I hadn’t been to Nottingham in a long while, not so as I could have a wander round and a nice drink anyway. I’ve quite a fondness for the place, having lived […]
Canalhouse, Nottingham
The Cordwainer, Northampton
No visit to a new place is complete without dropping into the local Spoons. This meant calling by for breakfast the next morning, before we set off in the car for pastures […]
The Pomfret Arms, Northampton and notes on Middle England
Unsurprisingly, numbers on the Beer & Pubs Forum tour of Northampton had dwindled a bit by the tenth pub. The reality being that there was only myself, Mrs C (you can just […]
The Malt Shovel Tavern, Northampton
I know things were starting to get a bit jumbled by the ninth pub of the day but I couldn’t believe it when Retired Martin thrust a Wetherspoons ‘CAMRA 50p off a […]
Albion Brewery Bar (aka Phipp’s NBC Brewery tap), Northampton
I didn’t quite know what to make of the Albion Brewery Bar? It’s not a pub in the proper sense of a pub. It’s actually Phipp’s Northampton Brewery Company, tap room and […]
St Giles Ale House, Northampton
Once an antiques shop, now a micro-pub that felt nearer to being a real pub on a busy Saturday afternoon. When I say busy, there were only a dozen and a half […]
Princess Alexandra, Northampton
Just to prove the Beer & Pubs Forum members weren’t adverse to a bit of modernity, nor even a drop of keg beer, we visited the The Princess Alexandra even though it […]
The Black Prince, Northampton
I had high expectations of the sister pub to The Olde England, these vaporised the instant I saw that they only had six beers serving on the eleven hand pumps. Some folk […]
The Lamplighter, Northampton
It felt like we’d been on a bit of a trek when we got here, maybe because the pub before The Olde England, was itself a good walk out of the centre? […]
Cask Conditioned Bitter, in Italy? Orzo Bruno – Pisa.
Last thing I expected to see when I walked into a bar in Italy, an Angrams beer engine and the words ‘Bitter Ale’ emblazoned across the pump clip. Maybe it’s an […]
