A Quick Pre Cinema Pint In Burton

I know how you enjoy my angst spending ages minutes agonising about blogpost titles so, this time, it does what it says on the tin. There’s an Ale Trail in Burton during the first weekend in September with around 14 /15 pubs taking part, which promises to be an extravaganza of beer. The home of…

Solid Estate Pubs #3: The Lamb Inn

The Euros are nearly with us you know… This means wall to wall live games in pubs once again and local boozers do it as well as anyone whilst offering a four pint pitcher of Carlsberg for £8. (it’s coming home…) One of the perks of pub blogging is filling in the gaps and, as…

Bass Is Back, Bass Is Back, ‘Allo…’Allo

Boozers are back; Bass is back; And grown men with tattoos calling you Duck after you buy a pint to prove that #publife in Derbyshire is slowly returning. That terrace chant from the seventies and eighties would have been booming out from the beer garden if I had my way when I visited 624 –…

660 Pints Of Bass

I’ve just had a mate from Hereford posting me a picture of him sitting with a pint and a ‘substantial meal!’ Of course, he also sent me the caveat that he won’t need a meal soon as life reverts back to a bit of normal in at least one county in the UK in the…