August 2024. Headcorn.
On our way home from the in-laws we stopped for the night in the Weald of Kent Golf Club near Maidstone, which in fairness is a huge diversion but needs must, as Mrs RM never wants to spend the night in her childhood bedroom again.
A bit of a surprise that a golf club provides cheaper rooms than Gillingham or Ashford Travelodges, but you sometimes find these hospitality venues with the bargains, and the motel rooms are a bit “functional”.
The club house (no CAMRA card needed) is not an unsung gem.
Annoyingly, there’s a “Real Ale Available” symbol on What Pub,
which virtually compels me to nip in for a late pint,
in the company of 3 golfing mates who sound like they’ve come from Basildon but probably just over the estuary.
One handpump, well hidden and clearly appealing to folk who like local beers they’ve heard of.
Why !
It’s hard work, watery and defiantly unchewy.
I’d have given it a 1.5, but it gets 2 because the charming barmaid sings along to Billie Eilish and that’s all you can hope for in a golf club bar.
Talking of Billie, I thought she was supposed to be making this closing ceremony bearable ?
retiredmartin 
My only memory of Headcorn is a very large Jade Money Plant in the railway station about fifty years ago.
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Why oh why oh why do macro brewers insist on putting their beer in such terrible glassware. I know I should close my eyes and think of England, but a glass like that definitely reduces my enjoyment of the beer in it.
(The Real) Mark
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I thought you were Irish, much more pleasant to think of.
But you’re right, and the Adnam’s glass is exhibit B.
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Even the Irish lay back and think of England…
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Is Corby English ?
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Scotlish. A surprising number of England fans at the Cardigan on Corby’s Highland Gathering day, probably a different story in the Grampian and Irish Clubs though.
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Its still better than The Dimpled Pint Pot I’d say.
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I’ll give you that.
My lad doesn’t like the squat pint glass e.g. Camden.
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I’d like a glass with no writing at all on it.
On second thoughts a line 15mm from the top with the words “imperial pint” by it would be very welcome.
I’d still rather have an Adnams glass than a dimpled pint pot though.
Which might be odd since I drank many a pint of flat Bass from them at The Chequers in Stanton By Dale and elsewhere back in my halcyon days.
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I’m not a golf type but I’ve had lunch in a few golf clubs and always found the food to be excellent. The roast beef at Wicklow Golf Club was the best I’ve ever eaten.
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Guaranteed food trade, I guess.
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Very good point Bill.
I’ve only ever had the one, but it was tip top.
Probably involved a properly paid chef who valued their position?
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