While in Overton I skimmed through the local CAMRA magazines looking for pubs offering that crucial 10p members discount that determines all my pub visits.
Staring at me from the cover was this;
Yes, a pub I hadn’t been in yet was their Pub of the Year. A potential pre-emptive tick and a chance for bragging right when meeting two other GBG ticking weirdos aficionados the next day.
As you’ll know by now, if a pub meets 3 conditions it’s bound to get in the next Guide;
a) A micro pub
b) Won a branch award, even if it’s only “Best Pub Cat”
c) Gives CAMRA discount excellent customer service
Anyway, the Little Bare* was a rather wonderful 20 minute stroll along the prom to a smart little suburb, Morecambe’s Lark Lane if you will.
Not sure why I bother taking photos of micro/craft/brewery bars really; you can guess what they look like.
I had a great time here, even without Mrs RM. It’s a beer bar rather than a micro, close to the Harrogate Little Ale House in style. Everyone was chatty, some folk had come from Berlin now the Euro is worth more than a quid, and frankly the beer was sensational. They even had some breweries like Siren and Blackjack you’ll have heard of.
Not too many on, not too daft a choice, maximising quality. The Time Lapse was an NBSS 4 and the Hub Cap finished me off but I can’t score it as CAMRA hate craft or summat (not Lunesdale, I notice).
Noticing me decant the keg half into my pint glass, the Guvnor agreed that beer tastes best in a pint glass. That’s why the Bare has just won Lancashire Pub of the Year, clearly.
Three rooms, all spacious enough to escape from people like me, with a family atmosphere rare for micros.
Anyway, I apologise to the Little Bare if I was a bit loud; I’m not used to being let out unattended in strange places.
*Typo for Russ here
retiredmartin 
“Note sand bucket. Purpose unknown” – the most basic unisex micropub toilet yet ?
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You’re on fire today, Paul.
Perhaps that’s what the bucket’s for.
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“Our Manx ferry was the budget option”
Shades of Monty Python!
“Note sand bucket. Purpose unknown”
Pfft. It’s a fire bucket. It says so right on the side. It’s for folks who step outside for a fag who’ve forgotten their lighter or matches. 😉
“The Time Lapse was an NBSS 4”
Heh. I was looking at that in the photo thinking “that would do me”. 🙂
“Craft”
I can see why you say the Hub Cap finished you off. We can see your face in both the mirror and the keg pump thingy. 🙂
Cheers
*Typo for Russ here
Pfft. The typo was in the photo of their CAMRA magazine. And besides; with you typing ‘Little Bare’, but the photo showing ‘Little Bear’, I just thought your mind was still on that vision with the invisible pants from the previous post. (LOL)
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Went to the Little Bare last year. Don’t remember too much about it other than it was bigger than it originally looked and was quite pleasant. (This was before my new found appreciation of real ale!)
One gripe about this post, though – selfies are for youngsters and the feeble-minded; promise me that this was just an aberration! (Mind you a double selfie is quite rare!)
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That’s not me, that’s an impersonator !
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A handwritten Somerset farmhouse cider pump clip would probably have attracted my attention.
Although 6% ABV does suggest it’s not the truly awful stuff I really like.
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Handwritten Somerset cider clips give a totally different impression to handwritten clips saying “Dooooom bar”,don’t they ?
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My youngest is working a gap year behind a hotel bar in the West Country and Doom Bar Dave is an institution.
He arrives at his usual bar stool just before noon and leaves shortly before 10pm having consumed,on average,18-20 pints which are all recorded on a loyalty card.
He does this each and every day and has been doing it for years.
Dave is polite and an absolute gent and old slightly overweight.
Amazing capacity.
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Grief, even with a loyalty card that’s £50 a night !
I guess Dave alone consumes more DoomBar than half the UK’s homebrew purveyors put together.
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Dave’s a Brummie and made his money,a lot of it, in garages before retiring.It’s his intention,as he reminds me every time I see him,to piss it all away and not leave anything to his kids who he reckons are ungrateful little so and so’s.
He’s a delightful fellow and holds his drink well.
I often have a chat with him when I’m over to see the nipper and to take in a visit to this marvellous place.
Probably my favourite pub in England and not a single beer sold.
http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g190802-d2203974-Reviews-Ye_Olde_Cider_Bar-Newton_Abbot_Devon_England.html
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