£7-8 for a beer! In Norwich? Where? That overpriced brewdog place? Not even the RofB or Murders are that much! If it is traditional ales you want then City of ale should be precisely your thing. Unless you don't like; walking, visiting lots of pubs, badges, t-shirts and drinking a multitude of different ales? Alas I have not had a drop of anything beery for just over a week because of the gout, almost better now though. Bah!
I only go to a few of the pubs during City of Ale Trail and the most expensive beer I found was just under £5 a pint, but it was 6.2% ABV!!
I seem to recall that the Norwich Tap House on Redwell St, and the Mash Tun on St Benedicts both have beers / ales on sale at up to £7. Scandalous, in my book, but it doesn't seem to deter clientele.
I was drinking Greene King IPA at the Oval Cricket Ground yesterday at £8 a pint! But I guess you expect to pay that in London and especially at an iconic venue. I don't even like IPA that much but it was either that or bloody Carling Lager..Yuk!!!
Another win for Surrey, pretty comprehensive, too. Finch on fire (again ) The televised match between my Essex eagles & Surrey on Friday was as tight a finish as you could wish for - alas Essex missed out by a whisker.
Surrey were cruising and should have won with Overs to spare but they were penalised for a slow Over rate! Somerset were awarded an extra 12 Runs! Ive never come across that before! Somerset have got this Kiwi batter called Anderson who was simply amazing and he nearly won it for Somerset. All in all a very good game and the Oval is just a lovely venue apart from the beer!!
I'm not sure the Tap house has ever been on city of Ale, not during the 3 years i've taken part. I've never been in there to comment on prices. The Mash Tun is as you say overpriced and I'd say gimmicky. Not all of it's beers are that crazily priced, I can't say I have seen that they have them that expensive, but for a bog standard Ale it was about £4 pint as I recall, not cheap and not sure I'd treat it as my local but not crazy £7 priced either. (Just had a look on their web page, and there is a strong beer which they only sell in halves for £3.40, so I guess pretty much £7, but the rest are south of £5. Increasingly this seems to be a city centre effect) Bah!
Former Norwich City and Northern Ireland footballer Philip Mulryne has been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40545129
When are these virgins, hopefully female, going to be tasting the wine? I may have to re-schedule my next trip back to witness this glorious event,
You do get some VERY attractive ladies there - no comment as to whether or not any of them virgins!!!!
The only virgin tasting I have done for a very long time is the Extra virgin Oily sort, nice but.... Bah!
I can't work out how he got up and walked away with just a few bruises, they build them tough in Reading!
