September 2023. Deepcar, Sheffield.
Thursday saw the arrival of a new Good Beer Guide.
Obviously I can’t reveal anything about that or the CAMRA folk pay you a visit to withdraw your 50p vouchers and I can’t be having that.
So read nothing into my visit on Friday to the King & Miller in Deepcar, a 25 minute bus trip from home past the keg Sam Smiths glories of Oughtibridge, and a giant recycling plant.
There’s a Sam Smiths in Stocksbridge (of Jamie Vardy fame), contiguous with Deepcar, so I’ll do the place properly for you later.
The main discussion point locally is where Deepcar stops, and Stocksbridge starts. I reckon just here;
I’d walked past the King & Miller a couple of times before; why hadn’t I gone in ? It wasn’t in the GBG.
Well, the cartoonish Bradfield sign is a bit off-putting, I guess.
but the interior makes up for that. Tennant Bros, but Stafford Paul knew that.
Very simple, very clean, very welcoming.
But six (6) Bradfield hand pumps ?
And which one ? Not sure I know which is the Bradfield stock beer. I went Pale.
Someone was drinking it though. It was cool and rich, somewhere between a 3 and a 3.5.
Helps that it’s £3 a pint, mind. Same as the Sam’s.
“Ya’ll right” says the bloke opposite.
“Never better” I say. I cannot lie. “How you ?”
“Same day, different s**t” he says. I think that may be the wrong way round.
“Drinking beer with the sun shining through, living the dream !” I tell him.
He’s unconvinced.
retiredmartin 
I wouldn’t mind “same day, different s**t”, at least it would provide variety.
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Funny thing is, I think that’s what he actually said. He had been in since 10 minutes before opening, mind.
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New rule submission for BRAPA rules: all beers must have a coat of arms.
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All pubs, anyway!
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I still haven’t been in the King & Millar after more than 25 years in Sheffield. I’m not sure that the presence of six (6) beers from Bradfield provide much of an enticement.
And you won’t get me in there with your “somewhere between 3 and 3.5” fiddle-faddle. (It’ll never get in the GBG with scores like those.)
I’m a sucker for a coat of arms, though, and at my age the buses and trams are free.
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Your taste buds are fiddle faddled after all that Donnington beer you’re drinking Will.
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My 2024 GBG arrived today. Annoyingly it came with that ghastly Iron Mauden cover despite my specifying the alternative on the CAMRA website. #oldmanproblems
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The Iron Maiden version has less entries (any pubs with prog rock on their jukebox have been excluded ) than the “plain” version, so easier to tick.
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I’ve just posted on Beer & Pubs Forum a brief summary of my Donnington research project. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/beerandpubs/donnington-brewery-and-its-beers-t488.html#p9348
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Had my very first pint in a public house in the King and Miller way back in 1980. I was attending the Deepcar Annex to Stocksbridge College so it may not have been a technically legal pint, it was however 35p (Trophy Bitter – Keg). Your blog has tempted me to pay a return visit. Keep up the good work – one of the daily rays of sunshine in what can be slightly murky times.
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That’s very kind of you, and thanks for the memories (though possibly not of the Trophy !).
The King and Miller was a lovely, lively, drinkers pub. I’d be interested to hear if you remember it if you do visit.
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