Posts Tagged: Pubs and Tavs
Is This My Kind Of Church For Easter?
Posted by on Saturday, April 11, 2009 in - leave a comment
Lew shall sing. After all, it is Easter. I may drag myself out the door in the morning. You never know about these things. It's been a challenge since my teens. My father used to throw a chocolate egg at my head each Easter before he went off to give the sermon at church service and I continue my …
Beer's Properties Makes For Beer's Profities
Posted by on Monday, April 6, 2009 in - 2 comments
I was quite ready to scoff at today's article in the London Free Press on InBev... or is it AmBev... or maybe now just BevBev's... Canadian operations and their version of a beer school but the point on the economics of properly handling your kegs is interesting: • "In a typical bar, five to 10 …
PGP 5.0: Once There Was A Pub Game In My Town...
Posted by on Monday, March 30, 2009 in - 2 comments
So, aside from the fact that I was not a contestant in the Wellie Boot Chuck and that I walked by the Wellie Boot Chuck to actually go to the pub, I thought the Wellie Boot Chuck at one of my favorite pubs on the planet went rather well. See, I was under the impression that the boot chucking was …
Bring Wine To A Restaurant? Why Not Beer To A Pub?
Posted by on Sunday, March 8, 2009 in - 2 comments
I really like this idea from a nightclub at a hotel in Corby, Northamptonshire. Seems like the trade at The Raven isn't what it used to be: • Customers, however, concerned about spending during the recession, are staying at home and the pub is now on the brink of closure. Just a handful of … read more »
And The Headline Read "Pub To Host Sausage Meet"
Posted by on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 in - 3 comments
I can't decide whether this is better than the Beer and Pie Festival or not that I wrote about almost a year ago. Is it because it is February? Is it because there are those (we go nameless) who consider beer an appropriate vegetable course when in the presence of beer or sausage or BBQ or any …
Paul Visits The Belgian Monk In Norwich, Norfolk
Posted by on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 in - 1 comment
There are a couple of areas in the East of England that resemble Holland landscape-wise. ‘The Fens’ being one, and The Norfolk Broads being the other. In fact the Dutch helped drain and reclaim much land in these regions, evidence of which can still be seen in the shape of long, wide, straight …
The Best Of 2008 From A Good Beer Blog - Part Two
Posted by on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 in - 1 comment
This is my best photo of 2008. I now feel that it is a bit of cheek suggesting I even have a best photo given both the quality that comes through the Yule photo contest as well as the simple fact that I did not take the variety of photos in 2008 that I did in years past. I like the stability of …
Knut Travels To Midtown Manhattan
Posted by on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 in - 1 comment
Sure, it's changed. Yeah, it's the Grumpy Old Man reporting again. I remember once, while we were on our summer holiday in Oslo, that traveling to America meant a voyage on Den Norske Amerikalinje. We were standing on the quay with hundreds of others, waving to my aunt, who was going away for a …
Does Beer Glass Size Really Matter?
Posted by on Sunday, October 26, 2008 in - 9 comments
Years ago in Stirling Scotland I likely got my only true pint of beer. The fluid crested over the glass holding it through the miracle of surface tension and the bartender told me to lean over and take a first draw off the top to avoid losing too much. That was a fine pint. Every other of the …
Next, CAMRA To Blame Social And Economic Equality
Posted by on Sunday, September 14, 2008 in - 5 comments
My folks came out of industrial Scotland a little over fifty years ago now. Even in the 1950s the end was near for the shipyards where at least three generations of we folk had riveted and steering gear fitted their way to a pretty modest level of economic despair. • When their chances came …
