Here’s some views for you, then.
A bridge over the Atlantic, apparently, and a canon primed (?) to attack deliveries of craft beer. Oh, and a lovely garden in which to enjoy the mist descending.
This is Clachan Seil, one of the most romantic sounding settings for a GBG entry which hove into view just as Mrs RM’s patience with Google was waning.
Seil is a slate island of 551 souls, none of whom were manning the souvenir shop so I can’t offer Seil rock slate as a prize in my next quiz.
The unpronounceable Tigh-an-Truish looks like it could house the entire population of the island.
What a wondrous sign !
Matthew Lawrenson is available on a consultancy basis to identify that font.
We take a seat close to the bar and hope those beams hold the bar up for another 300 years or so.
It’s charming, and now food service is over just a haven for local drinkers and tourists wanting a cup of tea. I wonder if one of them will wander over to the piano and knock out a few Glen Campbell tunes for Mrs RM.
Nope. We get the Steve Wright Show, and Joni Mitchell singing about the island being turned into a parking lot for visitors to the Oban craft beer festival or something.
Another Jarl, sharp and crisp and touching NBSS 3. But the pub, as you’ll see, was pushing a 4.5.
Now, time to check into our luxury accommodation for the night.
retiredmartin 
I remember going in here in 1985 and being served some Ye Olde Traditional Hearty Scotch Broth masquerading as beer 😦
Fortunately it sounds as though they’ve changed the cask since then.
Lovely setting, though.
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I do wonder if the (normally) lone handpump is there as an indicator of provenance of the pub, something the place uses to promote its credentials. Or whether they sell a barrel in 4-5 days and because no-one actually complains (much harder in Covid times anyway) they keep putting it on.
None of the beer in these pubs was really undrinkable, just utterly pointless.
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It’s often seemed to me that in the Highlands the real ale is basically put on for the English tourists.
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That may have worked in the ’90s (Deuchars was quite popular for a while) but on this trip I never actually saw another pint poured or delivered, bar a lone pint of Orkney in Oban on Friday evening. I guess a bit of digging would reveal some cask stats for Scotland (probably skewed by the 2019 CAMRA AGM in Dundee !).
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The local branches don’t tend to list the keg bars on WhatPub, so you can’t work out the proportion.
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That sign alone is worth entry into the GBG
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