I love York. It’s a city I’ve visited most years of my life. When I decided that I needed to take my revision somewhere else, York was my first pick. I spent my mornings walking around my second favourite UK city, my afternoons revising and my evenings in the pub. Now I doubt you’re interested in convection, inotropic drugs or cytokines; so I’d better just focus on the pubs. Most of these pubs I’ve been to before, a few are some of my all time favourites. Welcome to the first part of Moose On The Loose: York.
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| I love this view |
The Rose & Crown:
A strong contender for best pie I’ve ever had, The Rose & Crown was a pub cred for me! Pints of Ainsty Ales and Theakston slid down a treat. I had to watch in horror as a women ate fish (chip shop fish) but with mash and no chips! Immediately, I took to twitter to see if this is a northern thing:
Pretty unanimous then.
The Waggon & Horses:
A proper pub, built for conversation. Plenty of beer options and weirdly a lot of Plymouth Argyle stuff! I opted for this delight from Castle Rock.
Look at that clarity! Impeccable condition, I could have easily stayed for another one.
The Rook and Gaskill Beerhouse:
This was me last year:
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| It does seem to keep them out to be fair |
This is a great pub. It’s Untappd verified, so you can have a sneaky peek at the beer list prior to going. I went for a beer from Grimsby, Forged in Fire by Docks Brewery. Toffee ++++!
The Phoenix:
The Phoenix is one of my favourite pubs. There’s always a delicious dark beer on; I treated to Ossett’s Treacle stout! Look at that cascade:
The barman asked if I’d tried the stronger version, of course I had, in this very pub last year! This year The Pheonix was packed, so we sat on a communal bench sort of thing. Later we were joined by the couple who own and run the first pub on this blog, The Rose and Crown. How strange! They asked for some Cambridge recommendations, which I was more than happy to provide.
The next day I wanted to try and visit both of House Of Trembling Madness places, I’d never actually been in the pub part of the smaller one. Despite me trying to go to them at around 16:00, they were so packed I couldn’t get in. It was raining and I needed a beer, so I did want anyone would do and got myself a pub cred.
Ye Old Shambles Tavern:
A pub that’s surprisingly big on the inside, Ye Old Shambles Tavern proved a decent and worthy pub cred. The cask offering, mostly from Rudgate, was served in good condition. Would go back, if I can fight my way through the ghost shop queue again.
Brew York:
Craft breweries have to be on industrial estates, I don’t make the rules. If you look at the street that Brew York is situated off, you’d worry that there isn’t an industrial estate there. Fear not!
To be honest, I find Brew York beers very hit and miss. Their consistency prevents them from being one of my fave breweries. Their taproom is a strange one. Two in one? One pub and a beer hall? I’ll let you visit and make up your own mind. I prefer the more pub one. There’s something special (or maybe it’s nerdy) about drinking in view of the brewing equipment. I started on a pale and then of course had the imperial porter. Both were very good. What wasn’t very good was the weather. It rained more than I’d ever seen before. My phone camera was soaked.
It was then time to slither upstairs:
Weirdly, the upstairs was a lot quieter. I saw a pun beer that I had to have. Unbelievable Heff, named about football legend Kammy, is a Hefeweizen.. apparently. Swing and a miss, this beer was woeful. Still at least I got on TV again:
I think I’ll end part 1 here. Part 2 coming soon.
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