In Search Of The Best Guinness In Cambridge: Part 5

In Search Of The Best Guinness In Cambridge: Part 5 - My Iron Lung

I know that iron lungs are a rather out of date form of ventilation, they use negative pressure for one thing! Don’t worry, despite the fact that I spend a lot of thinking about ventilators, this isn’t going to be a blog about PEEP, pressure support or my favourite ventilator mode. The title is a reference to a song by Radiohead. Which takes me to the first Guinness stop, in part 5 of the challenge!

The Six Six Bar, formerly The Boat Race, has been a big music pub, when in its best incarnations. Friend of the blog, John, suggested going to watch a Radiohead tribute act, for some reason I agreed. To be honest, they were better than I expected, and I don’t like Radiohead that much.

The Guinness was real surprise, a strong and respectable 3/5! Thankfully there were no Creeps around!

The Free Press was next. I find the Free Press very hot and cold. Sometimes you get great beer, sometimes it’s awful beer. The Guinness fell more into the latter category. A perhaps generous 2.5 out of 5.

After it was a few weeks off, it was time to get more Guinness ticks! I hadn’t been to The Six Bells (Covent Garden) since around 2018. The last Mill Road Guinness tick was closed, when I tried to visit a few weeks back, happily it was now open!

The Guinness was surprisingly good! A solid pint, 3.5 out of 5! The pub was really nice inside, with a classic wooden interior. There were a couple of local character klaxons, which added to the experience.

With the sun shining, on a bank holiday weekend! It would have been rude not to visit a beer garden. After watching many people do some punting, badly, I dragged Nathan to The Granta. I hadn’t been to this pub for ages. It’s Greene King, so I tend to avoid, however the garden is ace.

Not a bad view or Guinness! 3.25 out of 5!

Next up was The Punter. I’ve always liked The Punter, it’s a nice pub, does great food and good drinks. However, it is still table service and it is clear that they are not keen on people who are only there to drink. I was meeting a friend, who was sat on a table outside of the pub. I went into the pub and the manager seemed genuinely confused about whether I could order at the bar, or if I had to order from the table. In the end I was given permission to order at the bar. Such an honour.

A strong 3.5 out of 5 Guinness to end part 5 on!

Part 6 is coming soon! Would like to extend an open invitation to anyone who wishes to come and sample some Guinness with me. Thanks for reading.

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