2nd March 2020
More of those epic fails you lot love to read about, sitting at home in your underpants* drinking cans of DIPA.
Next up I head down towards Cartmel, best known for, er, sticky toffee pudding.
Oh yeah, there’s horsey racing.
“Cartmel was the site of the Gay Future ‘coup’ in 1974 that involved switching horses before a race and relying on the lack of communications at the course.” says Wiki.
Racing takes place at such picturesque sounding places, doesn’t it. Chepstow, Uttoxeter, Kelso, Punchestown, Hexham, Wolverhampton. Cartmel gets huge crowds over its Bank Holiday meets, though you wonder where they all park.
1,831 souls in Cartmel and Grange West, whatever that is, and eight entries on WhatPub,
NONE of them in the GBG due to their insistence on only selling sticky toffee pudding flavoured DIPA. Some attractive old gastropubs for the gentlefolk thronging the main square on a Monday in March.
None of them say “pub” to me, but they nearly all say “Craft” on the wall, along with the dreaded “Food.Bar.Rooms“.
If you’ve been to Stratford-on-Avon you’ll know what to expect.If you go, visit outside the races and pop in Well Bread for a homemade chocolate cake. Don’t resist.
I pressed on to Cark, with Duncan’s warning ring in my ears. “You’re brave, visiting Lake District pubs in Monday in Winter”. He was right.
*So sue me, I know Amazon has pics
I have had Bass in the Engine Inn, many, many years ago when it was a Bass tied House.
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Grief. Must dig out Wickingman list and see if any Bass in Cumbria now.
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None by the looks of it. I’m guessing that pub would have been part of the estate acquired with R. F. Case of Barrow in the Charrington United Breweries days.
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The King’s Arms has Draught Bass according to WhatPub
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Doh!
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I’m sitting in muddy apparel with socks over the trousers. Is there now a dress code for reading your blog?
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Clothes are best. Waistcoats made from Black Country bar towels are the worst.
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Our eldest was nearly thrashed with a crop, for saying “horse racing”, rather than plain “racing” amongst such types.
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Horsey running 🐴
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I don’t think I’ve ever had the pleasure of sticky toffee pudding. It sounds lovely though. And as you suggested has no doubt been adopted as a beer flavor by now by one brewery or another!
When they put “Food” before “Bar” on the list, that tells you all you need to know. 🙂
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Good point.
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Wondered where my old bike would turn up. Had to check how many of the 8 – a remarkable number by modern standards – I have been to. Turns out to be 4. One of the others has no real ale; 2 are hotels; and one a brewery tap. More effort required.
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Going by the attrition rate on jump courses, can’t help wondering if the horses who don’t survive end up supplying the traditional “sticky” bit?
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Thanks Scott 😱
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Buns must be Cumbrian for Baps / Barm Cakes / Cobs / Rolls.
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