I keep telling you how micro pubs aren’t real pubs, then finding one I like. Here’s yet another winner.
No, I’d never heard of Charfield, either.
But not only does it have a micro pub, but the “African Conservation Experience” AND “Sofa Riot*“, On the same site. Russ should investigate.
Anyway, the Pear Tree confounds the micro purist with a pub sign.
It doesn’t look like a micro pub,
And the beer range scandalously includes a beer you’ve heard of.
It turns out the micro is half of an old pub that shut, maintaining the pub but ditching the restaurant. It felt very much the village boozer; irreverent, cheery, fun.
Beer from the barrel reduces that “long pull” taste; barrels in the chimney keep it cool.
The guvnor served my half of Great Western Maiden Voyage in a pint glass. It was the beer of the month so far (NBSS 4). “Don’t let him drink all our beer” shouted someone.
“Beer tastes better in a pint glass” said I. It really does.
“I know. That’s why I served it in one“.
Give this man the freedom of Charfield.
*A Bulgarian version of the group that disrupted the World Cup Final, I presume.
retiredmartin 
I hope you stole that book.
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https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-it-works-the-wife/jason-hazeley/joel-morris/9780718183547
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“Russ should investigate.”
Believe it or not that African thingy rings a bell. As for the Sofa Riot, not sure why they didn’t set up in, *cough*, Chesterfield. 🙂
“On the same site.”
That would explain why both of their websites are festooned with the word ‘bespoke’. 😉
“Bench seat with view out to encroaching pub tickers”
You sure that’s not a photo from the local train station?
“What sort of homebrew is Proper Job !”
Obviously not one you’d go for since he’s pouring a Maiden Voyage.
“CAMRA approved pub reading matter ?”
From the photo:
“She will try both, and return the one she likes less.”
I read that as “return the one who licks less.” 😉
““I know. That’s why I served it in one“.”
Truly a man of the blogger.
Cheers
“*A Bulgarian version of the group that disrupted the World Cup Final, I presume.”
(slow golf clap) 🙂
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There are some sensitive souls who read this blog Russ. Careful.
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It’s a good job I’m innocent as well as sensitive.
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Your misreading of the caption in the Ladybird book is peak Russ.
I liked my Sofa Riot line. Glad you did.
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“Your misreading of the caption in the Ladybird book is peak Russ.”
Phew!
When I got on just now I thought for a moment I’d be banned. 🙂
Cheers
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You think I’d be daft enough to ban you and have to pay for a proof reader ! ( 🙂)
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😂
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“scandalously includes a beer you’ve heard of” –Ha! I’m sure it was an oversight and they’ll correct it in the morning. 😉
Sounds like a nice place. Have you ever seen some other place like this before– a former pub reduced in size and turned into a micro?
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Not really. A few rural pubs, often run by octogenarian owners, have ditched the food operation and just run the place for locals, but they’d probably be horrified to be thought of as a micro ! In most cases a small rectangular closed shop is easier and cheaper to set up.
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Are you sure aren’t just the names of bands who have played at that location?
Of course that is OK in CAMRA terms. As long as it isn’t a man doing something ethically dubious it cannot be challenged in any way, shape or form.
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African Conservation Experience – a Sting/Paul Simon supergroup who headlined at Stroud Summer Fest in 1998.
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The name of Charfield will be familiar to railway enthusiasts as the scene of a notorious railway disaster in 1928. And no, I don’t remember reading about it at the time 😛
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Thanks for link. The most chilling part of that is that two childrens’ bodies were never identified.
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” A Bulgarian version of the group that disrupted the World Cup Final, I presume. ”
Take a bow,son.
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I deserve some sort of prize for that, I reckon.
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Brilliant! What a place and good to see a pub being revived for the better…half in a pint glass is the way forward I should try it 👍🍺
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In Cornwall my sister would go in craft beer bars like HAND and ask them politely to serve their expensive thirds in a pint glass. And they would.
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Your sister sounds like she would be great value to have a pint with… or a third!
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Yes, she is. But perhaps not six.
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That old West Country Breweries pub sign frame is evidence that “the micro is half of an old pub”,
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