Yes, more Stafford, it never ends.
Next we did the cultural bit.
For a bit, anyway.
Oh, yes, the Hovis street, I wanted Will to see that.
“What’s keeping you ?” said Paul, who’d made the Bird In Hand half an hour before. His pace is undiminished in 18 months.
Now this was Black Country Ales second attempt to impress me tonight, and it won on welcome,
if not quite on beer. Pig on the Wall is my default pint in a Black Country pub, even when it never quite tastes like it should.
Of course, this post just invites a debate about whether that’s a cheese and onion cob, or bap, or barm, or bread roll. Paul stuck to pork scratchings, which are less controversial.
Will made notes.
My only notes say “Will put a line through it“, which sounds like a Destiny’s Child lyric.
If you know what Will put a line through, do let me know.
retiredmartin 
Great to see Stafford Paul out doing what he does best again!!! BCA pubs are a massive addition to the Midlands…
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LAF,
Thanks.
Yes, I fear many more pubs would have been lost if they hadn’t been taken on by the likes of BCA and Titanic ( though they’ve given up the White Star in Stoke ) and Dorbiere who have four Stafford pubs.
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I’ve never been for a beer in Stafford Paul -apart from the football club – but it looks terrific.
They’ve still got the exchange in Stone though ?
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LAF,
Yes, Titanic still got the exchange as far as I know.
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Fire, cob, pint. What more is needed?
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Pub cat or three.
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Does the Bag o Nails in Bristol do cobs?
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My informed guess having read Will’s reviews of Stafford elsewhere is that he was amending his notes to reflect the fact that he had to get a duff beer changed.
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Well done, Luke. It’s good to know that someone is reading my reviews on Pubs Galore. https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/34513/ “… Boot Bitter 4.0% (from Repton, near Derby) was so far past its best, with a hint of sourness about it, that I took it back and got it changed for BCA Fireside Bitter 5.0%.”
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Luke is a creep.
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That’s a little harsh.
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Only a “little” ?
Actually, just read your review of the Bird In Hand https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/34513/ and thought how fair and well-written it was (I thought the manager/bar person deserved an extra mark) & how telling that the previous report chose to praise the pump count !
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I appreciate your praise for my modest effort.
I thought the previous reviewer on PuG was being factual rather than laudatory when reporting eight handpumps.
It depends whether we think ‘eight pumps good’ or ‘my god what are they doing’. The implication is in the mind of the reader, rather than the writer.
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Fair point. In the context of a glowing report and a 9/10 rating it seems like quantity is praised.
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If the only pint Alan drank was really good and he marked the pub accordingly, was he, by inference, praising the large number of beers on the bar? Possibly. It’s likely, in my view, that he had absorbed the general acceptance of choice being good, but I don’t think his review *necessarily* reads that way.
When you go in a pub and drink the only beer and it’s fantastic, you often mention, or at least imply, that it’s *because* there’s only one beer. And I don’t disagree with you, though I would say there are exceptions at both ends of the spectrum.
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Bit deep, that.
Perhaps I need a poll.
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