Indeed....

Some IPAs are however Best bitter, those between 4.2% ABV and 4.7% ABV.
Best of course being a strength, not a quality.
But you knew that.


People who go into a pub and order a pint of Best bitter often are just saying it thinking it means finest ... and it doesn't.

... and why I deliberately used the phrase 'not what I would call a Best' even though I know others may / will.

As a CAMRA man, I never doubted you ... I just thought I might educate the masses.

You should ... and you have.

Paid my first visit to Cask Corner Dive Bar yesterday, very enjoyable indeed had a Mature Toad, Hung parliament and Charlies Angel. With the first of the three being my favourite

The Mature Toad is very nice. If you like that you'll probaly enjoy Tadpole too.

He might get legless on Tadpole.

I'll tee 'em up ... you hit 'em!

Sampled the Pivni house ale brewed by Thornbridge yesterday at the World Beer Freehouse in York and also a pint of Wadworth 6x in the Punch Bowl (the one opposite the Yorkshire Terrier - as opposed to the Wetherspoons house).

Burton Bridge Damson Porter 4.5%
Northumberland Brown Ale 4.6%
Ilkley Best 4.0%
Raw JR Best 4.2%
all sampled in Cask Corner last night along with yet another pint of Mature Toad.

I read that the Toad Brewery were hoping to open to the public and sell ale on match days ... sometime in the future.
That would be Rovers match days I presume.

They also get their water from their own borehole.

Correct.

Visited the Black Lion at Firbeck yesterday. The owner bought the pub from Punch Taverns last year and it shows. Five ales on of which two were from microbreweries and some stonkingly good fare to boot. Pub was full on a Wednesday evening, which says something when they're out in the sticks. Both beers I had were in good form, Bryson's Hurricane Bitter and Westgate ( Greene King ) Bonkers Conkers.

I note that the entries for Doncaster town centre in the 2011 Good Beer Guide remain the same as for 2010;

Corner Pin
Gatehouse
Plough
Red Lion
Salutation
Tut 'n' Shive

Good to see the Toad Brewery in there.

Tried the latest offering from the Toad Brewery in Cask Corner at the Weekend. The Da Vinci Toad 5.5% and very nice it is too.

Da Vinci Toad ... I ask you?
If they want crap names like that ... they only have to ask.

I Toad You So
Here Toad A, Gone Tomorrow
etc

And for the strong stuff:

Hardcore Spawn

Some toads:-
Fowler Toad, Common Toad, American Toad, Fire-Bellied Toad, and Barn Toad.

Can't see the first two being a hit ... but Fire-Bellied Toad looks perfect for a brew.

Been to Huntingdon and Cambridge ... thank goodness there are two Wetherspoons in Cambridge to at least aleviate the gloom of high prices and lifeless beer.
I got fed up of asking folk to try to put a head on the beer and supped lager instead ... hopeless.

However we stopped at Oakham (Rutland) on the way back and called in the Wheatsheaf near the Church and the posh Oakham independent school (Annual fees range from £13,560 to £25,050) and had two of the best pints of properly conditioned ale ... Everards Tiger (4.2%ABV) ... simply superb, particularly after all the shoite I'd had served up farther south.

Caledonian Autumn Red 4.4% (in the Beverley) ... beautiful!

Next JD Wetherspoons Real Ale Festival ... Wednesday 27 October to Sunday 14 November 2010.

Has anyone ever ben in The Railway?

I'm looking for a pub with a room I can use for about 20-odd people

I'm not sure they would like twenty odd people.

Good point!

We have a games day each year, basically an excuse for boozing hidden behind a thin veil of competition. Used to have it at The Fitzwilliam Arms until someone got macheted and it shut. Last year was the the trades and labour club but they cant get us in this year. Just after a town centre-ish pub with a room we can have to ourselves

Used to venture in from work and have used the room to the left of the bar for meetings on occasion. Would be ok for 20 people (although I might change my mind once I find out what games you play) - it's basicly an old-style 'snug'.