That's not good news. It's relatively close to me and having a place you can get to easily and get excellent freshly poured beer to take home will be a real loss.
Cheers for that CR. This was a welcome surprise:
And I love the Evening Star beer boards. I enjoyed the Brighton Beer Dispensary when we went there before a match last season.
Wellington tonight. Great band - something Chouder - but great fun. Properly busy - south downs ale and otley croeso then another one. All quality beer and quality music - and some quality bar billiards! ;:
We went to the Wandering Goose before going to the cinema the other week. A quality pub. I could spend a long time looking at the bottled beer on offer. We tried to go back in afterwards and it was heaving. One thing that was noticable is that it was really noisy.
I also find that the glass is almost as important in my enjoyment as the beer. It sounds daft - but the Belgians have it sussed with apparently a glass for every beer. If I have made an effort with my beer purchase I feel it deserves a decent glass.
Cheers for that Mr Q. I am genuinely confused by the term "craft" but if it means an innovative, quality, tasty beer then I understand. I love the new pubs and different breweries and beers. We are living in a golden age for beer that is for sure.
I don't get wound up. I am just a tad bewildered. Are Harveys craft brewers ? Are Dark Star ? And if so are they craft for their best selling brews, where they copy the style of other breweries, or is it just when they produce a smaller run (like the one they have just done with the Saltaire...