Extensive market research shows that including the pub and city names in the blog title gets you more views, and its blog views that pay for those pints of Doom Bar I keep giving away in the quiz.
December 2023. Sheffield.
Turn a different corner and we wouldn’t have walked straight from the Riverside to Kelham Island Museum,
a warren of flashy new builds,
with the odd famous pub stuck in between the high rise.
I only dragged Mrs RM in here, kicking and screaming, because Tim Thomas told me I had to “check out” the Elusive Brewing Tap takeover.
And given how elusive Elusive had been (their weekend only tap my only untucked GBG23 entry) it seemed appropriate to take Tim’s advice.
The KIT was doing what the KIT does, selling loads of beer to allcomers, but I only had an eye for the Mince Pie Barleywine for Mrs RM.
And the Imperial Stout for me.
Slightly disappointingly, the only seating was underneath the painting in the conservatory. Tim will identify it; I guessed “Adoration of the Holy Lamb”.
The cask stout was stunning, rich as treacle. The keg barley wine a little thin.
So it needed a Best of Three, just like on that new Dr Who episode, and Oregon Trail proved the best of the three.
But frankly, the Tavern is the winner, with enough trade to put on events like this and be confident of the trade.
As always, quality wins
I hope those £500k flats in Kelham are worth it.
retiredmartin 
Not connected, but I’ve just had a report that the Brewery Tap in Waterbeach has closed. Seems a strange time to pack it in.
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That’s not a brewery tap it’s a chain pub named after an older brewery. Very confusing! Think pub closure is temporary.
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I think the painting is the Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymous Bosch
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I knew I had one cultured reader, Alan.
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Garden of Earthly Delights was the first track on XTC’s album Oranges and Lemons, but Andy Partridge’s garden sounds a lot more cheerful than Bosch’s hideous nightmare.
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Great album, as I recall. You have good musical taste, Will.
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Yes, The Garden of Earthly Delights, AKA a night out in Lerwick.
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Thanks for your praise for one of my favourite pubs. I arrived towards the end of the tap takeover, and my pint of Elusive Pipe Dream, the jester-hopped best bitte,r was end-of-barrel and rapidly changed for another, which was pretty disgusting – well, it’s only to be expected of a beer called Lay All Your Glogg On Me. I was following your maxim that “tasters come in pints” but I could only drink a half.
I took the remainder back to the bar so they could pour it down the sink – you’d have been looking for a plant pot, but I like to think I’m more civilised. It wasn’t off or wrong, it was just horrible, and they gave me a pint of Blue Bee American Five Hop gratis.
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That Oregon Trail pumpclip reminds me of a song when I were a lad, Two Wheels on my Wagon.
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