Welcome to another blog! This instalment is a combination of an away day and northern beer blog, so there’s a lot to get through! I travelled up north on the Friday afternoon and met Rach at Sureshot, where we enjoyed some of Sureshot’s 4th birthday beers! From here it would have been rude not to visit Cloudwater and Track too, so we did. I like Cloudwater beer a lot but there’s something I just don’t love about their taproom and I can’t put my finger on it. No there’s not a Peterborough United clock… Track however is one of my favourite taprooms. Here I enjoyed the Spezial, Festbier, which was stunning. Festbier is such a difficult style to get right and Track have aced it. We were getting hungry so made our way to Bundobust on Oxford Road. They had a new menu on which included some Chinese inspired dishes. The food here is excellent but is all veggie and I do miss meat… I washed the food down with their lager and centennial hopped NEIPA. Our next stop was old fave w...
Newport have never struck me as a football league club and I don’t think they will be one for much longer. Cambridge however are looking like they will be a league one club again, and we made the trip to Wales hoping to avoid another defeat to a bottom of the league club. Setting off around 08:00 we made our first stop at the rather nice Rugby Services, where a Greggs was much needed! Nom Arriving in Newport around 13:20 we went for a walk to find a pint. ? Newport castle? A local suggested we visited The Potters, which happened to be just round the corner! A nice sports focused pub with Alpacalypse from Salt on tap, which I enjoyed. We saw even more sights walking back to the ground. Screams non league Through the turnstiles we were presented with the choice of a stand with a roof to the side of the pitch, which felt a bit cramped or a stand behind the goal without a roof. We opted to stand behind the goal in the rain. Not a bad view Hardcore fans After a rather nothing fir...