May 2024. Sheffield.
More exciting holiday snaps coming shortly, after some haute cuisine from Walkley’s two closest alternating GBG entries that bring the boys to the ticking door.
Simon didn’t warm to the Raven (GBG24) as much as the Monkey (GBG23), and it lacks the lived-in factor and quirkiness of its neighbour,
but it has the more consistently good (and cheap) cask and pubs don’t get in the Guide to entertain BRAPA, you know.
The gentlefolk and Hi Vis bloke have the Pale, except it’s not called Pale of course, so why I have the keg I’ll never know.
Can it be that Deya is still regarded as exotica even though Steady Rolling Man is now as ubiquitous as Verdant Lightbulb Punk IPA once was.
A pint of Magazine Cover, would have gone well with a Stilton topped pork pie half.
But I resisted, and immediately regretted it out in the sun waiting for the identikit craft keg pale to warm up a bit.
How do folk not recognise Bass as a distinctive beer when these keg pales are all the same ?
I wished I’d had the 8.4% Frangipane Stout. Yeah, that would have been a great idea.
Instead, jealous of the gentlefolk sipping their pints of cask, I popped back inside for a healthy and nutritious packet of poppadoms (aka “pappodams”) with that gooey mango chutney that’s the 2014 equivalent of the Ploughmans In A Bag.
And seem to have emerged with a pint of the Loxley Halliday Bitter as well, which improved greatly in the sunshine to a round 3.5.
Mrs RM decided that a packet of crisps and dip wasn’t an acceptable tea, and instead joined me in the Blind Monkey for chicken wings.
Friendly reminder to blokes. ALWAYS (always) wash your hands after eating chilli coated products BEFORE going for a wee.
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Much as I like mango 🥭 chutney, I wouldn’t regard it as the ideal accompaniment to a glass of beer.
The warning to blokes, that they should wash their hands before going for a pee, is one that is well known to laboratory workers! 😄
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I never learn ! Thai food with those red chillis is the worst.
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The first time I did that, it bought tears to my eyes, which I then rubbed. That didn’t make it better. So these days after handling chillies, if I need a Jimmy I do it sitting down. There’s no shame in it; and it’s a whole lot better than having your old lad stinging like a bastard.
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and well known to printers, proper letterpress printers that is.
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“…and pubs don’t get in the Guide to entertain BRAPA, you know.”
Don’t tell Simon that.
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