14th April 2023. The last pub from the Big Brum Bender (aka curated Birmingham beer exploratory), as we called it quits after seven eight pubs at the crafty Rock and Roll Brewhouse. It’s the rule on these Proper Pub Days Out that everyone does ALL the pubs, unless it’s a shisha bar selling Jamaican tonic… Continue reading ROCK & ROLL, YEAH !
Tag: Jewellery Quarter
CURRY LADS IN THE HEN & CHICKENS
14th April 2023. The Bucolic Brum Bender continued into the Jewellery Quarter, and a genuine pre-emptive tick at the Hen & Chickens. Despite the rain, I joined Kentish Paul in a leisurely pace that allowed us to take in the beauty of the industrial quarter, which features a “Top 500 trees growing out of buildings”… Continue reading CURRY LADS IN THE HEN & CHICKENS
A JEWEL IN THE JEWELLERY QUARTER
Only one more post then it’s the big trip to Aberdeen, which is more than a succession of Brew Dogs. The Jewellers Arms has generous opening hours, but being a few minutes from Burning Soul, which doesn’t, I’d been saving it up. I didn’t have high expectations, having had my share of disappointments with Black… Continue reading A JEWEL IN THE JEWELLERY QUARTER
BRUMMIN’
The train from Stechford to Brum drops you in the centre of “New” New Street Station, an unfortunate place to be dropped. For the third time in a row I failed to find the exit, wandering aimlessly past Leon’s and Five Guys and Prets before emerging blinking in Chinatown. So the half hour I’d allowed… Continue reading BRUMMIN’
THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE
So England missed their big chance to be humiliated by France, what they call “Le blessing en disguis“. I was too tired to watch it with the Beer and Pub “lads”, and my BLOC room is windowless so I actually fell asleep in the second half. Just before the final whistle I rushed across to… Continue reading THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE
BRUMMING WITH CONFIDENCE
Yes, it’s Jimmy the Hoover on the front cover of Smash Hits from 1983. How low can this blog go, you ask ? Answer – very low. I left a group of imbibers enjoying lunch in a busy Old Contemptibles, heading back to the Jewellery Quarter to tick two more Guide new entries. A couple of very modern… Continue reading BRUMMING WITH CONFIDENCE
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