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 !!







Friday, 30 May 2014

Jacks

We decided to start Thursday night off with a few beers at the fabulous Benalmadena Marina. We had been given a couple of recommendations for the best bar in that area, our mate Andy (who I know from both Blues and Warwickshire) told us of a bar called Jacks, whereas we saw a promotional leaflet telling us that The Ice Bar is the 'coolest place in Spain' according to Kerry Katona......we followed Andy's advice !!

Jacks is an American brasserie and we were lucky enough to bag a front table on the upstairs terrace which offered us ringside seats to a great view overlooking the marina. A marina which in 2013 was given the title of being the best marina in the world.



Naturally such a setting comes at a price but my bottle of Corona (Coronita in Spain) was €3.95 so nothing too ridiculous.

Though we used Jacks as a bar it is primarily an eating venue and I thought that the waitress with a name tag indicating that her name was Trainee showed tremendous restraint when taking an order from a fussy woman sat by us. She wanted to know the exact ingredients of the sauce that accompanied the chicken and then made a diva like demand that her apple juice was served at room temperature and not chilled. It was like being back stage at a Maria Carey concert !!

I wanted to ask for my lime to be inserted exactly one and a half centimetres into my bottle of Corona when I ordered bottle number two !!

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