Pub number two on my cruise down the Lichfield Street strip was The Boot Inn..
Sorry about all the selfies !!
Now I'm a bit of a stickler for detail and, whilst there may be a few punctuation and grammatical errors contained in this blog, there is surely nothing as glaringly obvious as the vegetable misspelling on the board outside the pub...
When I walked inside though I realised that I was maybe being a bit unfair, the owner had quite clearly got learning difficulties, there was a large ast*n v*lla crest at the end of the bar !! Aaaah, bless it's a shame, and cruel to poke fun of those less fortunate.
There was a choice of three real ales, the rarely seen Bass, a beer called Dog's B*llocks and Andams Lighthouse. I went for the latter but I thought that the barman had got my order wrong, it tasted like choice number two, the canine's private parts, well, what I imagine them to taste like anyway !! It was a truly awful pint. I'd rather have eaten a raw onoin !! Sorry, I must stop mocking the afflicted.
This was a dreadful pub visit, a couple at the bar with a child 'entertained' the room with tunes from their mobile phone, well, when I say tunes technically it was only one song, Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus, it didn't inspire me to start twerking !!
They then proceeded to confuse the poor infant by recounting tales of when they used to get cassette tapes chewed up by their Walkmans which they then had to unravel with a pen. She just smiled at them in a patronising way.
I then spotted a man, who I believed to be the landlord, wearing a Santa hat with flashing lights, this was the sign I needed for me to make a bolt for the door though I was nearly cut up by an old man on a mobility scooter who was obviously also in a hurry to leave the place. 'Night night Roadrunner' was the farewell shout from the locals to the gentleman in question !!
Remind me NEVER to return to this pub.
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 !!
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 !!
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