I’m suddenly miles behind on the blog again. How has that even happened ?
April 2026. Birmingham.
I’d just had the overdue glass of water on my Curated Exploration of Public Houses (CEPH), but forgotten to eat.
Across the road from The Wolf, Mr Tasty offered artisanal pizza (possibly),
but you’ll know how seriously I take my diet.
I headed back towards Colmore and posher Brum, where the Wesleyan‘s shiny HQ reminds me where the fees on Dad’s investments get spent.
See the cars they drive round here !
Next to all that construction work is the brand new Society, the Brum take on Manchester’s food court with a craft bar.
OK, I can see “Steady Rolling Man” up there, so it’s hardly cutting edge, but that cask range is good enough,
and the Attic Quarter is a cool, crisp 3.5. More enjoyable than Attic’s own tap, and judging by other beer scores I reckon Society is a pre-emptive tick.
I ordered a nice wrap from the Indian place,
and left just in time to catch the train home.
But not too soon so as to get distracted by the Wellington again.
retiredmartin 
Just seen the memo from CAMRA HQ announcing that half points will be removed from the NBSS from 1st June. That’ll set the cat amongst the pigeons in some quarters, although I’ve never used them myself
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I missed that. An obsession with tinkering characterises CAMRA.
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It’s not so much removing half points but the big news in St Albans was replacing six numbers by six, or seven to be pendantic, words – undrinkable, poor, acceptable, good, very good, excellent – which is what I suggested four years ago.
I’m very sorry if I missed you on Friday afternoon but was poorly and delayed with losing my bearings and doing a complete circuit of Clarence Park rather that cutting across it.
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Glorious picture of the wedge-shaped building opposite Wolf.
I crossed that road several times in rain and rush hour traffic last Wednesday trying to get a decent photo and failed miserably. Sun shining on the righteous again, I see.
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Years ago there was way more greenery coming out of it. Someone probably braved the height and weeded it out.
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The most striking example of “trees growing out of buildings” used to be Halifax, but that’s changed beyond recognotion.
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I thought you’d got the “standing in the middle of the street taking pub photos” down to a tee in Tutbury.
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No trip to Birmingham is complete without a walk through Pigeon Park. Hope the oddbods were behaving at the time of your visit.
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Birmingham is much improved from my first impressions of it 30 odd years ago. Walking in from Aston Uni to the Bullring through the underpasses I thought it was a dump. We had a Balti quite centrally in a place that was shut down when pants were found in the cooking (this is true). We never found “Balti knickers” again.
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I can go one worse than that with a curry house in Coventry in the mid 90s. I’ll say no more!
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The mind boggles ! (You must have pics).
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