retiredmartin

March 2024. Birmingham.

I wouldn’t have guessed that the new Bundobust in Brum was a sure-fire pre-emptive tick,

with typically just the lone hand pump in Manchester or Leeds, and some deviant tickers would consider Bundobust done because this place, next to the Welly, used to be the ill-fated Pint Shop.

But what do I know ?

Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (4) cask beers from the great and the good.

And in all fairness the 2-minute-and-gone half of a Salopian stout was well into GBG standards (NBSS 3+), though I suspect the pouring could do with a little practise (see top). Paul would have asked for a top-up.

I was just pleased to see the place busy, and delighted to avoid the undoubted charms of the Lost & Found, despite a Marston’s house beer and the promise of “decadence”.

Opposite that place is the Briar Rose where an intrepid journalist just spent 24 hours in a Spoons; you can read about it here, but I promise you you’d never get out of the clickbait alive.

And that was my 5 hours in Brum and Cannock done.

One thing; I have no idea where I too this photo on the way home.

I’d assume it was the train toilet, but that would imply it was working. Can that be true ?