Your last Pint?

[Dr Marco]

peach lager: Anthem

 

really nice on a hot summer day

[Stuntman_Mike]

Had a very satisfying pint of Abbot Ale in Bricklayers, Sharnford after a mooch around Fosse Meadows.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Gave the Fox Cub a go this afternoon with my old boy – really good set up. Beer was a bit tired but would definitely revisit. Worked in Barrow 17-18 and if I had it on my doorstep I'd not be in a rush to bugger off.

[VinceNoir]

 

Enjoying an unbelievable DIPA from monkish tonight at our summerhouse in Denmark. 25 degrees, kids asleep, got BSLB going, dog next to me. Can’t beat summer. 

[Stadt]

Tried a few new pubs in Nottingham yesterday towards Canning Circus.
 

The Sir John Borlase Warren is owned by Everards but operated by Lincoln Green Brewery, really steady option. Everards should supply their Project William pubs’ beers as guests in their own stock. 

 

The Falcon next door is a cracker, red wallpaper, potraits, proper upholstery and cheap for the hand-pulled beers.

 

Then Hand & Heart,  went because it sounded 🇬🇧✋ but felt like a similar set up to Cock & Hoop less it being cut into a cave. I wasn’t aware there were more cave pubs beyond YOTTJ.

 

The area is bizarre, grandiose Georgian buildings mixed in with dilapidated buildings and obvious deprivation in loads of homelessness.

[Lionator]

1 hour ago, Stadt said:

Tried a few new pubs in Nottingham yesterday towards Canning Circus.
 

The Sir John Borlase Warren is owned by Everards but operated by Lincoln Green Brewery, really steady option. Everards should supply their Project William pubs’ beers as guests in their own stock. 

 

The Falcon next door is a cracker, red wallpaper, potraits, proper upholstery and cheap for the hand-pulled beers.

 

Then Hand & Heart,  went because it sounded 🇬🇧✋ but felt like a similar set up to Cock & Hoop less it being cut into a cave. I wasn’t aware there were more cave pubs beyond YOTTJ.

 

The area is bizarre, grandiose Georgian buildings mixed in with dilapidated buildings and obvious deprivation in loads of homelessness.

Is the organ grinder still around there? Alfreton Road is unfortunately very deprived. If you go down the hill to the student area there’s the truly awful three wheatsheaves where you can get sub £2 pints 

[Stadt]

25 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Is the organ grinder still around there? Alfreton Road is unfortunately very deprived. If you go down the hill to the student area there’s the truly awful three wheatsheaves where you can get sub £2 pints 

Yeah didn’t head there as I’d read before it’s essentially the same as the Loughborough one.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

On 20/07/2025 at 15:58, Stadt said:

Tried a few new pubs in Nottingham yesterday towards Canning Circus.
 

The Sir John Borlase Warren is owned by Everards but operated by Lincoln Green Brewery, really steady option. Everards should supply their Project William pubs’ beers as guests in their own stock. 

 

The Falcon next door is a cracker, red wallpaper, potraits, proper upholstery and cheap for the hand-pulled beers.

 

Then Hand & Heart,  went because it sounded 🇬🇧✋ but felt like a similar set up to Cock & Hoop less it being cut into a cave. I wasn’t aware there were more cave pubs beyond YOTTJ.

 

The area is bizarre, grandiose Georgian buildings mixed in with dilapidated buildings and obvious deprivation in loads of homelessness.

 

Sir John was a go to after work when I lived in The Park, great gaff. Weird pub up that way I never got in called The Running Horse, beautiful tiled building but never ****ing open! 

 

Think there's a few 'cave pubs', not quite built into like the H&H but they're definitely under and visitable — Malt Cross and Old Salutation do iirc

 

Did you go through The Park Tunnel mate? One of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Really do get massive disparity with the Park and Radford / Arboretum rubbing shoulders 

 

 

[Dr The Singh]

Went to vocation in Sheffield, the DIPA was US class, so amooth

[Dr The Singh]

On 20/07/2025 at 15:58, Stadt said:

Tried a few new pubs in Nottingham yesterday towards Canning Circus.
 

The Sir John Borlase Warren is owned by Everards but operated by Lincoln Green Brewery, really steady option. Everards should supply their Project William pubs’ beers as guests in their own stock. 

 

The Falcon next door is a cracker, red wallpaper, potraits, proper upholstery and cheap for the hand-pulled beers.

 

Then Hand & Heart,  went because it sounded 🇬🇧✋ but felt like a similar set up to Cock & Hoop less it being cut into a cave. I wasn’t aware there were more cave pubs beyond YOTTJ.

 

The area is bizarre, grandiose Georgian buildings mixed in with dilapidated buildings and obvious deprivation in loads of homelessness.

Never rated canning circus, I used to go there 6 or 7 years ago.  It got too popular, so stopped going.  Good to see its doing well.

 

I used to hang around the park aswell, my old boss owned a house there and used to invited us around.  Interesting but full of foookwits

[ren]

Just been on a stag do in Bratislava, Bernard is a lovely pint there. Had it in Prague previously too, and preferred it to the more popular Pilsner Urquell both times.

[Stadt]

37 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Sir John was a go to after work when I lived in The Park, great gaff. Weird pub up that way I never got in called The Running Horse, beautiful tiled building but never ****ing open! 

 

Think there's a few 'cave pubs', not quite built into like the H&H but they're definitely under and visitable — Malt Cross and Old Salutation do iirc

 

Did you go through The Park Tunnel mate? One of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Really do get massive disparity with the Park and Radford / Arboretum rubbing shoulders 

 

 

No, walked a really direct route there and back - the park is a nice area iirc? Had no idea about the MC cave.

 

They’re not normally retiring when it comes self-aggrandisement so I’m surprised it’s not more a thing.

[Stadt]

33 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

Never rated canning circus, I used to go there 6 or 7 years ago.  It got too popular, so stopped going.  Good to see its doing well.

 

I used to hang around the park aswell, my old boss owned a house there and used to invited us around.  Interesting but full of foookwits

Strange area, it was busy-ish but hard pressed to say it was doing well. A few tents under doorways etc 

[bovril]

2 hours ago, ren said:

Just been on a stag do in Bratislava, Bernard is a lovely pint there. Had it in Prague previously too, and preferred it to the more popular Pilsner Urquell both times.

When I lived in Bulgaria we found a place that sold draught Bernard which was great as the local stuff was crap. Great beer.

[CosbehFox]

Pulled in a lovely pilsner from Pure Bar in Birmingham on Saturday 

 

Off Melton Mowbray Saturday for some non-league. Obviously Round Corner, Anne of Cleves on the list - any others? 

[AjcW]

On 20/07/2025 at 15:58, Stadt said:

Tried a few new pubs in Nottingham yesterday towards Canning Circus.
 

The Sir John Borlase Warren is owned by Everards but operated by Lincoln Green Brewery, really steady option. Everards should supply their Project William pubs’ beers as guests in their own stock. 

 

The Falcon next door is a cracker, red wallpaper, potraits, proper upholstery and cheap for the hand-pulled beers.

 

Then Hand & Heart,  went because it sounded 🇬🇧✋ but felt like a similar set up to Cock & Hoop less it being cut into a cave. I wasn’t aware there were more cave pubs beyond YOTTJ.

 

The area is bizarre, grandiose Georgian buildings mixed in with dilapidated buildings and obvious deprivation in loads of homelessness.

Lived in about 4 different flats on that road between 2010 and 2018, you're right, its a bizarre area, some cracking pubs though.

 

Hand & Heart is great, to be honest it's a Sunday Roast pub for me though rather than pop in for a pint type of place. It was easily the best place in Notts centre for a sunday roast back then, imagine that might have changed now. 

[SemperEadem]

17 hours ago, Dr The Singh said:

Went to vocation in Sheffield, the DIPA was US class, so amooth

Many there? Worried it always feels quiet.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

16 hours ago, ren said:

Just been on a stag do in Bratislava, Bernard is a lovely pint there. Had it in Prague previously too, and preferred it to the more popular Pilsner Urquell both times.

Is that the one where they sell light and dark? And then a "medium" where they just do half of each  

[Dr The Singh]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Many there? Worried it always feels quiet.

Quite a few for a Monday night, im there.now, there's about 10 people in there.

 

The food isnt greats, everything is cooked from frozen.

 

The spoons down the road is packed.  Boy is the place ropy, but im like a sex God in there, im like the only person with a full set of teeth and without crabs

[ren]

3 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Is that the one where they sell light and dark? And then a "medium" where they just do half of each  

Yeah we were on the medium, with a few of the older members on the darker stuff 

[Chris_OGrady]

Had a shedload in the Bankers Cat Leeds at the weekend and then got out to the Three Pigeons in Halifax, a few in Sowerby Bridge, and the Vocation Taproom in Hebden Bridge. I think Yorkshire is my favourite place for pubs and beer in the UK (I haven't even done Sheffield properly yet). Sparklers till I die!

Edited 22 July 2025 by Chris_OGrady

[Lionator]

12 hours ago, AjcW said:

Lived in about 4 different flats on that road between 2010 and 2018, you're right, its a bizarre area, some cracking pubs though.

 

Hand & Heart is great, to be honest it's a Sunday Roast pub for me though rather than pop in for a pint type of place. It was easily the best place in Notts centre for a sunday roast back then, imagine that might have changed now. 

Another oddity is that the Raglan Road pub has been raided many times, which is odd as it seems like an unremarkable Irish bar both inside and out but there must be something sketchy about it

[Voll Blau]

Pre-Oasis pints in Bury on Sunday. Stuck to lager as sessioning.

 

Thornbridge Bayern lager at The Trackside, Bury - Trainspotter pub at Bury steam train station with a good selection.

 

Riegeler Bier at The Marketside Tavern, Bury - Sucker for a German beer I've never heard of. Busy micropub with a chatty barman who chucked Oasis tunes on as soon as he saw my mate's t-shirt.

 

Diamond lager at The Friendship Inn, Prestwich - Placcy glass and too rammed to fully appreciate, but I do enjoy a Joseph Holt pub when up that way.

Edited 22 July 2025 by Voll Blau

[AjcW]

26 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Another oddity is that the Raglan Road pub has been raided many times, which is odd as it seems like an unremarkable Irish bar both inside and out but there must be something sketchy about it

Used to be my go to sports bar if I just wanted to pop out downstairs midweek.
 

it’s tame most of the time, but an awful lot goes on in terms of money coming into and going out of it… allegedly…  

 

There’s a more than strong link with the Irish traveller community. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Lovely pints of Tribute in a pub in South Devon, seemingly proving the old cliche that beer doesn't travel well as whenever I've had it in the Midlands it's been thoroughly unremarkable