A couple of pubs in Warrington

Friday 16th March.

As I'm spending 3 days based in Preston, it provided a good opportunity to revisit some pubs in Warrington but I visited a new pub for in Preston. The Continental is away from the town centre but was fairly close to my hotel so I went there first.

And a couple of photos of the adjacent railway viaduct.

Then on to Warrington. First stop was the Friar Penketh for a couple of Weterspoons festival beers.

Then to the Lower Angel for a new brewery and I was in luck. I had 2 beers from Tipsy Angel brewery which is located in a building at the back of the pub. Mild Angel 3.6% and  Paddy's Angel ( a stout) 4.5% were both drunk. The beers brewed here are based on old Taylor Walker beers which the brewer had researched for himself. He showed me the results and has quite a number of old recipe details. The recipes have had to be scaled for the Tipsy Angel brewery it brews just one brewers barrel at a time.

So here are the photos:

And the Tipsy Angel brewery is shown below:

I then went to the Ring O Bells but as it only had Wells & Youngs - Courage Directors, I declined a drink. photos taken of pub anyway.

Then to the Tavern which is the home of the 4T's brewery.

A fantastic choice of beers here with 8 handpumps plus the adjacent music room was open (fri sat and sun only I believe) with another 4 handpumps.

The outside of the pub:

And inside

Music bar

music bar

main bar

main bar

main bar

main bar

And finally the Looking Glass for food and festival beers. Then train back to Preston and bed.

A Day Trip To Newcastle

Saturday 28th January. Just over 600 miles by train today. I decided to take advantage of a special offer from East Coast Trains. Any advance ticket £10 standard class or £25 first class. So I shelled out £50 for a Kings Cross - Newcastle first class return.
The train left Kings Cross at 0900, arriving Newcastle 1151.

Platform 6 at Kings Cross

I have only visited Newcastle once before a couple of years ago when I spent a week based there. The city centre has a good mixture of real ale pubs and today I was meeting a friend who lives there as well so off to the first pub of the day.

The Bridge Hotel

The Crown Posada

Bacchus

Lady Greys

LYH

Newcastle Arms

Bodega

 Town Wall

Waiting for the train to leave Newcastle and my first class seat.

 

The train left about half hour late, awaiting train crew delayed further south. I really enjoyed my wander around Newcastle. Found lots of different beers which are listed below.

Bridge Hotel:
Delavals-Lindisfarne Castle 4.0, Tyne Bank-Castle Brown 4.0,Marstons Wai-iti
4.0, Durham-Genesis 4.9

Crown Posada:
Hadraian border-Tyneside Blonde 3.9

Bacchus:
Yorkshire Dales-Bacchus Arctic 3.9, Temptation-Cascadian Dark Ale 4.5, cellar
run Sherfield Village-Cutting Response 4.5

Lady Greys:
Gundog - Red Setter 3.9, Hadraian Border-Tyneside Light Ale 3.5

LYH:
Caledonian - A Nan's A Man 3.4

Hotspur:
Jarrow-Isis 5.0

Newcastle Arms:
Summer Wine - Saison Lime & Coriander 6.0, Big Lamp- Newcastle Arms Winter Gold
4.5

Bodega:
Oakham-Preacher 4.3
Brew Co - Silly Biily chilli 4.5

Town Wall:
Wylam - Reel craft intergalactic Pale Ale 3.9, Wylam-Toon Waal Ale 4.1

Centurion Bar:
Delavars-Seaton Delaval Hall 4.2