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Cromercanary said:
Not my scene particularly - I shudder at the prospect of £7-8 a pint, but the 'craft' beer webberlution is rife in all parts of Europe. Ljubljana has several breweries of it's own, for example.
And the whole thing is ongoing, not just for ten (10) days a year <grr>
That aside, I just had a divine pint of Buffy's Norwegian Blue (4.9%) in the Red Lion.
Gimme a trad ale any time <ok> <cheers>
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£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!
 
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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!! <cheers>
 
I was drinking Greene King IPA at the Oval Cricket Ground yesterday at £8 a pint! <yikes> 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!!!
 
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!!
 
Cromercanary said:
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.
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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!
 
JM Fan said:
Or a Beer Festival, Winter Ale Festival (but with a different name for the next 2 years), Virgin Wine Tasting and I think it's 3 'Oktoberfests' (but only one of them is actually in October!!!)
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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,
 
goldeneadie said:
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,
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You do get some VERY attractive ladies there - no comment as to whether or not any of them virgins!!!!
 
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