I hadn't been in the pub for a while in fact it has undergone a name change since my last visit when it was known as The Varsity. In all honesty little seemed to have altered since the change of name, it is still a pub frequented mainly by Harborne's large student population but it is definitely a pub worthy of a pint during a visit to the suburb.
The selection of ales was certainly better than I remembered with Wye Valley HPA being my drink of choice and Shelley being slightly disappointed with her solitary option of just Strongbow cider. It's not that she doesn't like Strongbow it's just that Shelley (and many of her cider drinking chums) feel that there is better cider to be had these days with both Aspall and Stowford Press falling into that category.
It was still relatively early meaning the place was pretty dead so we found a pitch at the back of the pub next to the special needs lift. It seemed appropriate seeing as were staying in a special needs room in our hotel later that night !!
Being as Harborne is pretty near to my work base of Five Ways there was always a chance that we'd bump into someone we knew and that was indeed the case when we saw my work colleagues Lisa, Deelam and Denise out on a post work night out.
We only stopped for one in The Proverbial as we were keen to explore as many pubs on the Harborne strip as we could being as it had been a long time since either of us had last visited the area.
Next venue The White Horse...
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