Places You Miss
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Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
Fear not Edward, it's just common sense clicking in
Next time you're up North we'll take you for some proper smooth bitters - massive fan of bitter myself.
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
There's a very funny send-up of this in The Brightonomicon, Robert Rankin's last-but-one-or-two novel (set, as the name suggests, in Hoxton-on-Sea), in which a bar regularly changes between being a normal pub, a trendy bar and various kinds of 'theme' bars several times per day.
And to Martin - welcome brother, you're now ONE OF US! You don't have to be middle-aged, I've been a real ale nut since the age of about 16.
Edit: gah, Edward, not Martin! Sorry. You've both got b/w avatars, is my excuse.
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sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
i swear drinking lager every night form a rider makes you want to never touch the stuff again, though i'm now big into my russian stuff, think its called baltika. there was a pub in sheffield where you could get the stuff on tap, the extra strong version of it, 9%! I like theakstons, that's a bitter isn't it? That's because of my dad.
I don't get the smooth bitter thing at all. Does it extend beyond Boddingtons and John Smiths? Is it possible to buy "normal" bitter up north?
I had a pair of bondage kecks when I was 16, I thought they were alright! (though I did get rid of the in-between-the-legs strap which was just pointless) But in Luton they were considered really radical, though you'd sometimes get women in their late 30s asking if you were into Bay City Rollers. They were about a tenner back then, I think?
Children of Vision rings a bell, I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who worked there (the one on the top floor). They used to make some sort of LSD cake, apparently you knew they were tripping when they'd start playing 'Nutbush City Limits' really loud. It was funny cos you'd get dead straight US /German tourists who thought they'd pop in for a quick trim while they were there, and would come out, crying their eyes out, with electric turquoise bob cuts.
Garageland was OK records-wise, do you remember the upstairs (small) record shack with the really MISERABLE woman with dreads?
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
It does yes, the some really good local ones and yeah it's possible to get standard bitter, Black Sheep being one of the best cheap pints going...
IdleRich
IdleRich
Ah, Black Sheep, that reminds me of when I lived in Nottingham, which I suppose brings it neatly back to the places you miss theme. Although I guess it's really the time I miss more than the place, living away from home for the first time, being (more) young and innocent but thinking that I wasn't etc
matt b
Indexing all opinion
'smooth' bitters were/ are an attempt by the corporate brewers to create bitters with the same easy care characteristics of lager, forgetting that bitter has to cask conditioned, looked after by a knowledgeable landlord.
proper bitter is still big round here- just about every town has its own brewery, my favourites being timothy taylor (keighley), whose landlord bitter, when well-kept is a stunning drink and the copper dragon brewery (skipton).
black sheep is very fine and even tetleys can be nice
oh, and i miss this pub:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/citylife/pubs/bowling_green.shtml
proper bitter is still big round here- just about every town has its own brewery, my favourites being timothy taylor (keighley), whose landlord bitter, when well-kept is a stunning drink and the copper dragon brewery (skipton).
black sheep is very fine and even tetleys can be nice
oh, and i miss this pub:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/citylife/pubs/bowling_green.shtml
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STN
sou'wester
Nothing wrong with good lager (Balktika, Okocim, Lech, Freedom, Kastel Kru, Peroni).
Favourite bitters (or are they ales? what's the difference?) are Black Sheep, Landlord, Deuchers and Tribute (from the St Austell Brewery) as well as all the Hall and Woodhouse ones (especially Blandford Fly).
Saying that, I'll drink pretty much anything and was considering a 'Very Strong Booze' thread, to debate the merits of Special Brew as set against King's HSL, Lynx Altra and all that other good stuff.
Favourite bitters (or are they ales? what's the difference?) are Black Sheep, Landlord, Deuchers and Tribute (from the St Austell Brewery) as well as all the Hall and Woodhouse ones (especially Blandford Fly).
Saying that, I'll drink pretty much anything and was considering a 'Very Strong Booze' thread, to debate the merits of Special Brew as set against King's HSL, Lynx Altra and all that other good stuff.
matt b
Indexing all opinion
castle rock is a brewery- their pub/brewery is near the station- you could use it as a gateway to the meadows (somewhere i DON'T miss)
i haven't been out in nottm for about 6 years, but bunkers hill in hockley is a city centre freehouse with a good range of beers. or go up mansfield road to lincolnshire poacher (used to do good food too).
matt b
Indexing all opinion
where's that then?
john eden
male pale and stale
Acklam Hall is now subterrania, iirc. Big Black / Head of David was at the Clarendon Hotel, as was the Butthole Surfers / Shamen / AR Kane gig.
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
Black Sheep, Farmers Blonde or Spitfire
I don't mind the thread going off target....
I miss this place, we lived next door in a squat for a while
http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/pubs/limit.htm
Lammermuir Hills
Half an hour south of Edinburgh. Fifteen minutes from lovely beaches at Gullane and North Berwick.
Our house was on the tree line. I could step out the door and roam for hours without seeing a car. Very rare in the UK. I used to dangle a worm into the loch you see there.
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