In Birmingham city centre today for a crawl organized by Paul, an acquaintance from the Burton Beer Circle. The plan had been to visit pubs in the centre but in fact we started off in the Digbeth part of the city taking in some regular Good Beer guide pubs.
After a somewhat curvacious vying on the industrial type route (or so it felt) we found ourselves at the Anchor. A number of Chritmas brews were available and my choice was
Wreck the Halls from
Plain Ales.
From there we headed awaty from the city to the White Swan.
Ringwood Forty Niner was accompanied by an excellent ham salad cob.
The LampTavern was next. This is the only pub in Birmingham that sells
Stanney Bitter from the
Stanway Brewery so that had to be my selection here.
We now headed back toward the centre calling at the Old Fox where I had
Wentworth Treacle & Oats Stout (would have been moreish had we had time! Some interesting old theatre posters on display here (being close the to hippodrome) including one with Morecambe and Wise before they were top of the bill.)
The Victoria next which despite an excellent (for future reference) selection of spirits, I stayed on beer in the shape of
Dark Star's
Old Chestnut.
A new pub next, the
Brewdog Bar (in john bright Street) offering a selection of their own craft beers.
Hoppy Christmas was my choice but the Cocoa Psycho I sampled was also interesting. Whilst expensive maybe, I did remark that the beers herer would last longer than in most other pubs so in a way not really that dear.
We then headed away for a while to go round the German Christmas Market and also to acquire more food before rejoining the others at the post Office Vaults. I looked through the beer menu before opting for the final beer of the day,
Delirium Christmas , a 10% Belgium at which point I decided Christmas could now start..
