October, 2009

The Champion of the Thames, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

A wooden panelled traditional style pub that is nice enough but is dominated by Greene King beers.   One beer that wasn't GK was St Austel Proper Job, which almost all of us had & wer

rating: 
7

St Radegund, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

The smallest pub in Cambridge apparently & right in the city centre.   St Radegund was packed on the Friday night we visited with standing room only.   5 real ales, from loc

rating: 
7

The Elm Tree, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

This is a traditionally styled pub, done out in dark wood with 8 real ales.   Some nice long tables were available for a group of us to sit at.   Pork scratchings for sale.&nbsp

rating: 
7

The Free Press, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

A traditional style pub done out in dark wood furniture & panelling with framed newspapers on the walls.   There is a small snug to one side of the island bar.   The only th

rating: 
8

The Green Dragon, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

A fairly ordinary traditional styled pub with reasonable beer.   Unfortunately it is a Greene King pub with GK beer which I find uninteresting.

rating: 
5

The Cambridge Blue, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

A traditional boozer in a residential street with several real ales, mostly from the local region

rating: 
9

Rivermill Tavern, St Neots, Cambridgeshire

Type of review: 
pub

Three of us stopped for lunch at the Rivermill Tavern on route to Cambridge.   In a quiet area overlooking canal boats tied up in a sidewater from the river, its an old pub with plenty of

rating: 
7

Kingston Arms, Cambridge

Type of review: 
pub

This is a modern pub in a residential street with a light, airy feel about it.  The service by Ben the barm

rating: 
10

What beer represents Great Britain? Your contributions please.

Is there one beer that could represents Great Britain?   If you were a haughty Frenchman you might say Carling: its crap & has no taste!   I don't think one beer can. &

Beer Tourism: Cambridge Day 2

Saturday morning saw us all fresh & ready to go on a full day's drinking around Cambridge.   After a big breakfast in the hotel we (Al, Andrew, Matt, Mark, Asun & me) walked towar

Beer Tourism: Cambridge Day 1

A new city for me to visit & tour the local pubs: Cambridge.   Bicycles & students everywhere & very busy in the centre with cars, luckily its not a big city at all & can

Sainsbury's reveal new bottled beer line up

Sainsbury'si have got a new line of products on the supermarket shelves as we go into Autumn, with some of the best beer they've ever had (strangely, none of it is mentioned at all on their shopping

Should a beer called Newcastle Brown Ale be brewed outside of the North East?

* No - it's called *Newcastle* Brown Alei for a reason!
* Yes - it's just a brand name like Guinnessi or Carling & can be brewed anywhere.

Nothing New Under The Sun? Wrong.

Dawn Kolpin of The Marksman in Shoreditch, London was reported on the

Bottled English-Style Bitter

Here is a list of bottled English-style bitter - blonde, pale & golden ales are not included;