Pubs - 3
Good Beer Guide Ticks - #618-620
Exmouth. I like it. Mrs M is not so keen. I see vibrancy, many restaurants/bars and all human life. She smells that cloying scent of a striped north American mammal at every street corner.
Three Good Beer Guide Ticks are available and each, in their own way, are superb.
The Grapevine, Victoria Road, Rum Tom Tom and Ayinger Winterbock
Smart Victorian Street Corner Pub |
Just the other side of the central door is a velvet rope. Where we wait to see if we are allowed in. A cursory inspection determines that we may be pushing our luck, as every table is taken. But fear not, for they have a covered courtyard with bench seating and importantly for people in an Air BnB with no hot water or heating, a log burner.
Table mounted menus on clipboard show the offerings from this brewpub - home of Crossed Anchor Beers.
Note to future self - there's several pages |
Without knowing what molasses actually are, I went for the Rum Tum Tum Stout - brewed with the molasses of rum production. A 6.4% stout that had a fizz on the tongue and took a while to get through.
Follow the Arrows |
On approach, Mrs M spied a night club and said "that's not it, is it". To be fair, the nightclub may have been quieter.
For tonight, it is Barbara's 60th and one thing Barbara likes is 50s music. Very, very loud.
Dancing was not reserved for only the party guests. The lady in the walking boots had surely stumbled on this scene of carnage by chance. But by christ, didn't she like Dion and the Belmonts.
If I could have heard myself think, I could have worked out how to get at the buffet.
Its all going on down there - jiving.... pork pies.... |
Beer wise, I am a sucker for a Xmas Ale - even in Calendar Week 46. And the Checkstone Warm Yer Cockles - coming in at a powerful 7.5% - was a wonderful pint. Even if Untappd says its discontinued.
Excellent |
With a table booked for 8pm, we were forced to leave before things got really messy. There are going to be some thick heads in Exmouth on Sunday.
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