I know they’re not really Magic, and there’s no Rocks, but when the wee fellah floating round in my glass started whispering things like, No more Cannonball Rich, No more Cannonball!’ I […]
The Black Swan Pickering via Istanbul!
The second surprise Mr Stredwick pulled out of his bag on his Brewtown Tours adventure to Malton and Pickering was The Black Swan Inn, Pickering. Okay, we’ve all been to characterful seventeenth […]
A Bad Seed of an Idea! Cask, Keg & CAMRA and why we are still listening to Prog Rock?
It’s often puzzled me how brewers arrive at some of their brewery, and beer, names? Stood at a small bar on the mezzanine floor above Bad Seed Brewery, sipping a glass of Bad […]
The New Inn & Cropton Brewery
For a little pub in the middle of nowhere, the sizeable car park was exceptionally busy, even for Saturday lunch time. Walking into the warm glow of the bar, there was hardly […]
No Bloody Swearing!
When I started seeing references to Sam Smith’s latest edict on Twitter, I thought it was some sort of a wind up. We’ve had ‘No Swearing Gentlemen Please’ signs in the lounge […]
It’s a Sam’s pub Jim, but not as we know it! – The Admiral Hawke, Boston Spa.
Sam Smith’s might take a while between renovations of their pubs, but when they do it, they do it right! No one can deny the fit outs, usually completed by Worrall’s of […]
The Golden Ball, Scarbro’
I don’t think I’ve blogged about a Sam Smith’s pub before. Not for any particular reason, there’s nothing wrong with their no frills, no nonsense, bargain basement priced, traditional sort of old […]
Brass Castle Taphouse
If Malton were a murky metropolis, then Brass Castle would reside beneath a rumbling railway arch in the midst of a grimy area of, soon to be uplifted, urban desolation. Malton however, is a pleasant, […]
Day 22 – Yorkshire Yankee
If this Advent Calendar were a game of snap, playing against Beer Hawk, then I wouldn’t be winning very often! The good people commenting on the daily Beer Hawk YouTube Video are enjoying a […]
FUBAR by Tiny Rebel made in North Yorkshire Brewery? Advent Calendar Day 4.
Many people will disagree with this, but I don’t think Tiny Rebel are a craft brewer. Definitely a very, very good brewer, whose products I very much enjoy, but not craft beer. […]