March 2024. Wrenthorpe. Wakefield.
You can tell a good “community pub” a mile off. Their Facebook posts will alternate between live music, live football and live beer;
and Wrenthorpe’s New Wheel, a Wakefield award winner (and therefore pre-emptive tip), is a classic of its kind.
An ultra rare visit to Wakefield’s north-eastern suburbs, first since Alverthorpe Working Mens Club I reckon,
and as a bonus I timed my visit to coincide with music night on the Easter weekend.
It’s packed. If the cask isn’t good over a holiday weekend you’re stuffed.
The beer was great. It looks like they’re running with 3 you’ve heard of an “interesting” interloper like Abbeydale or Chinese Chinese, but this seemed to be a time for the “Landlord test”.
Cool and chewy, NBSS 3.5. Challenge passed. And only £3.30. That’s a pint, Southerners.
The bigger challenge was to my eardrums, the only free seat being a yard from Roadstunner’s speakers (PRESS Play now),
as he took us through the classic modern playbook of The Killers, Stone Roses and The Stereophonics.
On the table was one of those catalogues listing the 100 tunes he’d play at your request, but like Kratatoa’s karaoke.
Scandalously, that 100 didn’t include the new CAMRA AGM song (“Fill me up (to the pint measure), buttercup”) to be launched in Dundee.
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