Still no actual Beer Guide, but I’m starting to get the hang of the GBG app, and can at least work out the pubs I have to do. Far too many. Some people would start with the hardest one, but that’s on Shetland, just the 30 hours away. 30 minutes away is more sensible. A… Continue reading GBG19 – FAWNING OVER FORNHAM
Month: September 2018
A BEER GUIDE HUNT IN MILTON KEYNES
GBG launch day; no hard copy of the Beer Guide yet, but I raided the piggy bank (it’s actually that hedgehog Matt splatted at EOTR) for the £4.99 App version. A bit proud of myself for managing to do that. It was either download the app (as the kidz say) or spent another day mooching… Continue reading A BEER GUIDE HUNT IN MILTON KEYNES
GEMMA WAS WRONG
It was a long, drab walk out from Peterborough Station to Werrington and (oddly) a long walk back, so I merited a second beer. BRAPA had been here a week ago, so I consulted our Pub oracle for advice; I decided to give it a go. Excitingly, the Cock wasn’t shown as open on… Continue reading GEMMA WAS WRONG
FROTHBLOWERS
Apart from the fourteen days spent waiting for Mrs RM to give birth to our son James in 1999 (NHS waiting lists), I reckon the last two weeks waiting for the new Beer Guide has been the worst fortnight of my life*. I’m reduced to scrabbling around for certain pre-emptives, like the Frothblowers in… Continue reading FROTHBLOWERS
MOTHS
Quinno and I pressed on through the mean streets of Bethnal Green, stopping only to admire Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium. I doubt that Pub Curmudgeon will be relocating from Stockport to Bethnal Green, but E2 has more cat cafes than micro pubs. In fact, it has more Cereal Cafes than micros. #Depraved. Not a great… Continue reading MOTHS
A BRICK LANE BIMBLE
Young Pauline has just reminded me of the great street art around the City of London, so here’s some highlights of our epic (i.e. we got lost) walk from the Dispensary to the King’s Arms, where Sir Quinno was reunited with Sir Doris*. Sadly I can’t identify the giant sculpture blocking your view of… Continue reading A BRICK LANE BIMBLE
LONDON CASK QUALITY – NEW FACTS EMERGE
Three days back from Dorset, three days of mild cold turning into raging man flu. My planned day in London exploring new Beer Guide pubs already scuppered by you-know-what, I gave up on meeting Stafford Paul and Reading Quinno as well as a Prolapse gig in Hackney. But Quinno, a caring soul, reminded me I… Continue reading LONDON CASK QUALITY – NEW FACTS EMERGE
CALL OFF THE BREW DOGS
A shameless current affairs reference as I can’t think of an MK pun. I could have lumped this next place on the end of my first post from The Keynes (as they call it in Wolverton), but I got distracted by Cook’s finale at the Oval. What a man. BrewDog deserve their own post. … Continue reading CALL OFF THE BREW DOGS
NEW MOOS FROM MILTON KEYNES
Three offensive items in the photo above. Can you name them ? (not Beer Moos). Yes, a (voluntary) trip to Milton Keynes, tantalisingly close to Leighton Buzzard, which I really ought to add to Pub Curmudgeon’s shortlist of best pubbing town. I’ve been relatively kind to MK over the years (see here) , despite… Continue reading NEW MOOS FROM MILTON KEYNES
A CITRA BEFORE THE KEBAB
No, not the famous pub blogger, the beer. My beer of choice while I waited for the return of the Waterbeach Kebab van after his long Summer holiday, the big news in our village this last week. Large chicken kebab, £6, loads of salad. Matt eats the chicken. I never tire of bringing you NBSS… Continue reading A CITRA BEFORE THE KEBAB
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