Some of the most expensive and bizarrely-named “Guest Ales” encountered on our West Wales Wander came at the Royal Oak in Newport, (Pembrokeshire, as opposed to the estimated 33 other Newports).
A traditional local catering to the huge tourist trade that Wiki seems to think Newport gets, presumably pilgrims heading uphill to Pontfaen.
Goodness, there’s a lot to read before you get in, isn’t there.
It’s slightly disappointing the rare original blue BT Sport card is violently juxtaposed with the stone wall and Felinfoel mirror.
Our attention was also drawn to the “What’s On In Newport” sign tells us that Food Allergies & Intolerances are back, possibly an acoustic performance.
Excitement rose as we approached the bar.
No, not the Sooty charity box.
Joy of joys, two pumps turned round so Abbot or nothing. Duncan’s disappointment was palpable.
BRAPA only does pints to get his tick. Duncan normally has a half. I had a small sip and called it. NBSS 3.5. Could have told by sniffing it.
My first of far too many cokes was a disappointment.
Ah, the Teifi Sewin again, upgraded from Guest Ale to Special.
Duncan was very keen to establish whether the Sewin was related to our new friend by the pool table.
But apparently it’s Welsh for sea trout. We learnt so much on this trip.
retiredmartin 
I’m sure I’ve had those flavours of craft beer before.
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“SEWIN FOR PEACE IN NEWPORT (PEMBS)”
In the photo below it says both ‘battered’ and ‘grilled’. Do they interrogate their food prior to serving?
“came at the Royal Oak in Newport”
No comment on the map. It’s all Greek to me. 🙂
“Window completely obscured by signs”
I initially read the sign on the far right; ‘to eat in or take away’ as ‘to eat in our take away’, and thought that was a food snug or something.
“Ah, the Teifi Sewin again, upgraded from Guest Ale to Special.”
LOL. I was going to say something similar about the first photo (i.e. guest ale). 🙂
“We called him Simon”
He looks neither battered or grilled… or seifi.
“But apparently it’s Welsh for sea trout”
And yet if you put a hyphen between sea and trout in Google Translate it goes from sewin to brithyll.
Cheers
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The description on WhatPub appears to be a blurb provided by the pub itself, complete with misplaced apostrophe 🙄
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I’ve thought for quite a while that scant information for pubs in rural Wales is from a lack of active local members and for this pub we’re told “Last surveyed on 21/11/2014”.
Maybe “the pub itself” told the local branch that it was deserving of a place in the guide !
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Or they got a couple of regulars to join CAMRA and give their beer a high score.
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Fair enough. We need more members to join to subsidise the loss making beer festivals that kill pubs.
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And pay for the specially trained chefs to cook the lesbian broccoli at GBBF.
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And it clearly is 😉
There does seem to be a high proportion of pubs round here in the Guide.
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Why put just one word in a sentence in a different tongue?
If you go to Brussels, you don’t see a French one written, with the odd “zeeforel” tossed in, do you?
How very odd.
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Nothing wrong with that at all. Cultural appropriation at its finest.
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Because in Wales, very few people speak the language fluently but most people know a few words, such as “sewin”.
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“just one word in a sentence in a different tongue”
It all started with brothers Aldo and Frank Berni who had the idea of pubs selling food more expensive than a cheese and onion sandwich.
So in 1956 they came up with prawn cocktail as starter, steak and chips as main course and black forest cake as desert.
But, no, that’s not quite exotic enough so substitute “gateaux” ( even if there’s only one of them ) for “cake” and we’ll make a fortune they rightly thought and the rest is history.
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Never knew that about Berni. Is it in the Boak & Bailey book?
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I don’t know.
I’ve not got any Boak and Bailey books – only Frank Baillie’s 1973 The Beer Drinkers Companion. .
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They have done a blogpost about it.
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Wasn’t the Walsall Gateau the scene of an appalling atrocity in WWII?
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Not many people know that Black Country Ales BFG is named after exactly that atrocity.
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Never mind Berni, Schnorbitz was the brains of the outfit.
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Newport looks great 👍 whatpub is a terrific resource to be fair to CAMRA
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