More places you’ve never heard of, this time a gorgeous little village of 901 with TWO (2) GBG on either side of the road.
Kirkoswald is in the heart of the Eden Valley (aka Lake District-lite), where apparently I have relatives, possibly in the Waterbeach rather than legal sense of the world.
The only bit of the empty mass between Carlisle and Penrith I’d been to before this week was Armathwaite (arma-twit) and that had a particular “other-worldly” feel that Kirkoswald has too.
17:30, not a soul about. But there’s a light on in the two pubs (sadly the residents of the former Black Bull have kept their sign up to taunt us too).
Half the village are in the Crown.
“Ownership – ALL” says WhatPub, and the crowd gives the impression of a Community pub, with a 4 year old at the bar entertaining locals.
I like children in pubs; it’s the regulars sitting at the bar that never makes me feel really welcome, and service is a bit perfunctory if I’m honest. Which I am.
Proper beer range though.
There’s a lot of table reservations, too. I ignore them all.
The Banks’s is creamy and decent, a solid NBSS 3 leaving tantalising lacings.
“The Brownies are a blatant paedophile breeding ground” says a Geordie at the bar.
“Shhhh” says the Mum of the 4 year old.
“Am I wrong ?”
You get the idea. A Proper Pub, but time to cross the road.
I take my glass back and say “Thanks”. Not a word.
retiredmartin 
Looks a nice village. Is it the sparkler that creates the lacings (stupid question perhaps, but I’ve had so many pints in the south that look like squash)?
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Oooh, good question Morten.
I didn’t think so, but Paul will know. Paul knows EVERYTHING.
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Could be a glassware issue too. I sent back TWO pints in the Princess Louise in London on Friday. The third was OK, even if it came from the same barrel (lager though, so I don’t know it the same applies to real ale).
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Definitely. Clean glassware is the thing most people quote referring to lacings.
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Dead Man’s Slack. One of the better location names on a map. Odd comment on the Brownies. If they are the same as over here, don’t mothers typically run that with their daughters as members?
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^^^ Morten’s comment above. The Princess Louise (& the Fitzroy Tavern) are well overdue a visit from Humphrey imo.
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No, no, no. He’d shut them both down immediately. Loads of people using phones.
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As Morten says, keep Humphrey well away from his pubs, William. 😉
Give him a stretch project developing a new craft DIPA or something.
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Read my blog on the Princess Louise. (Exclusive – yes I still have a blog and expect it to resume very soon).
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And a very good blog it is, Peter.
I’m guessing this might be the post
https://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/sloppy-behaviour.html
You might be interested in Paul’s contemporaneous report;
https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/wot-no-yorkshire-stingo.html
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That’s the one.
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In the run up to Chistmas, I was one of those people using a mobile phone in the Princess Louise. 🙂
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You can confess your guilt to me.
Trust you had a good day.
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Bloody hell that’s a remarkable amount of beeemats
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