12volts said:
OK, I doubt that many of you have heard of the New Inn at Cropton. It's a pub in the truest sense, it's for people who enjoy a drink and conversation with others. No f*****g duke boxes, musak, and no fruit machines or soup in the basket. The great delight of this place, is the macro brewery they have behind the pub.
The number of beers change regularly, but they are all very good. I've not seen the beers away from the pub, so I don't know if they travel well, however, if you are near Nr. Pickering...
The landlord had the distinction of being the only bloke who ever asked me if I was old enough to drink - and served me anyway! (That's going back to 1974!) At the time, as with a few pubs on the North York Moors, Theakston's Old Peculier was served from a small wooden cask mounted on the bar. Bar temperature and lethal - the landlord would sell a maximum of two pints of it to anybody who wasn't a regular (note - small "r"
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Theakston's Old Peculier, especially if from a small wooden cask on the bar.
Timothy Taylors Landlord (thanks for the introduction to it, bro-in-law).
Tetley's (hand-pumped) Mild.
Tsingtao (even though I realise that it's just Carlsberg).
Cameron's Bitter (for some reason, the electric is better than the hand-pumped).
Dog (i.e. Newcastle Brown Ale) - but only if you pour it from a great height into a pint glass to get rid of the gas - sorry Geordies with your strange way of drinking it. If you don't do this, you explode halfway down the third bottle.
I feel ashamed to admit this, but I also developed a taste for Ward's Bitter (I believe the brewery doesn't exist any more). The first dozen or so times I tried it, I detested it. But as a Ward's pub was the only pub for miles when I was a student, I persevered. Then, suddenly, it wasn't too bad. Gradually, it became the best beer in Sheffield, even when there was a choice. I ended up making a weekly call into the brewery to collect a four and a half gallon polypin....