THE ABBOT IN CODICOTE’S GOAT IS THE “BEER OF THE GODS”

March 2025. Codicote. Hertfordshire.

We’re just back from Luton (Airport, oo-ee-oo), with quite a tale to tell, but before posts on Russian theme pubs and MoldovanTomato Gose, one last GBG tick in dear old England.

Time for a pint before an early flight, sadly not in luscious Luton itself, but in a village that’s eluded the GBG for as long as I’ve been ticking it.

Actually, I’m sure I did all of Codicote’s sturdy looking pubs when we lived up the road in Hitchin, but of course spreadsheets and pre-emptive ticks weren’t invented in the mid-90s.

Even if I have done the Goat 30 years ago, it’s worth popping in this white-boarded gem.

Still taking food orders at 3pm on a Monday, your actual afternoon drinkers trade,

classic Benskins sign,

cosy and rambling, cheery landlady and foreign coinage on the timbers (sadly, no Transnistrian pfennigs).

Mrs RM has a sip of the Abbot, the Landlord being too rare a pint for her.

“Mmm, the beer of the gods” she says, too loudly, and I haven’t the heart to tell her it’s a solid 3.5, rather than one of those 5s that Will writes about.

She may be a over-generous beer scorer, but she’s still my GOAT.

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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.

16 thoughts on “THE ABBOT IN CODICOTE’S GOAT IS THE “BEER OF THE GODS””

      3. Tetchy? Me?
        Good heavens no.
        I’m patient and conciliatory to a fault.
        If you want tetchy, then go to a website where comments like this must be put in square brackets.

        That said, even as a child watching Miss Great Britain, when Michael Aspel asked some beswimsuited bimba what she liked, and the inevitable Travel And Meeting People came back, I could never understand why he never followed with “Why???”

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  2. Since I started beer scoring I’ve only had Abbot two or three times, and I don’t think any of them were 3.5. Does this mean I have to visit Codicote to make sure you haven’t been bribed?

    I’m glad you got your pun on Goat polished. Nice one. 😁 Time well spent on the plane?

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      1. Paul, I don’t keep a running tally but had pints of both Pedigree and Pride recently after a period of some time.

        I’m happy to say that both were drinking ergatively.

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      3. Etu, I had 58 Pedigree and 7 Pride last year, since you ask, that obviously being with living much nearer Burton than Chiswick. Running a tally aids moderation which is of course true temperance.

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