retiredmartin

August 2025. Warwick.

Yes !  An actual, bona fide, GBG chapter completion. 3 years on from The Big Completion, I still enjoy that pinking of a map, even when there’s only a trio of new entries.

My final Warwicks pub is in the county town (is it a town ?), and I’m frankly dismayed that I didn’t visit pre-emptively a year ago.

Why (oh why) wasn’t it on the excellent little pub map ?

I guess I should have done more research myself, but in truth I might not have noticed it on What Pub (RIP), tucked away on a new housing estate a mile south of the castle.

Can anyone guess what “The Loneliest Sport” is ?

Probably being a pub ticker in an otherwise empty micropub in a retail arcade, that’s what.

Oh good, some nice cheerful reading at the entrance.

In tests, only one in a hundred million people could tell apart their Ale Hubs and Ale Rooms and Real Ale Classrooms,

but these Hubs have certainly slimmed down their ale ranges.

Obviously you won’t find me complaining about that, but it’s a surprise to see folk travel to a simple bar with a single hand pump and a Bombay Bicycle Club soundtrack in 2025.

So, just as well the Butty Bach is superbly cool and crisp (NBSS 3.5). It’s almost as if the GBG is all about beer quality.

It’s an awkward 20 minutes to be honest. Old bloke in pub with lone (incredibly polite) female, feeling self conscious and wary of striking up the conversation in a way you would in a busier bar.

I’m relieved when 3 young folk pop in, though they’re gone by the time I’ve finished my picnic in the little park across the road.

If you want to know what folk in this affluent suburb are doing,

head next door to the Generous George diner, Hobgoblin pump unused but packed with Madri drinkers.