Beer-aeth

Plenty of 'craft beer bars' *eurgh...* have opened in vacant retail units or gentrified market halls. I'm sure that I'll write about many more, good and bad. I'm not sure however, many have opened in derelict Victorian lean-tos on inauspicious gyratories of provincial Welsh market towns which are the polar opposite of gentrified. I would guess few. Being somewhat au fait with the locale, I am sure the building in question has been out of use for at least thirty years, and was probably in its heyday at roughly the same time that the canal was. I assume that the name wasn't plucked out of the ether, and that this was indeed a bakery in the olden times, but for everybody in Pool barring the most ancient it has always been a boarded up red brick abutment which has drawn the eye of absolutely nobody. How it used to look I'm pleased to say that things have changed. Actually, I'm not pleased to say that. It;s a lot more fun to slag off places, but this is due t...

It's been a while, but here's the rub. I only come to learn of things that pubs are doing wrong by going to shit pubs. This is something I try my hardest to avoid. Money is tight and life is short. I prefer to spend my time and money in fantastic pubs that are doing little wrong (I type this from The Snowdrop in Lewes) and therefore examples of terrible pub etiquette will become scarce. But, I am pleased to say that since my last update I have been dragged against my will to hostelries that have done nothing to prevent stoking my ire - a pub I went to in Vienna last summer might be an all time low - and at least we can learn something. 21. What are you supposed to do about that loud, overbearing, tedious cunt with no self-awareness? Have a word. They are probably ruining your pub for some people. If they take offence and never return, your patronage might improve! 22. Toilet ratio. This has always been an issue, but is especially pronounced in the new 'Craft Bee...