The building looks like it’s been transported from one of those new build, just outside town, on a roundabout, got a Premier Inn, Service Station and a Restaurant pub type of places. […]
Brewhouse and Kitchen, Dorchester
Tom Brown’s Dorchester
I got quite excited when I was told this was a Dorset Brewing Company tap house. I’ve had their beers before in Weymouth and enjoyed them. After the impeccably well kept The Blue […]
A Convivial Rabbit?
The signposting to this micropub is pretty comprehensive. Even then I walked straight past the top of the ginnel, despite the sign. For some reason I’d got it in my head it […]
The Blue Raddle?
So. What’s a Blue Raddle when it’s at home? The pub’s web site is as good a place as any to answer this. Decent little website too. The presence of sheepabilia all […]
Dorchester and The Royal Oak
Nothing special about the carpet in this Wetherspoons is there? I mean it’s not a bad carpet, and it would probably look better if it wasn’t so gloomy inside, it just wouldn’t […]
The Pursuit of Hoppiness in Bridport
Not like you to walk past a beer bar Dad! Where? There! Bridport? A Micropub? There never used to be one, but there is now, sat bold as brass on East St, […]
Cellar 59, Lyme Regis
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 […]
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 […]
