DOOM BAR REPLACES BASS IN LINCOLN’S MORNING STAR

October 2024. Lincoln.

Slightly sad news from Youlgrave

where Ian has called time on the Bass inventory, but to an extent his great work is done, if the number of times the 🔺pops up in pubs is anything to go by.

Perhaps with time on his hands he can turn his attention to a directory of the nations real favourite beer.

Our group of Lincoln Pub Men didn’t meet any Bass on this trip,

but 20 years ago, if you turned left here,

you’d have found it in abundance at the Morning Star.

This was one of the standout pubs in a CAMRA guide to great British pub crawls, before CAMRA decided that pub crawls weren’t something to be encouraged and there was more cash in running adverts from Beer 52 for craft cans.

I’m sure CAMRA would object  to the only pic I took of the Morning Star. Even “woke” Si would find it problematic.

But you’ll get the sense of an astonishingly plain top-of-town boozer with equally plain beer range.

And I mean both of those as compliments. Back in the GBG after a bit of a yo-yo existence, this is yet more evidence that the Beer Guide is all about beer quality.

Which makes it the teeniest but disappointing that the Doom Bar (NBSS 3)wasn’t quite as crisp as at, say, the Birdcage in the lower town,

though everyone else enjoyed their (ubiquitous) Tim Taylor, and we were having such great chat I almost stopped for a Proper Job.

You know, if you didn’t have pubs, where on earth would you meet up for pointless discussions with Americans about life ?

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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

17 thoughts on “DOOM BAR REPLACES BASS IN LINCOLN’S MORNING STAR”

  1. I remember during the 1980s the Strugglers being the Lincoln pub for Bass, Draught Bass from Burton and XXXX Mild from Tadcaster.

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      2. ‘Bass’ is what it says on the pumpclip. ‘Draught Bass’ is how we talk about it.
        Rather like when ‘Ind Coope Burton Ale’ was what it said on the pumpclip but ‘DBA’, from the cask label, was what we called it.
        I’m finding and drinking more Draught Bass than ever, 85 pints drunk so far this year, and would like to think that Ian has retired having saved the beer.

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      4. Meanwhile I don’t think the country’s best-selling cask beer, or “the nations real favourite beer” as you call it, will be at the top for much longer. Over the last few months I’ve seen the keg version alongside the cask in quite a few pubs and the cask gone from some of them, like Kennys Sports Bar on Sunday – no, not my sort of pub but in the interests of research I had a look in for the first time since it was the Trades and Labour Club decades ago.

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      5. The comedic impact of this thread all hinges on whether Martin really knew what Paul meant, and was making a simple play on words point, or just wanted clarification.

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  3. Thanks Paul and Martin for your comments. Whilst more publicans want Draught Bass I think my attempt to save it has failed. We now have a brewer (Carlsberg) and a brand owner (AB InBev) who don’t have much history of saving cask beer. The press release from Carlsberg about the closure of Banks’s had a classic corporate sweetener. We’ll spend money and refocus Burton on craft and cask. Sweeteners don’t last very long, a bit like yesterday’s chip paper.

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