December 2023. Sheffield.
On Saturday afternoon we had a guest from Bristol. Just for a change they weren’t visiting the Blind Monkey.
I suggested a half in the Old Shoe, a very Bristol sort of bar. It ended up with a min-crawl round a hotch potch of central Sheffield that I rather enjoyed, though the camera and notebook were rather hidden away.
The Old Shoe, with Christmas market outside, was heaving at 2pm, and despite an excellent beer range the bar was just a bit too noisy for conversation. Plum Porter and, er, orange wine here.
I thought the Church House, just behind the Cathedral, was a good example of a plain pub that shoppers go to on a Saturday afternoon (before live music starts in the evening). Some good Belgian Blue, and decent seating.
Which brings us to Fagans (apostrophe optional),
the new (and only) home of Draught Bass in Sheffield.
Again, heaving on a Saturday afternoon. Sheffield’s streets seem much quieter than Manchester’s, but the pubs are often packed.
The most notable feature is that each table housed folk drinking the same beer. One Guinness, one lager, one Bass.
All ages here, most of them in puffer jackets.
It might be a fiver a pint your Bass, but Fagan’s is as busy as I’ve seen it,
and that Bass is currently in my Top 10 Bass outlets in the UK. Cool, rich, chewy (NBSS 4). The second pint was definitely a bad idea.
Not really.
retiredmartin 
But was the Bass drinking as well as in the Jolly Sailor yesterday.
Mix it equal measures with the orange wine and you’ll get a less fizzy approximation of the bottled Biarritz Watneys did fifty years ago.
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Agreed Paul, the Bass was drinking very well in the Jolly Sailor yesterday.
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It certainly was !
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