Better late than never! My trip to the UK!

[Elliot]

I agree the Black Friar is rubbish - its my quick pint stop before I take the train home - It smells, the staff are inefficient and its expensive.  So there.

[WezV]

i havnt actually had a pint of landlard in a pub for about 7-8 years so it could be worse than i remember.  I have had the odd bottle of it and thats ok but its never the same anyway

[Ted]

Awesome thread. I work 15 mins walk from that pub and cycle through Blackfriars every day.

I prefer London Pride to Timmy Taylors. Although of late I've developed a bit of a thirst for perry.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Awesome thread. I work 15 mins walk from that pub and cycle through Blackfriars every day.

Thanx, Ted.

There's still lots more to tell, so stay tuned!

[TwilightOdyssey]

Oh, I almost forgot to post this picture, it's my favourite one from that evening.


I don't know how I the camera did it, but it perfectly captured how things actually looked by the end of that evening PDT_008

[Davey]

no no man.. the camera did capture it pretty well... it just shows, how fuzzy our eyesight was hehe.

yea, next morning it was a bit: 'when's the quiet period gonna start?? >.<'

i think after some talk and calculation with phil, we came to the conclusion, that it was in the vicinity of 15 to 17 pints total for you & me. the other lightweights joined, when we had 3 or 4 already down. it all ended with me sleeping in the bathtub at 8 in the morning lol.
when are we doing this again?
 :D

[bucketshred]

My thoughts exactley, when are you doing it again? I cant hold me beer to save me life - but it sounds like a laugh!

I remember meeting Afghan Dave at LGS...thats about it

Andy!

[Brow]

Yeah, count me in for next time too!  :twisted:

[PhilKing]

i havnt actually had a pint of landlard in a pub for about 7-8 years so it could be worse than i remember.  I have had the odd bottle of it and thats ok but its never the same anyway

I guess as you are in the brewing capital of the midlands you don't need to drink anything but local ales (mind you weren't Ind Coope and Bass from Burton on Trent - I seem to remember that it was the home of Double Diamond - the beer that starts off where most beers end up [CAMRA ad]!!!)

[WezV]

ind coope, bass and marstons.  they still brew here but ind coope is now part of the spirt group and bass sold out to coors.

We used to have the 'world famous bass musuem of brewing' - now we have the 'coors visitor centre'.  and instead of every wall in burton having a big red triangle- the first ever trademark and part of our local heritage, coors have replaced them all with their logo... you would think that they could have left the bass logo somehwere since they still make the stuff!!!

Burton bridge is still making stuff for a few pubs though and thats always good.

we have good water here, so good that other breweries 'Burtonise' their water before brewing!!!

we used to have Branston pickle but they have gone elsewhere but we still have marmite because its a by-product of the brewing process.  

Burton smells quite bad somedays and absolutely heavenly on others - but it always smells!!!

[maverickf1jockey]

i havnt actually had a pint of landlard in a pub for about 7-8 years so it could be worse than i remember.  I have had the odd bottle of it and thats ok but its never the same anyway

I guess as you are in the brewing capital of the midlands you don't need to drink anything but local ales (mind you weren't Ind Coope and Bass from Burton on Trent - I seem to remember that it was the home of Double Diamond - the beer that starts off where most beers end up [CAMRA ad]!!!)

The toilet?

[bucketshred]

Anyone here tried Pot Belly ale?

It's made in my hometown and it's great - Crazy Days knocks yer head off.....

...although Made in England was on of their best brews!

[noodleplugerine]

i havnt actually had a pint of landlard in a pub for about 7-8 years so it could be worse than i remember.  I have had the odd bottle of it and thats ok but its never the same anyway

I guess as you are in the brewing capital of the midlands you don't need to drink anything but local ales (mind you weren't Ind Coope and Bass from Burton on Trent - I seem to remember that it was the home of Double Diamond - the beer that starts off where most beers end up [CAMRA ad]!!!)

The toilet?

lmao!

Don't think that's what he meant :p

[PhilKing]

i havnt actually had a pint of landlard in a pub for about 7-8 years so it could be worse than i remember.  I have had the odd bottle of it and thats ok but its never the same anyway

I guess as you are in the brewing capital of the midlands you don't need to drink anything but local ales (mind you weren't Ind Coope and Bass from Burton on Trent - I seem to remember that it was the home of Double Diamond - the beer that starts off where most beers end up [CAMRA ad]!!!)

The toilet?

The original ad was because it was designed to be sold in a can, of course CAMRA made it a urinal!!

[Elliot]

Wasn't Double Diamond made in Romford?  I remember drinking it as a 15 year old - that and London Pride, the curse of which I now wear around my belly.

I also got seriously into the vile Ind Coope Long Life when I was a student (it was always on offer - but I actually got to quite like it.)

My grandfather was a brewer - at the illustrious Suffolk brewery of Greene King - and in honour of his life (he died last year) I invite you all you all to neck a few pints of the venerable and holy Abbot Ale.