Greetings from the luxury of my suite at the Days Inn, Michaelwood Services. Us pub tickers know how to live.
Rubbish WiFi, the biggest issue of the age, but I did get this;
BRAPA stays in Premier Inns, being flush, and I think Duncan sleeps in his car so he can afford the £16.70 half pints he raves about in his latest report (which I’m ripping off here). That’s almost as much as I was paying in Norrebro the other year.
I was determined to beat that cheapo effort, so headed to Mikkeller’s new bar in what I believe is called Hoxton, though my geography gets awfully wobbly here.
All I know is that if I get too close to the Crown & Shuttle I come over all peculiar, but not in a Theakston way.
You could walk past the George & Dragon and not realise it’s a Mikkeller, but the tables set up for moneylenders financing the shots of Danish wild ale at £6 a pop.
It’s not Bass, but it’s wonderful stuff, particularly that Number 14.
I even got a table by the window, and enjoyed a seriously good sound system pumping out cutting-edge house music. Well, actually, it was Talk Talk’s “It’s My Life” and the remix of “Boys Don’t Cry“.
Only one person here was even born back in 1986, you know.
retiredmartin 
£18.70? Hipster bargain. If you can afford it I think it’s best to view drinking beers like that as the equivalent of a glass of fine wine, even in the how you drink it. Think you went in at a better time of day than me but enjoyed it nonetheless.
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Yes of course, it’s like a fine wine. Still best to order 3 different thirds and decant them into a Bass pint glass though.
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Absurd. Even in the country I’m from, prices like that would make people laugh.
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You just don’t understand craft ! As Duncan just said, it’s not really beer drinking.
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When I were a lad beer drinking was just part of everyday life not some special occasion.
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And it still feels a part of everyday life on our Proper Days Out, rather than something saved for the weekend like a Chinese takeaway.
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Let’s save up so that we can enjoy a pint between us.
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Do you ever feel ,in a hipster pub ” I don’t belong here ” We do frequently but I don’t give a monkeys & our lad seems happy to accompany us although perhaps this is because we are largely funding the visit !
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Same as you, Pauline.
I get more nervy in a pub full of folk in their 30s and 40s.
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You can’t beat a bit of the Cure….
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