Beer-related travel, at home and abroad, exploring and indulging my passion for beer. Wednesday, 14 March 2018. Waiting for the white smoke. Well rather like waiting for a decision from the College of Cardinals. Committee as to the winner of the Pub of the Year,.

A blog about travels to European destinations and visits to beer festivals, pubs, bars and breweries. It was an honour to be invited by Martin to join an Oxford pub crawl on Saturday 24 February, 2018 which would include pubs on the map. On Twitter regularly updates his retiredmartin.

Recording the slow, sad death of the British pub. The Bull, Spalding, Lincolnshire. A modern pub, formerly owned by Home Brewery of Nottingham, on the east bank of the River Welland close to the town centre. Sunday, March 04, 2018. The Shakespeare, Southport, Lancashire. A substantial free-standing Victorian pub dominating a road junction on the east side of the town centre. Sunday, February 11, 2018. The Oakdale, Poole, Dorset. Thursday, February 01, 2018.

Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Asking for tasters of beer is an affectation that is of little real value to the customer. In spending vast sums on refurbishments, are pub operators chasing their own tail? March 02, 2018. Returning defective beer to the bar can all too easily become a minefield.

A site where a man with far too much interest in beer gets to write about it. Saturday, 24 March 2018. A visit to gin lane. Yesterday had a rare departure from Beer Street and Visited Gin Lane. Copper is important in distillation as it removes sulphur character. For the vodka they make. Orris root is said to act as a fixative for flavours and is hig.

Another two new entries this year.

A jaundiced view of life from the darkest recess of the saloon bar. Monday, 10 August 2015. This blog, like many others, is written under a nom de guerre. As is my Twitter account. The other day, I tweeted a link to this blogpost. And quoted my real name. Much the same is true of bloggers such as Tandleman, Tyson and Boak and Bailey. It is quite clear that I am a real, rooted person, not some anonymous troll.

Wednesday, 29 July 2015. On our next visit we decided to explore a bit more and one of the pubs we found was the Prince of Wales. This was on the evening of Friday 31st August 2007. As I recall it was a fairly standard back street boozer. This was on the evening of Saturday 19th April 2014.

Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Another Thing the Pub is Best For. Monday, 27 July 2015. Do We Like That One? The nice people at Ald.

4 at Telford Bus Station -.