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When I was a kid, my Grandpa used the term "polish his liver" from time to time.
Now I know what it meant.
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When I was a kid, my Grandpa used the term "polish his liver" from time to time.
Now I know what it meant.
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Spotted a few beers from a Basque brewery today, and thought I'd pick up a couple. Not bad
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Looks tasty, Jack. And, oh my, what a classy pair of pocketknives you’ve got with it.
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When I was a kid, my Grandpa used the term "polish his liver" from time to time.
Now I know what it meant.
Looks tasty, Jack. And, oh my, what a classy pair of pocketknives you’ve got with it.
Thanks Greg
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Geeeeezz.
Where did you dig that one up from JB?
CCTV cameras get everything these days mate!
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I called into a Leeds bar for a couple of mid afternoon pints
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So Jack. Are they going to be brewing Tetley's in Leeds again...??
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Some is being brewed at Leeds Brewery apparently, but only sold through Carlsberg. It's some old Tetley's recipe Carlsberg have found in the records. Unfortunately, the author of the piece hadn't actually had a chance to taste it!
Have you tried Timothy Taylor's Brown Ale yet?
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So a few of you good folks appear to enjoyed my beer and pub posts in the past so I thought I'd post where I got to in the past few days. Camping in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire in northern England for a mates birthday. Several pubs visited and copious amounts of ale drank All in all an excellent 5 days.
Sorry I'm just editing this to say it's all a bit picture heavy...
I started with a pint of 'Pennine Rambler' 4% brewed by Kirkby Lonsdale brewery.
This was being served in the Station Inn at Ribblehead. Built in 1874 to serve the Ribblehead station on the Settle to Carlisle railway and the men who built that and the adjacent Ribblehead viaduct.
Even in comparison to modern engineering the Ribblehead Viaduct is still an impressive site. With 24 spans, it's 1320 feet in length and carries the railway 104 feet above Ribblesdale.
The next day started with an excellent pint of Theakston's brewery 'Lightfoot' a 4.1% pale ale.
This was being served at the Rose and Crown Hotel in the pretty village of Bainbridge. It's an old drovers inn and dates in parts from 1445.
An explanation of the above. I love old customs like this
All in all an excellent 5 days.Sorry I'm just editing this to say it's all a bit picture heavy...
I started with a pint of 'Pennine Rambler' 4% brewed by Kirkby Lonsdale brewery.
This was being served in the Station Inn at Ribblehead. Built in 1874 to serve the Ribblehead station on the Settle to Carlisle railway and the men who built that and the adjacent Ribblehead viaduct.
Even in comparison to modern engineering the Ribblehead Viaduct is still an impressive site. With 24 spans, it's 1320 feet in length and carries the railway 104 feet above Ribblesdale.
The next day started with an excellent pint of Theakston's brewery 'Lightfoot' a 4.1% pale ale.
This was being served at the Rose and Crown Hotel in the pretty village of Bainbridge. It's an old drovers inn and dates in parts from 1445.
An explanation of the above. I love old customs like this
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So onto the Victoria in the hamlet of Worton another old drovers inn dating from 1698.
Well this was a real find. A genuine rural fur n' feather pub that was literally unchanged for the past... 300years....?? At some point all rural English pubs would of looked like this and I'm really not sure how many are left. It's the sort of pub were a brace of rabbits will buy you your ale for the night. The Licencing laws and smoking ban haven't really reached here yet either It's not a pub for tourists; this is a real locals pub for farmers, shooters, farriers ect and theres a great many people in the UK who would walk in here then run straight back out again. Especially if the saw the toilets... 
The landlord had apparently inherited it from his parents who ran it for over 60 years, and chatting to him I very much doubt he'd left the pub in the past 60 years himself. No cask ale only keg on draft. He was unsure whether it was Theakston's Bitter or Black Sheep Bitter that he served, but whatever it was it was actually a really good pint I could of stayed here all day.
And the back room. Circa...1950...??
Back to civilization and a pint of "Drover's Arms" a 3.9% bitter from the local Yorkshire Dales Brewery, in the Kings Arms pub in the village of Askrigg.
An historic coaching inn in the centre of the village.
More to come...
Well this was a real find. A genuine rural fur n' feather pub that was literally unchanged for the past... 300years....?? At some point all rural English pubs would of looked like this and I'm really not sure how many are left. It's the sort of pub were a brace of rabbits will buy you your ale for the night. The Licencing laws and smoking ban haven't really reached here yet either
It's not a pub for tourists; this is a real locals pub for farmers, shooters, farriers ect and theres a great many people in the UK who would walk in here then run straight back out again. Especially if the saw the toilets...
The landlord had apparently inherited it from his parents who ran it for over 60 years, and chatting to him I very much doubt he'd left the pub in the past 60 years himself. No cask ale only keg on draft. He was unsure whether it was Theakston's Bitter or Black Sheep Bitter that he served, but whatever it was it was actually a really good pint
I could of stayed here all day.
And the back room. Circa...1950...??
Back to civilization and a pint of "Drover's Arms" a 3.9% bitter from the local Yorkshire Dales Brewery, in the Kings Arms pub in the village of Askrigg.
An historic coaching inn in the centre of the village.
More to come...
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We finished that day at the Crown Inn in Askrigg for a pint of Yorkshire Dales brewery 'Askrigg Bitter' 3.8%
I'm not sure whether it was on telly in the US but Askrigg and the above pubs were used to film a popular long running TV show from the 1970/80's about Yorkshire vets called "All Creatures Great and Small".
So me and my mate had a little drive out on Sunday. I visited 3 pubs but only really got a knife shot in one.
A half pint of Yorkshire Dales brewery "Buckden Pike". A 3.9% blonde pilsner beer. Now I don't usually drink pilsners but I've got to say this was one tasty ale
At the White Lion pub. An old drovers inn in....the middle of nowhere....
The last day was just me so it I decided to walk some of the Pennine Way; a long distance footpath in England, between the village of Muker and the Tan Hill Inn, approximately sort of near a place called Reeth.
www.tanhillinn.com
A half pint of "Baa Baa" a rather nice 4% pale ale from Yorkshire's famous Black Sheep brewery.
The Tan Hill Inn is the highest pub in the UK at 1732 feet above sea level. It was built in the 17th century to serve a coal mining village that existed there. The mine closed in 1929 and the village was demolished but the pub persisted and is now a popular destination for day trippers and walkers despite it's isolated location.
It can get a tad wild n' woolly up there so they keep a BV-206 on hand just in case...
If you've got this far thanks for reading everyone
And if anyone ever visits England, forget London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Chester and all the other UK tourist spots. Get yaselves to Yorkshire. You won't regret it
-David
I'm not sure whether it was on telly in the US but Askrigg and the above pubs were used to film a popular long running TV show from the 1970/80's about Yorkshire vets called "All Creatures Great and Small".
So me and my mate had a little drive out on Sunday. I visited 3 pubs but only really got a knife shot in one.
A half pint of Yorkshire Dales brewery "Buckden Pike". A 3.9% blonde pilsner beer. Now I don't usually drink pilsners but I've got to say this was one tasty ale
At the White Lion pub. An old drovers inn in....the middle of nowhere....
The last day was just me so it I decided to walk some of the Pennine Way; a long distance footpath in England, between the village of Muker and the Tan Hill Inn, approximately sort of near a place called Reeth.
www.tanhillinn.com
A half pint of "Baa Baa" a rather nice 4% pale ale from Yorkshire's famous Black Sheep brewery.
The Tan Hill Inn is the highest pub in the UK at 1732 feet above sea level. It was built in the 17th century to serve a coal mining village that existed there. The mine closed in 1929 and the village was demolished but the pub persisted and is now a popular destination for day trippers and walkers despite it's isolated location.
It can get a tad wild n' woolly up there so they keep a BV-206 on hand just in case...
If you've got this far thanks for reading everyone
And if anyone ever visits England, forget London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Chester and all the other UK tourist spots. Get yaselves to Yorkshire. You won't regret it
-David
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Some is being brewed at Leeds Brewery apparently, but only sold through Carlsberg. It's some old Tetley's recipe Carlsberg have found in the records. Unfortunately, the author of the piece hadn't actually had a chance to taste it!
Have you tried Timothy Taylor's Brown Ale yet?
Ahh... ok. Because after they stopped brewing it in Leeds,I tried a few pints, and it tasted just like lukewarm brasso...
Looks like Carlsberg have jumped on the marketing bandwagon of "finding an ancient brewers notebook with long-lost recipes in it". Anyway I hope they have cos I like Leeds Brewery beers and I liked Tetley's...
No Jack I've not found Timmy Taylor's Brown Ale yet. You mentioned it a weeks or two ago and said it was quite nice if I recall, so I'll keep a weathered eye open...
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Thanks for taking us along on that fantastic tour mate, really enjoyed it What fantastic pubs
I went in Fagan's in Sheffield with @Cambertree. Unusually, for British pubs these days, they only had two ales on, one of which was Tetley's. As Fagan's is one of my old haunts, and served a cracking pint of Tetley's in the past, I thought I'd try a pint for for nostalgia's sake. Really wish I hadn't!
What fantastic pubs Ahh... ok. Because after they stopped brewing it in Leeds,I tried a few pints, and it tasted just like lukewarm brasso...
I went in Fagan's in Sheffield with @Cambertree. Unusually, for British pubs these days, they only had two ales on, one of which was Tetley's. As Fagan's is one of my old haunts, and served a cracking pint of Tetley's in the past, I thought I'd try a pint for for nostalgia's sake. Really wish I hadn't!
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Your welcome gents. Depending what time I get out of work tomorrow there may be another one on Friday... 
LOL Will. Great quote! But I'm not carrying anyone home from the Tan Hill. It's 11 miles to the nearest town...
Dr. Johnson quote "He was wont Sir, for exercise to walk to the ale-house but had to be CARRIED home from it!"
LOL Will. Great quote!
But I'm not carrying anyone home from the Tan Hill. It's 11 miles to the nearest town...
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donn Fine gallery of public houses
Not sure I'd want to go home from those
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So a few of you good folks appear to enjoyed my beer and pub posts in the past so I thought I'd post where I got to in the past few days. Camping in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire in northern England for a mates birthday. Several pubs visited and copious amounts of ale drank
Sorry I'm just editing this to say it's all a bit picture heavy...
I could swear I've seen every one of these places on Last of the Summer Wine.
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Ah, Bock! (Shiner Bock, that is.)
(Raise your hand if you know which M*A*S*H episode this comes from. Although they were talking about a different "Bach".)
(Raise your hand if you know which M*A*S*H episode this comes from. Although they were talking about a different "Bach".)
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I love history! I believe history and the sciences were my only top two subjects in skoolWe finished that day at the Crown Inn in Askrigg for a pint of Yorkshire Dales brewery 'Askrigg Bitter' 3.8%
I'm not sure whether it was on telly in the US but Askrigg and the above pubs were used to film a popular long running TV show from the 1970/80's about Yorkshire vets called "All Creatures Great and Small".
So me and my mate had a little drive out on Sunday. I visited 3 pubs but only really got a knife shot in one.
A half pint of Yorkshire Dales brewery "Buckden Pike". A 3.9% blonde pilsner beer. Now I don't usually drink pilsners but I've got to say this was one tasty ale
At the White Lion pub. An old drovers inn in....the middle of nowhere....
The last day was just me so it I decided to walk some of the Pennine Way; a long distance footpath in England, between the village of Muker and the Tan Hill Inn, approximately sort of near a place called Reeth.
www.tanhillinn.com
A half pint of "Baa Baa" a rather nice 4% pale ale from Yorkshire's famous Black Sheep brewery.
The Tan Hill Inn is the highest pub in the UK at 1732 feet above sea level. It was built in the 17th century to serve a coal mining village that existed there. The mine closed in 1929 and the village was demolished but the pub persisted and is now a popular destination for day trippers and walkers despite it's isolated location.
It can get a tad wild n' woolly up there so they keep a BV-206 on hand just in case...
If you've got this far thanks for reading everyone
And if anyone ever visits England, forget London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Chester and all the other UK tourist spots. Get yaselves to Yorkshire. You won't regret it
-David
way way back 
Thanks David
