retiredmartin

October 2024. Killamarsh.

These posts are brought to you from the excitingly named Emergency Admissions Unit 3 at Addenbrookes, sadly NOT a new craft bar.

Guzzle in Killamarsh IS a craft bar, my penultimate Derbyshire newbie leaving just a (you guessed it) brewery tap in Little Eaton to finish the set.

50 minutes on a tram, almost the entire length of the Blue line,

then a grim 20 minutes walk from Halfway (to what ?) across the county border.

A sizeable village of 10,000, with a lot of employment in the sprawling light industrial estate housing Fuggle Bunny.

But it was drizzling, so all you get from me is the pub,

a smart place with a fantastically friendly barmaid but one that won’t be making the Paul Mudge Official Guide to Proper Pub Seating.

Not that I care about these things, of course,

but that’s a genuinely fascinating beer range for folk who like that sort of thing.

Ashover is local, and their Butts Pale is superbly cool and crispy (3.5).

They’ve got crackling in one of those big machines,

perfect for me to put Mr Mudge’s theory to the test. Drink beer, eat pork snack, watch the head on the beer magically disappear.

It didn’t. Perhaps it only works with scratchings and not the inferior crackling ?

I refuse to believe that Paul would make anything up.