18/04/23 - Paddle Boarding in Lyme Regis

 Finding the best boozers in Lyme Regis

Three Good Beer Guide Ticks available, but only two are open before 2pm on a Tuesday.

Three is the necessary amount of pubs to declare it a crawl. With minimal research, we can add the Lyme Regis Brewery to the itinerary. As if so often the case, pub of the day.

An idyllic footpath running between two streams leads us to the Tap Room, next to a working watermill. A sun trap beer garden with a handful of benches. All the breweries offerings available at source. A King's pint of NEIPA soon turns into a trio of thirds. As much of the range needs to be sampled as possible.

A vanilla stout, an IPA and a Pale

Lyme Regis Tap

Such fine beers, such a fine establishment, I toyed with becoming a full on fan boy and buying a branded hoodie.

Onto the two Good Beer Guide Ticks that a) both in Prime Position and b) directly opposite each other. Are Palmers pubs prohibitively expensive? A chance to put it to the definitive test.

The Pilot Boat Inn is under scaffold, so not the easiest to identify. A nice little terrace running alongside but no seaview and the sun has to be in exactly the right position.

Palmers House with the full range (including Tally Ho!).  A 200 coming in at £6.

Palmers 200 at the Pilot Boat - 13:00 hrs according to my sun dial pint

Over the road and very much with a sea view is the St Austell tied Rock Point Inn. A proper tourist destination, this had little right to be so good for the casual drinker. I've never had Bath Ale Gem so well presented before but this was only an amuse bouche before the never knowingly turned down Proper Job. The barrell had just been changed. Hence the Gem.

Guide dog in training, Ivy, leading the way

And the cost for these nectars from the gods, in such fine surroundings.

£4.50.

Yep, Palmers are expensive.

Ivy, the Guide dog in Training, has been such a good pub dog, she gets rewarded with a free run before we catch the X53 home.

Frolicking in the shadow of Rock Point