Beer Moose

 Welcome back to the Guinness challenge, I can’t believe that we are already up to part 6! Here’s a quick runaround of the places I’ve sampled Guinness in recently.  I decided to kick part 6 off with a visit to two central Greene King pubs. The Bath House is most famous for being next door to The Eagle. To be honest, I find this place ghastly. Paying £5.90 for a 1.75/5 Guinness feels like daylight robbery.  The dirty glass really topped off a bad Guinness tick. Things could only get better in The Eagle right?  You’d hope. Cambridge’s biggest tourist trap was packed, even on a Tuesday. The Eagle has history, I’ll give it that, but in my opinion that’s all it has going for it. The Guinness was a marginally better 2/5. The cask ale looked flat.  On a post football Saturday afternoon, I let friend of the blog, Nathan, be in charge of choosing the pub to meet in. Surprisingly he went for The Duke Of Cambridge, a pub I hadn’t visited since 2019. To be honest I didn’t ...

  We headed south into New Jersey and to my first Six Flags park! A large and diverse cred buffet awaiting us, and I was really excited! This park is home to big boy coasters like El Toro and Nitro, which I’d been hearing about for years. It’s also the home of Kingda Ka, the tallest and fastest operating coaster in the world!  We collected our diamond season passes and headed straight for the creds!  Harley Quinn Crazy Train 572:  A large Tivoli coaster, it had no queue so we ticked it off!  Skull Mountain 573:  A cred in a shed! What’s in the shed? An average indoor coaster, that I’m glad we didn’t have to queue for!  Jersey Devil Coaster 574:  My first RMC single rail coaster! Sadly, it looks much more impressive than it rides. It feels fast, but it’s not exactly smooth.  Lil Devil Coaster 575:  Guess who didn’t take a photo of this… plus one and done!  Nitro 576:  Touted by many as the best B&M hyper, I was excited to ri...

  Coney Island is part beach, part boardwalk and home to eleven coasters! After looking through the cred buffet (the creds we would be riding), expectations of riding something good were low. Amazingly we did find a real gem, hidden in plain site.  We could see Coney Island from the plane, especially this landmark:  The tower is a no longer operating drop ride, it was a useful marker of where we had parked!  With 11 creds to get, we wasted no time. Coney Island is split into two parks. Luna Park is a wristband park, which cost $75 and last for four hours. Deno’s is a pay per attraction park.  Thunderbolt 561: What an awful coaster. A real Zamperla special. Thunderbolt felt like it had square wheels and sits comfortably amongst the top ten worst coasters I’ve ridden.  Tony’s Express 562:  A powered plus one!  Soarin’ Eagle 563:   Anyone who has ridden a Volare knows that they don’t soar like an eagle. If you haven’t ridden one, imagine an emu ...