This is a diary, of sorts, NOT a beer blog, as I’ve still no idea what beer is made out of. But for the sake of completeness, and because it makes a nice photo, here’s two pubs selling some of the best beer in Devon. 20 years ago trips to this part of Devon around… Continue reading A PROPER JOB
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THE MEDIUM SHIRAZ TRADE IN OVERTON IS BACK
Last Sunday morning I was planning the journey home from the Premier Inn at Southampton Airport. The journey back looked startlingly straight, and not just on foot; the A34 really is a marvellous road. 40 minutes after leaving Southampton we were parked up in Overton, whose new GBG pub has defeated me a fortnight earlier.… Continue reading THE MEDIUM SHIRAZ TRADE IN OVERTON IS BACK
THE THREE HORSESHOES, ECTON – SURVIVING ON BEER, BANTER AND BAPS
On to Ecton. No, we’d never heard of it either. Excitingly placed between Wellingborough and Northampton, it’s a tiny village somehow managing two pubs, one of them a “contemporary restaurant“. There’s villages three times the size locally that can’t manage one. Ecton is very quiet on Sunday lunchtime, I presume everyone is at Billing Aquadrome, doing… Continue reading THE THREE HORSESHOES, ECTON – SURVIVING ON BEER, BANTER AND BAPS
A CLASSIC STEVENAGE ESTATE PUB
I finally picked up a copy of Boak & Bailey’s 20th Century Pub in Heffers Cambridge on Sunday, displayed alongside another classic publication (which I can’t write about until the 14th). I’m a slow reader, so you may have to wait for anything approaching a review (see here and here for those). Already it’s… Continue reading A CLASSIC STEVENAGE ESTATE PUB
OPEN ALL HOURS – KNAPHILL’S ROYAL OAK DOES A PROPER JOB
Just 17 minutes on the train from Aldershot, central Woking feels a different world. Not always a world I’d want to inhabit, with an athletics centre of a football ground and only a Spoons and a Social Club for Beer Guide company. Type “Woking” into WhatPub and the first places you see are an O’Neill’s, a Slug, a… Continue reading OPEN ALL HOURS – KNAPHILL’S ROYAL OAK DOES A PROPER JOB
POLDARK, PASTIES & PHILLACK
We’ve been visiting a few stragglers in inland Cornwall, on the way to completing the county’s Beer Guide entries before Simon Everitt gets off the mark. I’ve enjoyed the industrial landscape round here as much as the coast. The remains of the tin mines at Porkellis Moor near Helston were particularly attractive, if a bit… Continue reading POLDARK, PASTIES & PHILLACK
PROPER JOB
On my way down to Cornwall I stopped for a walk north of Bodmin, an area I only really know for the famous Blisland Inn, former national pub of the year and home of a friendly lizard when I was last there. Altarnun is just off the A30 but the pace slows as you get… Continue reading PROPER JOB
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