August 2023. Sheffield.
As you’ll know the Blind Monkey in Walkley is our local, and a significant reason for our house choice back in 2020.
If anything, since we moved it’s only got better, the cask quality getting it in this year’s GBG, prompting a string of celebrity pub tickers (and BRAPA) up one of those hills we’re famous for.
It looks like we’re getting a refurb, perhaps overdue since it’s been unchanged since 2017,
but these things always fill Mrs RM with dread. What colour are we getting ?
Internally, it’s business as usual. Our favoured seat is just to the left hand side of the room below.
What always impresses about the Monkey is the sheer diversity of custom, though the busiest day seems to be Tuesday quiz night when you need to book.
I had a keg version of Pale Rider. It was thin and overcarbonated.
Some things are best left unchanged.
retiredmartin 
Some of the greatest moments in my life have been in pubs, drinking beers. In many cases change has robbed us of either the beer or the pub. Still, there’s always something new to experience.
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There’s a few pubs unchanged since 1917 that haven’t needed a refurbishment. And there’s usually 20p on a pint to pay for the refurbishment.
“…… the sheer diversity of custom” including an old curmudgeon all the way from Stafford.
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It gets all sorts, Paul. Students, mums and dads accompanying children on Uni visits, locals, lone women drinking a pint…
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Thin and overcarbonated? I think you’ll find that’s Fosters.
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I quite like Fosters, Phil. Granted, I’ve only ever had one half pint, 21 years ago in a holiday park on Corsica, but I think that makes me an expert.
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Martin,
How could you forget the Rifle Drum just over five years ago that had you reporting “I bought my PINT of Fosters and took a stool” and that not “only ever had one half pint, 21 years ago in a holiday park on Corsica” but that “I once won two pints of Fosters at a Mark Warner holiday camp on Corsica”?
So your consumption of Fosters is about six times what you now remember !
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Did I have a pint of Fosters or some new-fangled craft beer in the Rifle Drum ? Good job someone takes notes.
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I think that’s pretty conclusive evidence that drinking Fosters will damage your brain.
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Most keg beers are thin and over-carbonated. Luckily there’s a campaign you can join that is vehemently opposed to thin, over-carbonated beers. During the 50 years of its existence, the quantity of thin, over-carbonated beers drunk in the UK has changed to an extent that you just would not believe.
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“Everything passes, everything changes, just do what you think you should do-oo-oo-oo, and some day baby, who knows maybe, I’ll come runnin’, and be cryin’ to you-oo-oo-oo”
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