Regular readers will know that this blog appears to pick mercilessly on 4 things.
- Simon
- Mrs RM
- Maidenhead
- People who ask for tasters
- Stafford Paul
You’ll know we only pick on the things we love (is that true? ).
And I know how much you love my attempts to get Paul to drink keg (see: Bath, Leeds, Manchester etc). Easier getting an AFC Wimbledon fan to shop at Milton Keynes IKEA.
So polite is Paul, he’ll come in a craft bar and quietly sit while we drink the evil keg.
Well, on the way to the Star & Garter we noticed this.
Craft coffee. Yum. Why had Paul kept this one quiet.
Half an hour later, after 4/6 pints, our resistance crumbled.
Candid is clearly an anagram of “did can”, the new craft drinking craze in the North Midlands.
If Paul was unhappy we weren’t drinking £2 a pint 6X in the Craft Union, he hid it well.
Quosh and I were like six year old in a sweet shop,
though I confess I was as in awe of the coffee line up as the keg pours.
Paul succumbed to the Cloudwater coffee, we joined the communal table, and chatted to a Landlord (?) I can only describe as a gem.
No cask, as you’ll have guessed by now, so no preemptive, but an essential stop in any Stafford crawl.
Even if it is only for a long black.
retiredmartin 
So once Mrs. RM retires, you’ll be opening a craft beer bar in Maidenhead with Simon as your potboy? (discounts to non-Camra members only).
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“pot boy”?
As in chamber pot?
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Makes a change from jam jars.
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Taking the rise unmercifully is essential in blogging to fill those awkward gaps where nothing really happens….I have to say Russ, you and Duncan make up my top three although Richard was a clear winner.
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I spotted some of those bowl-shaped glasses with third, half and two-thirds markings in Project 53 in Stockport recently, which is about as crafty as I ever get locally, and that only on CAMRA pub crawls.
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And those bowl-shaped glasses would be an abomination even if the lines were for halves and proper pints,
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“drinking £2 a pint 6X in the Craft Union” was what I was doing an hour ago and before that was Holden’s Mild in the Great Western on my way back from two Snecklifters in the Loggerheads and two Holden’s in Codsall Station – and those six pints were scarcely any more than two cans in certain establishments.
The pennies need counting when you’re 64 with 1½ years to wait for a state pension.
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Oi oi! Boracic lint, me ol’ mukkah?
Nah, not bloomin’ likely. Them rusty nails are cheap out in the sticks.
Still, I’ll do you some pukka oily rags, a pony the ton, best Bulgarian snout mind.
Keep them Adam-and-Eves rolled up me ol’ son.
Catch you later.
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I’m looking at Paul or BeerMat to provide a translation for you 👍
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Did anyone try the local Stafford wine?
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