March 2025. Loughborough.
Despite his looks Quinno is actually younger than I am, so doesn’t remember those magical times when the Good Beer Guide described entries as ” basic town pub”, “rough pub, women tolerated” and “workingman’s pub”, which was all the description you needed in 1975, in an age before street art.
I don’t remember those days, either, but I do recall Loughborough’s Peacock in Factory Street as one of a few “workingman’s pubs”, so this was a must despite being squeezed out of the GBG by “trendy style bars”.
You’re greeted at the door by a sign advertising “Spanky” and “Bite”,
which suggests the Peacock may have taken a new direction entirely, but a mixed mid-afternoon crowd and “The Winner Takes It All* ” reassures us.
Oh, yes, it’s still “Bass only”, till someone decides that six hand pumps would get them back in the Guide. Don’t do it !
Don’t be fooled.
They’re both Bass, but because Quinno is now King of the Red Triangle I let him have the proper glass.
I think we may have had ever so slightly different views here, but the Bass with tight head the workingman’s choice, while us southern softies opt for it flat (or banker). I say 3.5.
*”Their second best track”, says Quinno.
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The two Ts out and about.
Oh the stories I have of the Sir back in Aberystwyth days. Brains then I think, rather than Bass.
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T for Real Ale Twats ?
That’s rude mate.
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A good example of a CAMRA chairman who’s pubs before beer.
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Banks (RIP) and Worthingtons in 97 when I first touched down. Brains only started making inroads around 2000.
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“Oh, yes, it’s still “Bass only”, till someone decides that six hand pumps would get them back in the Guide” reminds me that in Uttoxeter on Wednesday the Vaults had FIVE pumpclips for FIVE handpumps, but reassuringly all five with that popular red triangle.
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Well, I reckon “Knowing Me, Knowing You” is their best track, despite Steve Coogan’s efforts to make it unlistenable, and “Name of the Game” is very good too. And surely “Dancing Queen” is quite close behind, meaning that “The Winner Takes It All” misses out on the podium positions.
I was actually there in the 1970s, unlike you young’uns, so I know.
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Definitely “Angelo” was their finest.
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So, is there a national Bass day this year?
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Easter Saturday, traditionally. 1 April is Doom Bar Day.
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