The first time I encountered Gyle 59’s beer was last summer (2015), in The Tiger Inn, Bridport, a place I spend quite a bit of time in during our annual pilgrimage to […]
Cellar 59, Lyme Regis
The Lyme Regis Brewery
Glasses of fine ale, blue sky, warm sun, sitting in a cobbled courtyard outside a brewery … doesn’t get much better does it? The Pearl of Dorset is a lovely little place, […]
The Royal Oak, Weymouth
The second Weymouth boozer I visited was The Royal Oak on Custom House Quay. I remembered it from previous visits as the one with the sawdust on the floor. Unfortunately it’s now […]
The Globe, Weymouth
No visit to Dorset is complete without a visit to the sea side gem that is Weymouth, a town of three thirds; a lovely sweeping beach and promenade with Georgian esplanades and […]
The Ropemakers, Bridport, Dorset.
This would be the best pub in Bridport, if it wasn’t a Palmers Brewery tied house. It’s the only pub I’ve been in that has the full range of Palmer’s ales on […]
The Tiger Inn, Bridport.
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, A shining star, in a Palmers night. Six cask ales loom into sight, Doom Bar being the only …? I couldn’t think of a non vulgar, rhyming ending, […]
Palmers Brewery, it’s not really a Broadchurch in West Bay.
For the past six years I’ve spent a few August weeks in Dorset, specifically West Bay, the harbour village for the market town of Bridport. If you’ve never been I would thoroughly […]
