February 2025. Chichester.
Rushing to finish the Chichester micros before catching up with the Southworths now.
Joan and Dave were in a Proper Pub in the next street; I don’t think they travel thousands of miles to sip thirds in a converted shop,
with seating like this.
and no hand pumps.
I think as a CAMRA member you’re supposed to ask if any of the beers are real ale, or Key Keg or whatever, but do I care.
The Little Monster beer was tasty, the soundtrack was naff Fleetwood Mac (it had been edgier in the Escapist),
and the young (and therefore chatty and enthusiastic) barman was setting up the upstairs room for the evenings “Wings Challenge”.
I thought this involved standing up for 5 minutes and arguing the case for “Mull of Kintyre” over “Jet”, but actually it’s how many chicken bones can you stuff down your face*.
We explained we’d not be needing a table for that, and headed to the Park.
*31 is the record
retiredmartin 
“as a CAMRA member you’re supposed to ask if any of the beers are real ale, or Key Keg or whatever, but do I care”
I’ve sent the above to CAMRA HQ by email but I got an out of office message. There’s still time for you to skip the country before they sic JD Vance on you. That’s what happens if you don’t say thank you.
I may have become a little confused.
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These are confusing times.
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“how many chicken bones can you stuff down your face* – I am sometimes glad that I don’t get out much.
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To keep abreast of on license developments I get to a micropub each year, the Rat Race last year and Newport’s Stag and Scotch yesterday. Unnervingly it wasn’t poky and had proper seating and known beers ( Hobsons Town Crier, Salopian Lemon Dream ) but an inadequate lavatory complied with the Herne rules. As the first day of spring I was celebrating putting my jacket away for the next nine months and was delighted to find the Pheasant, with a very warm welcome, and the Honeysuckle, one of three beers now being Banks’s Amber Bitter as good I’d very recently enjoyed in Wolverhampton and Rugeley, even better than last year.
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Little Monsters has a Cadillac of a bathroom. Fully handicapped accessible. One of the best of the month. Runner up is The Huntsman in Bath. Both 5.0.
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That’s good to hear, makes a big difference.
What did you think of their beer ?
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You need to go in the lavatory in the nearest Wetherspoons before you go in the micropub.
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One way to work up a hill walker’s thirst.
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