retiredmartin

May 2024. Sheffield.

One of the bonuses of moving to Sheffield 3 years ago is that I get so many visits from famous Pub Men and Women; the really nice ones even stay over.

That’s what a guaranteed 3 new entries in the UK’s top pub city gets you. Can you imagine visiting someone in Milton Keynes ?

Duncan visited Triple Point Brewing as the temperature hit 22 on Bank Holiday Sunday after what felt like months of grim weather, and the vast “garden” on this industrial estate tap was completely packed.

So I bagged Duncan a seat by the bar inside where he could neck his 210 minute half before his onward connection to somewhere exotic. #TickersHelpTickers

But it MUST be a cask beer, of course, even though it’s keg that Triple Point specialise in. Superiority of Cask is the one True Faith,

which coincidentally is what was playing as the Pubmeister strode purposefully in.

I’d given him a choice of the two cask, Gold and Sabitora (he picked Gold),

and had helpfully already scored all 3 on Untappd so I could see my little figure (taken off a Stef Chura T-Shirt) appear on the board.

Duncan added his own check-in minutes later, but I could tell he was a defeated man.

Ooh. I’ve just realised the lovely staff wrote “SAB” on the glass to tell them apart, what a helpful thing for folk who care what they’re drinking.

Triple Point have impressed many, including GBG tickers, with their beer, though perhaps the cask tonight wasn’t as crisp as previously.

Talking of crisps,

“Scooby Snacks” are crisps, aren’t they ?