The Vine has closed unexpectedly. This is quite surprising, as the pub was undergoing decoration and has just had a brand new sign erected outside. It is also a great shame, as apart from being a cracking boozer, it also sold consistently excellent quality beer.
There is a sign on the door that reads: [...]
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I have just returned from a visit to the site of a new brewery in our LocAle area. The yet-to-be named brewery is being set up by Rob Neil of Maypole Brewery and his business partner, Gary Hobbs.
The brewery is to be situated in the old dog kennels building which is [...]
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Springhead have just gone through a re-branding exercise. I spotted their new pump clips a couple of nights ago.
I must say they look a bit cheap-and-cheerful compared to the old, heavy, 3D porcelain ones but I do like the fact that a short beer description is on the clip. Interested to hear your [...]
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I nipped out for a couple around Balderton on Christmas Day lunchtime. Firstly to The Grove where everyone was shoehorned into the bar; it looked like the lounge was set aside for the occasional diner. The usual National Blands were on offer, Spitfire and London Pride, OK nick but with collars that would have put [...]
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I was dragged into the Old White Hart last night for a Christmas social and meal. The food was very nice as it happens, albeit in micro-portions, but I was disappointed to find the single hand pump on the bar standing redundant. I asked the young chap behind the bar if he sold anything resembling [...]
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Yes, they’ve really gone and done it!
Those of you that attend the Newark Beer Festival, couldn’t help but to have noticed a group of people who secrete themselves into a corner, acquire several tables on which to spread out their paperwork and then proceed to sample as many beers as they can, [...]
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Well, I was wrong about the Blighty TV series, ‘Save our Boozer’. It featured three, not five, different pubs struggling to survive. Although all three were taken on by the local community, each had different problems which were tackled in different ways.
I particularly enoyed the second programme which featured the Greyhound. They organised a [...]
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There’s a Maypole Brewery night at The Olde Red Lion, Wellow this Saturday (12th). It starts at 5pm and the beers on offer are
Olde Lions Ale 3.9%, Gate Hopper 4.0% and Major Oak 4.4% on handpump, Butt Warmer 4.5% and a.n.other (tbc) in pins.
Stu.
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They Liked a Pint – by Harry Constantine
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