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 !!







Thursday, 28 August 2014

Elizabeth of York

It was T20 finals day at Edgbaston and me and my mate Kap had got tickets to see the Birmingham Bears (aka Warwickshire) in action. The format of the day was that there were two semi finals (with the first commencing at 11am) before the final on the evening.

First up was Warwickshire v Surrey. Kap had sorted out the tickets and inexplicably got us seats in the family stand, the one in which alcohol was prohibited, though to be fair, seeing as I was still feeling delicate from giving Shelley's Dad Mick a proper send off the day before, it was actually probably a blessing !!

I hadn't had a beer with Kap for a while though I was half tempted to alert the Operation Yewtree authorities when I discovered that not only were we sat in the family stand, he'd actually turned up with a bag of sweets !!

The Birmingham Bears easily saw off semi final opponents Surrey so, seeing as we were drink free, and the final didn't start until 6.45pm, we decided to give Lancashire v Hampshire a miss and get the bus the short distance to neighbouring Moseley.

Our first destination was Wetherspoons pub the Elizabeth of York. As a pub it is fairly unremarkable but it was convenient and cheap which seeing as it was my round was not a bad thing !! I was feeling a bit more like beer by this stage so it was Ruddles Best Bitter for me....



...and Carling for Kap though this got lost in translation (so I claimed) and he ended up with cheaper lager alternative Carlsberg.

We showed previously undemonstrated sensible thinking by ordering food with our next round. A burger at the cricket was £5.50 but burger, chips and a pint at the Elizabeth of York was £5.99. Howzat for a good deal?!!

Shelley, her brother Craig and sister in law Maria joined us for a few pints. The pub was stop off number one on their planned Moseley pub crawl with the Prince of Wales being one of their proposed venues at the request of Welsh born Maria. The fact that Maria is from Wales was not lost on Kap who proceeded to give her some stick for this fact. I wouldn't mind but it was the first time that he'd met her !!

We saw off our beers and had time for a drink at their next pub (The Fighting Cocks) before heading back to the cricket and hopefully cheering on the Bears to T20 final victory.



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