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 !!







Sunday, 23 November 2014

Earl of Lichfield

Years of experience have taught me that properly lining your stomach before you go on a drinking session is absolutely the right thing to do, so I thought my brunch of omelette and baked beans at eleven o'clock would see me all right in Lichfield....it didn't !!

My memory of the last two pubs of our Lichfield pub crawl, the Earl of Lichfield and The Greyhound, is sketchy to say the least. The fact that I made no notes for my blog in either venue means that the write up for both places maybe as lacking in information as some of my O level examination answers !!

The one thing that I can be certain of is who was in the Earl of Lichfield, myself, Shelley and our mates, Gray, Jule, Val and Paul. The reason I am so confident is that I've got photographic evidence to prove it..  




Okay, the photo is not quite up to the standard of Thomas Patrick John Anson the fifth Earl of Lichfield (Patrick Lichfield to you and I) but I can't imagine that he took too many snaps after consuming a large amount of real ale in the city !!

I've subsequently gone on line to see if there is anything that might jog my memory about my visit however, other than a bloke from Wolverhampton saying that salad that his wife ate in there contained a rather unwelcome addition of a long dark hair (she can thank her lucky stars that it wasn't a shorter one !!), I could find virtually nothing.

Please accept my sincere apologies for the brevity of this post !!

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