Ah But isn't the Barrow away game on a Friday 7.30 K O.?

While our CAMRA brethren were hiding away in the Tut and the Little Pluff drinking weak beer, I was drinking mester's beer at the Gatehouse.
Wentworth Brewery's Rampant Gryphon at 6.2% abv, a session beer for serious alcoholics like me who want to live the part of a beer-fueled bummer.

A Beer-Fueled-Bummer who now has the advantage of a Bus Pass

Excellent choice too. I bet one or two in Barnsley would not take to kindly for saying BB is not for grown up's

Shush!
I wish I had a video of me walking down the steps from the bar in the sky with a full pint all the way down the concrete steps to my seat on the front row.
Health and safety or what.
Scary.
Another good reason for opening the concourse bar.

I agree but it seems to be strangely cheaper by 20p in the finery of the bar in the sky for the J.S. How and indeed why is this ? does anyone know ?

That's different then

May be in business after all!

It's a good question.
I went to a do in the restaurant in December and John's was cheaper then.
But on the concourse it is the same price as lager.
Dodgy or what.
They're taking for us for mugs, pure and simple.



Don't buy the muck at those prices and make them lower the prices.
But we won't work together.
Typical saddo Britons.
We would stand by and let the s walk all over us before doing something about it.



I've made my mind up now, I will never buy another pint in the Keepmoat, and would urge everybody to do the same until the robbing b@stards bring the price down.

I own up, I was in the Tut before the game - Dr Okells IPA and Old Mill Brewerys Old Curiosity were on this week. I did venture into the Gateshouse after the match but if I'm honest I can't remember what I picked.

Well it might have been Rampant Gryphon if that's the case.

I've had that before and like it. I have a feeling that I tried something I'd not had before but then forgot it's name.

To be fair I was probably on pint number 8 or 9 by then.

Had a nice pint of Courage Directors in the Scarborough at Tickhill on Sunday. I do like that one!

Had a few pints of Leeds Brewery Midnight Bell on Friday night at the Scarboro' Hotel in Leeds after watching the excellent Ian Hunter in concert. Really nice, strong mild at 4.8%.

For those of you who like bottled real ale, and I know it's not to everyone's taste, I happened upon the largest selection I have ever seen at Booth's Supermarket in Knutsford, Cheshire over the weekend, many of them at £1 a bottle.

I came away with 14 different varieties and left at least another 100 different ales on the shelf. Didn't count the number of brewers represented but there must have been at least 50.

It's time they opened one in South Yorkshire



Just noticed tigertots has one near him

Booths in Ilkley is the dogs gonads for bottled beer, like you say plenty at 99p. I tend not to drink beer at home though, but I do tend to sample a chilled pale ale or three in the garden of a summers evening.

Ventured out to The Bay Horse at Great Heck last night having read about it in the Good Beer Guide. Real Ales from The Old Mill Brewery. Pint of Black Jack and a top meal. Winner!

An excellent pint of Adnams Broadside in the Cocked Hat - I always enjoy my visits there. Good banter before the game, talking up the Dons chances of finishing in the top 2 in NL2 and then ... no let's not go there!

Well I don;t care what some others think...was out round Sheffield before the game on Sunday and had a few cracking pints of Abbots

Proper beer.


Had a pint of Jericho in Wetherspoons in Donny (don't know who makes that).
Speckled Hen in the Tut (beautiful).
And a couple of real ales in the Cocked Hat. I didn't take much notice of what they were, but they were excellent.
And then...................

Nothing wrong with Abbot Ale, as you say a cracking pint and excluding one or two seasonal beers it's now the strongest of the Greene King ales at 5% (since the strength of the Cask version of Old Speckled Hen was reduced to 4.5% in 2006).

Looking to Saturday, the Pack Horse is in this years Good Beer Guide and is on the main road out to Headingley from Leeds (A660) Woodhouse Lane (which further on becomes Headingley Lane).

A little nearer to the ground but just beyond it on Otley Road is the Arcadia Ale & Wine Bar which stocks a number of real ales including some from Yorkshire micro-breweries.

Back in the City Centre, the following can be recommended;

North Bar (New Briggate)
Palace (Kirkgate)
Scarbrough Hotel (adjacent to the Railway Station)
Town Hall Tavern (Westgate)
Victoria Family & Commercial (Great George St)
& Whitelocks First City Luncheon Bar (Turks Head Yard, off Briggate).

Last nights jaunt included a visit to the Dog & Gun at East Butterwick which although having a Doncaster postcode is just the other side of the River Trent in north Lincolnshire.

The pub is home to the DarkTribe brewery (yes, there is no space between Dark and Tribe) and available yesterday were Sternwhistler (a golden ale) and Red Rock (a dark ale).

If you're out that way, access is via the east end of Keadby Bridge (where East Butterwick is signposted).

Also worth a visit only a further 10 or 15 minutes away is the House Inn at East Ferry. Real Ale, good quality food at a reasonable price and a rock jukebox.

Excellent places, Arcadia is part of the Market Taverns chain of qulaity pubs that were smoke free for the last few years. It's not a traditional pub though, a bit soulless, but great beer & good food. I would also recommend the Prince of Wales, just round the corner from the Scarbrough. Full of mature rugby fans on a match day & much improved since the smoking ban.

I hope to be taking in a few on Saturday.

Ah Dixie Dean's beers! ( Dark Tribe). Sampled many of his offerings at the Eight Jolly Brewers in Gainsborough en route to my other weakness in life at Sincil Bank.



The EJB is a cracking little place and I guarantee there'll be brews and breweries you've yet to hear about. Another pub close to the Trent an' all.

Looks like I'm going to be visiting East Butterwick and East Ferry shortly too.

Have you tried any pubs in the sticks north of Doncaster yet? A must is the exotically-named Jemmy Hirst at the Rose and Crown, run by two former members of the constabulary, one of whom was also a CAMRA chairperson at her Hampshire Branch. The beers and the general ambience of the place are superb. Log fire, book shelves stacked with old books and the locals talk!

Bit further out still is the Ferry at Cawood, which has a reputation for good food but the beer can give it a run for its money too.