and bad drinkers in this Brave New World, the good will be feted with schooners and cheese pairings, whilst the bad will be battered with minimum pricing and the closure of more local pubs.”
Much of the beer writing Kirsty refers to in her piece despairs of the drinking that goes on in Wetherspoons, whose ale range is now seen as old hat, and the craft half-hearted.
I ended the night* at one of my favourite Spoons.
I’d always assumed the John Jaques was named after my favourite Strangler, so it was good to be corrected by the excellent historical detail I read while making my drinks choice.
Despite the lure of the nation’s favourites, I knew I wouldn’t have many chances to write “Prosecco in Portsmouth”, so I ordered a mini bottle.
Folks. this, and Carling, is what keeps the nation’s favourite pub chain going, not Alchemist collaboration or even bottles of Westmalle Tripel.
So I drank my £4.50 bottle of near undrinkable fizz on a high table watching West Indies v Sri Lanka, and hoped Mrs RM was proud.
“You’re supposed to drink it with food, idiot !” Do peanuts count ?
I could have had THREE pints of that Weltons, and used my Spoons vouchers up. Loser.
To make it worse, nearly everyone else was on the cask. And singing “Nellie the Elephant”
A Proper Pub for Pompey People.
Coming up next, a Wu Wu in Wokingham. Possibly.
*actually, I didn’t. There was this.
retiredmartin 
Difficult to sat if that’s a lot of beer or not, presumably the 2 GK beers and Doooooom Bar aren’t counted among those pints? It’s more than I’m going to drink on a night out, that’s for sure. Well, most nights.
I’m not sure how weird my drinking habits are, I’ll happily switch between a Spoons for a couple of reasonably priced pints and then head to a craft bar and buy something weird and occasionally wonderful. And then head to whatever takes my fancy,
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You sound quite normal. Which is disappointing for a reader of this blog.
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Appearances can be deceptive. But whose standards of normalcy? Just as long as I never get confused for a H*pst*r.
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Hopstar is a decent beer, with good turnover, possibly better than Hophead.
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I’d never be outed as a Hophead, far more of the stout persuasion.
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A funny post! Great shout on the fizz and why not??? I prefer Hugh but both are equally menacing on the No More Heroes album
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Prosecco at a high table! Were you also wearing a pashmina? 😉
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“Pashminas, Prosecco and Pompey” just too much to ask for, Mark !
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All you would have to do is eat some polenta to make it complete.
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I can save all this material for my trip to Perth…
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“at one of my favourite Spoons.”
What is it with the maps showings Spoons places with sleeping ‘inn’ icons rather than drinking ‘inn’ icons?
“I could have had THREE pints of that Weltons, and used my Spoons vouchers up. Loser.”
Yup. 🙂
“Quite a lot. Or is it ?”
Over 150 a day so I’d say so in my book.
“a Wu Wu in Wokingham. ”
If all you’re looking for is alliteration why didn’t you just stick with “A Pint in Portsmouth” instead of the Prosecco thingy? 🙂
Cheers
PS – “soit was good to be corrected”
I gather ‘soit’ is French for something? (since it relates to the John Jacques).
Oh and thanks for the link to LSTB; I’ll have to make a mental note to add her to my list.
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Pint in Portsmouth – ughhh
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150 pints a day over 3 or 4 guests is 35-50 pints of each, which is far more than your average village pub.
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They’re branches that also offer accommodation. It doesn’t mean drinkers consume too much John Smith’s and fall asleep in their seats.
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I’m just surprised that with your love of allieration in your headlines you didn’t manage to shoehorn in Play Up Pompey*
* For the older readers on here.
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Give me time, Prof. I did do Pompey Chimes last year…
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It’s 15 Firkins. Plus, they have their regular cask lines and lots of other beverages as well. I don’t think that’s bad.
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The question (explored on the Beer and Pubs Forum https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/beerandpubs/pints-per-week-t195.html )
was more about the quality of individual beers than overall viability. Those volumes should be enough to ensure a beer sells within 3 days, I guess.
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Assuming all Spoons guest beers are in firkins. Do we know that?
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Not seen it, can’t really get on with the Beer & Pubs Forum. Too clunky and whatever I do I can’t seem to be able to post to it. I end up having to press enter about 3 times before anything happens.
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We’ve blocked you #Crafties
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Well, t’other Mudgie manages it 😛
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Well, yes, I do manage the occasional post on there, often a few hours before my usual couple of mid-morning pints ! .
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Prosecco today
Dark fruit tomorrow.
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He did have a pint of Foster’s in the Rifle Drum in Northampton 😛
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It was rubbish.
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Just pretend it’s named after Jean Jacques Burnel. That’s what I do. I’ve seen The Stranglers many times. Most memorably in Helston after being Spingo’d.
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Oh grief !
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I think we did the full range of Spingo twice in one afternoon. Seemed like a good idea at the time!
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How could you not have a pint of Weltons Headless Horseman and tell us whether or not it was indeed flat ?
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What ?
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Headless = flat ?
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