Had some cracking beers on my mini pub crawl last night - African Queen, Electric Landlady and For Fox Sake!!!
Met my son for a few beers and a bite to eat at the Wig and Pen yesterday evening. When I got there at 7pm, there were hardly any tables left outside with people stopping for a beer (glass of wine for the ladies) on their way home. Really good selection of beers including one of my favourite's - Bishop's Farewell. The food was really good too.
Yes, I know it's a beer thread, but having worked in the trade I 'encountered' this crap. And was asked for Wincarnis, Mad dog 20/20, Thunderbird (have you got any like red, I 'ate that blue one, like) along the way. Good old retail
Oh Thunderbird, you nasty nasty stain on my memory. I did a bit of research and discovered some cracking reviews here: http://www.drinksupermarket.com/thunderbird-american-grape-wine-75cl Also that "Gallo salesmen deposited Thunderbird empties in the streets of skid-row neighborhoods, to build brand awareness among the wino population." http://www.drunkard.com/whats-the-word-thunderbird/ Cracking!
Woodfordes Reedlighter ale now to be brewed permanently, rather than as a three month guest beer https://www.woodfordes.co.uk/blog/Reedlighter_permanent_brew/
Apparently, this year's CoA was the best yet - http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/beer_ex...e_more_interesting_than_oktoberfest_1_4576018
It was a new article and really shows how well organised it was and gets better each year. I see from next year and for the a further two years, we're staging the winter CAMRA festival as well. Edit - I have a spare ticket for the pub tour of Norwich Cathedral quarter starting at 11.30 this Saturday. Please message me if interested - it's free!!!
Looking forward to trying this new ale - https://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/n...expect-drinkers-to-be-keen-on-new-mustard-ale, as most of the CHB beers 'Don't impress me much!!!' - Apologies to Shania Twain!!!
I now live near Nice most of the year and as our house has no broadband connection my visits to not606 are now infrequent. Obviously I have also had to give up my season ticket. When I last contributed to this thread in March I was in a bar in Nice where I can get on the internet and we were discussing Pub closures. I did not have to hand 2 old books I own on Pubs in Norwich but I am now back in the UK temporarily and have access to those books. One, written in 1951, gives a detailed history on the subject and contains some incredible facts - did you know that in 1871 the area now covered by the John Lewis store and surrounding pavement contained 38 Pubs and Ale-Houses? Of more interest to me was the book written in 1970 containing, amongst other things, some suggested Pub runs. One was called the Hall Road/Ber Street run - an area in which I lived at that time. It suggested starting at the Tuckswood Pub and the rest were the Cricketers( Linley St ), the Morning Star, the Roebuck, Cherry Tree, Kings Arms, Freemasons, Cricketers(Hall Rd), New Inn, Pheasant Cock, Ber Street Gates, Dart, Jolly Butchers and finishing at the Thorn. 14 Pubs and 45 years later only 2 remain open. In actual fact there was also another Pub down a little lane opposite the Roebuck - behind Scarles Yard Car Park which is also long closed - the name of the Pub escapes me. Food for thought for those who care about these things.
Interesting stuff 1950. Used to use many of these at one time. The old pub is possibly The Crown in Goldwell road?
I remember that too, tiny corner pub just off Southwell Rd? Used to be a stopover between the Kings Arms on Hall Rd and the Trafford, my 'local' at the time
