No, not me. Are you daft ?
Some of these posts are taking longer to write than I spent drinking in them now, though you may be interested to know the Brown Bear effort was knocked out in (literally) ten minutes in the McDonalds at East Markham on the A1. And it showed.
I’m not sure the Robin Hood, a steep climb up from the Christmas Steps into student and hospital land, deserves much more than ten minutes, but it was BRAPA heaven.
Sir Quinno, a man who knows Bristol and Proper Pubs, is clearly reflecting the gentrification of local pubs in this comment;
Just like Brighton, the Victorian shells remain but inside it’s often open-plan middle-class grazing. Plus quizzes.
A tight modern beer range still had more pumps than customers, but I’m not criticising anywhere that puts Moor on the bar, even a thin pub with some questionable seating choices.
Though labelling your beer list “Quench” is a bit of a giveaway.
The modern pub is obviously competing with the independent coffee shop* as a free office for the gig worker. Not even a pint on the “desk“.
The Moor was cool and fruity if not sparkling, but a solid NBSS 3. Quite why it has to be served in a Purity glass remains a mystery.
Not wishing to take up a huge table all by myself, I took the high table, the perfect place at which to noisily eat a plate of excellent Bahn Mi and fries in full view of the couple on date night. The ’70s soul couldn’t drown out their cheery chat.
Large Sauvignon Blanc and a Mango beer for £10.35. Charge it to Project Calypso.
When the first thing you hear is “I’m from Bradford” your ears prick up, don’t they?
“How do you know what beer to go for ?”
“I just liked the funny name” Craft beer explained in six words.
He had electrical problems, she was a banker from Basingstoke, as the Smiths song goes. “She’s out of his league” thought BRAPA, by proxy, but he may have been wrong.
Pubs fuss about quizzes, and food trucks, and open-mic nights, when all they need to do is let you eavesdrop on young love to draw you to the pub.
As I left she was womansplaining a Bloody Mary, which probably means something very different in Bradford.
*Independent coffee shop = anagram of lukewarm coffee provider
retiredmartin 
A “tight modern beer range” but at least Bristol hasn’t heard of tight sparklers to thrash the life out of any pint, or hadn’t last time I was there.
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I like to think that your definition of “Date Night” would be that you’ve splurged out on a box of dates. Or persuaded Mrs. RM to do so.
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I assumed Martin had found this ;
https://vinepair.com/articles/can-make-beer-dates/
( Actually a box of dates was the very first thing I ever bought. 2/- from Follows greengrocers on Wolverhampton Road nearly sixty years ago )
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Did you use them to male beer?
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Sexist.
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What’s wrong with being sexy?
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Or even make beer
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Date Night is 2 pints of Punk in a grotty Spoons. This was our Silver Wedding Anniversary in a Letchworth JDW;
https://retiredmartin.com/2017/06/27/trouble-at-tspoons/
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Oooh, big spender. I’d have thought for that you’d have gone all out and found a Sam’s attempt at a gastro-pub.
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That would have involved a trip to Peterborough. Be reasonable.
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Moor and Tiny Rebel – can you get a more craft range on cask?
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Not until Cloudwater and Brew Dog return to cask, no.
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Siren Craft Brew may have something to say about that.
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Trust the southerner !
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Well if “craft” translates as non-conformist, then Sam Smith’s and Donnington as guests would surely be Uber Craft?
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Bang-on point about conformity, Scott. What does indeed happen, when the two-a-penny, self-proclaimed “rebels” outnumber the derided “establishment”?
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Do you remember when Kernel were the next must-have. Hardly ever see them now, as beardies move on to Lost & Grounded or whatever.
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They sell out to InBev for squillions
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Oh, I thought that you might have been going to claim that they say “We won. You lost. Get over it”, Scott.
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Isn’t “We won. You lost. Get over it” the same as selling to InBev for squillions?
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In its way, yes it is, I’d say.
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You get your Moor beer in a Purity glass because in this country many operators see branded glasses as a free, no cost to them, glass and nothing else.
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I used to have a Dutch local which had rotating taps of Belgian beer, each keg of which came with a set of the appropriate glassware. Their upstairs glass storeroom was bigger than the bar area.
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Scott,
So the glasses take so long to look after that they’ve no time for the beer and that’s why it’s keg ?
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The Belgians are fastidious about matching beer with the correct branded glassware.
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If you’re paying €5 for a beer it needs suitable glassware. A Bass glass is fine for Rochefort 10.
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I’ve never been concerned with matching beer with the correct branded glassware.
If I need to look at my glass to remember which beer I’ve bought then I’m sure I will have forgotten again by the time I’m on the way to the next pub.
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…and ticker culture means that British pubs tend not to get the same beer in again, which means it’s not really worth getting specific glasses in.
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They get them because they’re freebies
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There’s not enough margin in the sale of the odd £60 cask to make it worth a brewery’s while to hand out freebies, you only tend to get the freebies with the purchase of a meaningful amount of beer. Ticker culture means that pubs tend not to buy that much beer from a single brewery unless you’ve got a tied line etc, hence no freebie glasses.
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Whats written on the glass doesn’t change the beer, good or bad.
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No, but the quality, shape and size of the glass does. Beer always tastes better in a pint glass, Citra.
Read the definitive empirical evidence;
https://retiredmartin.com/2015/10/14/beer-better-in-pint-glass-scientific-proof/
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Its a bit like, “don’t drink with your eyes”.
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Correct. And when CAMRA members did that at the Great British Beer Festival, they gave honours to Greene King IPA and Doom Bar. It’s only when they let dogma and politics blind them that members now declare those beers “dishwater”.
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“Not even a pint on the “desk“.”
That does look like an empty tulip style beer glass just behind the laptop.
“Charge it to Project Calypso.”
Hard to do when you keep forgetting to ask for a receipt. 🙂
“As I left she was womansplaining a Bloody Mary, which probably means something very different in Bradford.”
Even I wouldn’t try to perform a double-entendre on that!
Cheers
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Good eyesight, Russ.
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“He had electrical problems, she was a banker from Basingstoke, as the Smiths song goes.”
–Ha! I can practically hear Morrissey crooning it, and Johnny Marr’s jangly guitar making it sound a bit more meaningful than it actually is. 😉
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I thought you’d name the song, Mark. It was Ask. ;-o
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Martin, you need to think more carefully about your post titles, comment notifications for this one are turning up in my spam folder! Or does this say more about me?
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If I changed the title to “fig”, would it help ?
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