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Moose On The Loose: Behind Enemy Lines In Peterborough!

 

Ah Peterborough, a place frequently voted as one of the top three worst places to live in The UK and home to my least favourite football team. It would actually be quite easy to write a blog sticking the boot into one of my least favourite places, but I won’t do that. Let’s focus on the beer instead. 

A pre planned stop on the way home from Lincoln, Peterborough has some decent places. The first of which is The Blind Tiger.

The Blind Tiger is a proper craft place, it’s great! I had Sports Mode from Silent Brew Co and it was lovely! I also really love the seating at The Blind Tiger.

Suspended seats!

From here we made the short walk to The Stoneworks Bar for a first visit!

Small but mighty!

We opted to go straight for Impys from Scandinavian Brewers Amundsen and Dugges. Two favourites of mine! 

You can’t just have one impy right?

Cheers to impys!

Working slowly towards the station we headed into The Brewery Tap. 

I’ve visiting this place before and always thought that it looks a lot like The Regal in Cambridge inside. Sadly it now seems to give a similar experience. As far as I’m aware this is an Oakham Ales owned pub and I’d hoped to see some of the lesser spotted Oakham Beers. The line up was Citra, JBH and Inferno which isn’t a line up of bad beers at all, but I’d hoped for something different. The keg line up was just macro lagers and Guinness. I went for JHB and it was fine, nothing more. 

We didn’t really have time for another pub, but that didn’t seem to stop us. I’d been to The Ostrich before but had no recollection of it! 


 The bitter from Lune brewery was ok but the pub wasn’t very welcoming and we called it a day.

You can find great beer in Peterborough but would you want to?  




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  1. retiredmartinMarch 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM

    An honest assessment.

    20 years ago I'd have put Peterborough in my top 20 pub cities. Brewery Tap, Charters, Palmerston, Coalheavers, Hand and Heart....but they've gone backwards and only a host of suburban micros have taken their place.

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