May 2025 Derby.
And so, to a (third) unscheduled stop on our Derby crawl,
and my own highlight of any Derby trip.
The Woodlark isn’t a Guide regular, I only discovered it in 2018, but it’s where you’ll want to go to see what pubs were like 40 years ago, an era of Football Specials,
Elton John on the stereo (oh, he still is),
and chunky cheese cobs.
And Bass on the pumps.
I bet it’s that Dancing Duck that gets you in the GBG, but the Bass pays the bills. This was the best of the day (NBSS 3.5), when too often handpumps exceeded customers.
Life After Football updated the group on the Artful Dodger in the Maypole, we tried to remember who sang “Love is in the Air”, I marvelled at the Woodlark’s random collection of seats,
and sense of homeliness.
It was all falling apart.
retiredmartin 
All those trendies drinking that fancy new Bass stuff. It’ll never last as long as proper beer like Caramel Custard Doughnut Milk Stout.
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I think you’re right.There’s already a backlash against it on CAMEA Discourse.
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Yes, drinking Bass is an “obsession” but drinking a Caramel Custard Doughnut Milk Stout isn’t !!
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Folk will soon get bored of this Caramel Custard Doughnut Milk Stout craze and move onto Spinach Gose.
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Asparagus Gose seems more likely.
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Is that the Campaign for Easy-drinking Ales?
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In this case, perhaps the Campaign for emetic ales?
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Beers that induce vomiting are an underappreciated subset of the beer market, Scott.
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All hail Donnington SBA.
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Now there’s no need for that sort of language.
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The map point for Derby railway station on your map doesn’t actually correspond with the location of the station on the ground. Just thought you should know in case you are paying for the map in which case a complaint might be in order.
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Yes indeed, I ‘ve never known a railway station such a distance from the railway lines.
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