As mentioned already, GBG2019 sees Milton Keynes emerge as an unexpected winner. As many re-entries as total newbies, all making Si wish he was doing Bucks all over again. Mind, FOUR of those symbols are microbreweries, not pubs. If only MK CAMRA had given me a sneak preview of the GBG19 entries I’d have visited… Continue reading EMBER INNS IN MILTON KEYNES. NOT AS BAD AS YOU’D HOPED.
Tag: Buckinghamshire
WYCOMBE – DISRAELI GEARS, CRAFT BEERS
My headline writer is on holiday this week so I’ve had to create one by picking random ’60s LPs with a vague Wycombe connection and adding the words “Craft Beers” for outrage factor. The last time I mentioned Wycombe on this blog I triggered a resident, so I’m going to be a bit careful with… Continue reading WYCOMBE – DISRAELI GEARS, CRAFT BEERS
A RADNAGE RIOT
If I’ve learned one thing about blogging, it’s that folk prefer misery to happiness. No-one wants to read about a nice pint in Pontypool; they want woe in Watford and micro madness in Margate. So here’s rage from Radnage. Or woe in Wycombe if you like to dump places in their nearest big town… Continue reading A RADNAGE RIOT
NEVER MIND THE KEG !
I’m sorry to do this to you, but I have no say what goes in the Beer Guide. So here’s the KEG Craft Beer Tasting Bar, putting Bourne End on the map for the first time since 1951, when Stanley Spencer painted the beer festival at the Bounty from across the Thames. In fact… Continue reading NEVER MIND THE KEG !
“WILL YOU BE DINING WITH US, SIR ?”
Earlier this month I gave my regular squeal of anguish from a pub that should have been opened but wasn’t. Some people would have given the Stag in Mentmore up as a bad job, but us Guide tickers don’t have that luxury. And, following our intensive training at GBG Base Camp*, we’re all prepared… Continue reading “WILL YOU BE DINING WITH US, SIR ?”
FROTH ON THE BEER
When I confidently called the completion of the Bucks section of the GBG last week I was, I’m sorry to say, premature. GBG completists as great as Duncan and Simon will be familiar with the horror of an Erroneous Tick, in this case due to the belief that Penn was a suburb of Tylers Green,… Continue reading FROTH ON THE BEER
ALL BUCKED UP
(Adjective – indicating completion of Buckinghamshire Good Beer Guide entries) Following the Good Beer Guide, rather than the advice of a mate as to the best pubs, certainly takes you on some lesser travelled roads. GBG17 provides a rare excuse to visit the unknown land between Milton Keynes and Northampton. No, not Newport Pagnell, that’s… Continue reading ALL BUCKED UP
XT4 & WAKES IN AYLESBURY
Aylesbury isn’t all bad. The King’s Head was one of my Top 100 pubs, after all, and there’s some pleasant (damned with faint praise) villages on the bus ride up to Winslow. I’m sure Simon will appreciate the misericords and basilicas in the parish church at Oving, whose Black Boy was benefitting from a wake… Continue reading XT4 & WAKES IN AYLESBURY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MILTON KEYNES
There’ll never be a better day to be nice to Milton Keynes, will there ? Early on in this blog I did a short piece summing up the place (here). As I said then; “People who live there defend their town vigorously, which I admire” I used to work with folk who were uprooted from… Continue reading HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MILTON KEYNES
THE GRAND UNION CANAL – THE AYLESBURY ARM
I used to dread trips into the Chilterns to see my Grandparents as a child. If only I’d been able to visit the pubs along the Grand Union as an 11-year old for pre-emptive ticks, I’m sure I’d have had more fun than the trips to Ashridge Monument or Dunstable Co-op for Golden Nuggets. Peter Allen’s… Continue reading THE GRAND UNION CANAL – THE AYLESBURY ARM
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