Pubs of 2014

Right, here we go...... The purpose of this blog is to log all the pubs that I have visited and consumed an alcoholic beverage in during 2014. The rules are quite simple, the establishment needs to be a public house, it sounds straightforward but it may get complicated for example things that wouldn't count are a visit to the bar at the cricket, a pre gig drink in a concert venue, a drink at the Birmingham German market etc. As judge and jury my decision is final, and if I'm in any doubt I won't count it.



My prediction as at the start of the year is that the final number will be somewhere around the 200 mark though I won't go to pubs just to get the numbers up, it will be a true reflection of my pub visting year.



My posts will include information about the pub, the ambience of the surroundings, the choice and quality of the beer, any interesting or amusing anecdotes about my visit and, where possible, photographic evidence.



I will try and keep the information as accurate as possible noting that alcohol consumption means that at times this may prove difficult !!



The format of the posts is simple, the first visit to the pub will be the blog entry and that post will be updated for any subsequent visit.



Hope you enjoy it...



Cheers

UPDATE January 2015

Right, that's it, it's finally finished, some 259 pubs later !! It's been hard work but it's nice being able to look back and relive the drinking experiences of 2014.

I am pleased with the final result and whilst I've been reviewing it, I have actually laughed a few times at my own jokes !!

A word of warning, it does start off a bit slow (some of my posts from Bath are a bit dull) but stick with it. In hindsight the format of posting repeat visits to a pub on the original post at times doesn't work very well when reading the blog in its' entirety but on the whole I'm pleased with it and I hope that you enjoy it.

I have stated this in the blog but I will say it again, thanks to anyone that I have had a beer with in 2014 and special thanks to Shelley for her patience !!







Saturday, 5 April 2014

The Brewmaster

We made the short journey along London's gold paved streets from previous pub The Prince of Wales to The Brewmaster near Leicester Square tube station. I'd just received confirmation that Blues had suffered yet another defeat so the pub crawl had taken on a sorrow drowning nature for me. In all honesty even though it was late afternoon I knew I'd had a drink, and I must confess I was still feeling the effect of three Bishop Fingers earlier !! Ouch !!

The Brewmaster is a pub Shelley and I regularly visit during our frequent trips to the capital given its convenient location. There is a fairly standard choice of beers but I was pleasantly surprised to see an ale on offer so I opted for the Greene King IPA which wasn't too bad.

We were blessed with some lovely weather so we did our first bit of alfresco drinking that day. Admittedly it was down an alleyway at the back of the pub so it wasn't exactly a room with a view but it did for us that night.



Be warned the loos are up a huge flight of stairs so asthma sufferers may want to cross their legs and wait for the next pub if they are on a pub crawl.

I returned breathless after my hike to the restroom (I think I must have been mixing with too many American tourists !!) only to find Craig mid-story recounting in gory details how he recently unblocked the sewage pipe in his garden...

Time to go...........
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