One left in Totnes, and at last a pub I’d feel comfortable taking Stafford Paul in.
Despite the hanging baskets.
There must be some normal people in Totnes, I thought.
Sadly, they were all in the Seven Stars paying £4.35 a pint, and missing out on the traditional values of the Albert, whose custom comprised an Old Boy and me.
And a sleeping dog.
I’ll say trad. Mrs RM will say “old mans pub”. We’re both right.
For the second time in 20 minutes, I fell off my chair when asked for the price of a pint.
No, not quite that cheap, but the pub’s homebrew was more than a quid cheaper than in the Seven Stars, and perfectly quaffable.
Not the only pub named “Albert”, of course, but possibly the only one to celebrate the man who wrote this classic 1981 hit that Mark Crilley may remember.
And if nice people (in Totnes), cheap beer and floral views aren’t enough, this is your last chance to pick up a copy of the Spring Ullage.
retiredmartin 
So they used to have a draught product simply called “Beer”? Takes back-to-basics to a new level.
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Yes, but was the Superkeg Bitter and Superkeg Mild their own or from Ind Coope ?
That price list is dated December 1970 which is the month Plymouth Breweries was acquired by Courage.
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I do like the bas relief of Paul Whitehouse.
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Actually they had most of the options then that we have today…apart from tangerine infused saison IPA of course
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That was sold under the counter.
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Ha 😀 love it
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Just in case you weren’t aware craft beer is now racist.
Apparently.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/craft-beer%E2%80%99s-diversity-problem-too-many-white-male-hipsters/ar-AAEU0lL
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Yeah, but generalised healthcare is apparently “communist” in the US, so, ya know?
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P P-T,
“Craft beer’s diversity problem: Too many white male hipsters”.
I’m two-thirds of a white male hipster so if I shun “craft beer” that should help towards solving the problem.
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IPA is the new MAGA.
Apparently.
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Yes, that looks like a Proper Pub and so Totnes goes on my long list of places to visit.
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Keep it firmly on the long list, Paul 😉
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Yes, I will.
And your recent reports remind me that I’ve spent all too little time in Devon, home of the Mudgies – just two hours in Plymouth last year but then I was on my way to the Bass in the Seven Stars at Falmouth.
Maybe t’other Mudgie can let us know how distantly related he is to Mabel Mudge of the Drewe Arms and how long ago the cats, and Old Tom in particular, caused his branch of the family to move up to Cheshire.
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I feel like I’m letting you down, Martin, but this is the first I’ve heard of that song (and quite possibly will be the last!). The guys in the video certainly looked like the sort of folks I used to listen to though.
Does Mrs RM tend to prefer a different sort of pub interior rather than the ‘old man’s pub’ sort?
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Landscape were rubbish, Mark. That single and a follow up called Norman Bates are never played here.
SingerRichard Burgess produced the first Spandau Ballet single.
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Mrs RM will go in any pub, yo be fair, and as a teenager in Kent would have gone in many trad pubs.
She likes the quirky pubs with modern beer.
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I think I could name a few pubs Mrs TSM wouldn’t go in.
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