点评:This pub is included in the current CAMRA GBG, so it was included in our recent Pub’s Galore crawl of Chesterfield to take a look. Unfortunately, the resounding question in everyone’s mind as we left was “Why?”
Firstly, let’s give credit where credit is due, in that they did open for us just before their advertised weekday 4.00PM opening, to accommodate our crawl.
Internally it was clearly a public and saloon bar set up back in the day, but now one long internal space with the bar across the middle section. The left-hand end still resembles a public bar set up and is dominated by a pool table and large flat screen tele, whereas the right-hand end is far more comfortable and lounge like. We chose to sit in the tables in the middle opposite the bar, which can best be described as, a bit in the middle.
Three ales and two ciders on the five ale pumps on the top dispensing Thornbridge Jaipur IPA and a couple of Autumn seasonals in the form of Woodforde’s Once Bitten and Elgoods Poltergeist. I went for the Elgoods Poltergeist and it appears that I dodged a bullet as the rest of the group reported that the Woodforde’s Once Bitten was very poor and the Jaipur was sour and undrinkable. The Jaipur was changed for the keg version without quibble and the pump clip reversed, and overall there was a suspicion that the required pulling through of the lines from the night before may not have been done diligently enough, but it is only a very small suspicion and wouldn’t have accounted for the rank awfulness of the Jaipur anyway.
Shame really, because this was the one small blip on an otherwise excellent drinking day around Chesterfield
翻译:这家酒吧被列入了CAMRA(英国真正啤酒协会)的《英国最佳酒吧指南》(GBG),因此我们最近在切斯特菲尔德的“酒吧巡游”活动中也顺道去了一趟。可惜的是,离开时大家心中最大的疑问是“为什么?”
首先,我们必须承认,为了配合我们的巡游,他们特意在工作日下午4点开门营业前就提前为我们开了门。
酒吧内部显然保留了过去那种公共酒吧和沙龙酒吧的风格,但现在变成了一个狭长的空间,吧台位于中间。左侧仍然保留着公共酒吧的布局,摆放着一张台球桌和一台大型平板电视,而右侧则更加舒适,更像一个休闲休息室。我们选择坐在吧台对面中间的桌子旁,位置可以说是有点尴尬。
五台啤酒泵供应三种麦芽啤酒和两种苹果酒,包括 Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 和两款秋季特酿:Woodforde’s Once Bitten 和 Elgoods Poltergeist。我点了 Elgoods Poltergeist,看来我真是侥幸逃过一劫,因为其他人都说 Woodforde’s Once Bitten 非常难喝,而 Jaipur 又酸又难以下咽。他们二话没说就把 Jaipur 换成了桶装的,还把泵夹反装了。大家普遍怀疑,可能是前一天晚上清理酒管的时候没彻底清理干净,但这只是个很小的疑点,而且即便如此,也解释不了 Jaipur 的糟糕程度。
真是可惜,因为这只是我在切斯特菲尔德附近度过的美好一天中唯一的小插曲。