Oatmeal stout in London SW4

No Sam Smith's pubs in your area or decent offies? You could also look for Young's oatmeal stout. Clapham isn't far from Wandsworth, is it? (been away so long I forgot my London geography)

Luckily, both are available here :-)

Wayne

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 4:56:18 +0000, Tristan Miller wrote (in message ):

Try MICROBAR, 14 Lavender Hill for an unparalleled beer range.

However handy the information you've just supplied may be for people in the York area that don't know a decent offie near them, the point is the query was for availability in London therefore a supplier in York isn't much use to someone based down there.

I think the OP was looking for somewhere they could collect from rather than pay shipping charges.

As it happens I believe many prayers about supply of beer through the post are likely to be answered through a familiar web site.

FWIW, I've had some cracking pints of stout in the White Horse (aka the Sloaney Pony due to all the suits from Chelsea drinking there) which is 50 yards from Parsons Green tube station.

Do you still have a personal business interest in this establishment, or are you just promoting an advert for the new owner(s)?

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:47:41 +0000, dgs wrote (in message ):

I decide to sell up when my son was born so I have no business interest but I do know the new owners and I also know SW4 very well having lived there for

So, no, I'm not "promoting an advert for the new owner(s)" I am responding to the post with the benefit of first hand knowledge.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:06:54 +0000, Brian Debenham wrote (in message ):

Don't start!

I will say though, it is hellishly more expensive to run a bar in a 'trendy' sought-after place like Clapham where rents are extremely high, likewise business rates. Plus MICROBAR has always attempted to avoid "typical Belgian bottles" as you can easily get them in supermarkets and instead stock some harder to find stuff which generally necessitates high prices, in some cases the more 'run-of-the-mill' stuff is used to subsidise the more obscure stuff.

I'm not sure the comparison is entirely fair.

FWIW, I'ld like to endorse Steve's comments here and add that similar considerations apply at the two best outlets for Belgian beer round Manchester. You can get some sublime triumphs of the brewer's art at Le Trappiste in Altrincham, and some even more obscure and wonderful beers at Belgian Belly in Chorlton. But for heaven's sake, don't make the mistake of working out afterwards how many pints of Joe Holt's Bitter you could have had for the same price as a half bottle of Oud Beersel's Oude Kriek - you'll just ruin a great beer when you cry into it.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 0:13:29 +0000, Joyce Whitchurch wrote (in message ):

I had a couple of pints of Holt's recently (Maple Moon and regular bitter IIRC) in the spirit of exploration. God they were joyless pints. No wonder it is cheap, it is evidently all expense spared beer.

If real ale fans think the uninitiated should just try a few pints of real ale and they'll be converted, then lets hope it's not Holt's!

Holt's is a different experience - though not altogether, the tale is that their bitter is less bitter than it used to be because they finished off the old shedful of hops and had to buy some new ones. I'm not going to claim that Holt's is the Lancashire Geuze, but both forms of beer seem to share a penchant for old hops and lots of 'em!

I have always found Holts Bitter too bitter for my tastes but found their Mild a lovely drink. It is a few years since my last session in a Holts pub & I seem to remember them selling a nip sized bottle of barley wine or strong ale that made a superb Mild/mixed. I cannot find any reference to the bottle these days. Does anyone remember it?

That would be "Sixex". I have the following info direct from CAMRA's Brewery Liaison Officer for Holt's:

Apologies for the SHOUTING and surplus punctuation marks - but those of you who know the BLO in question will recognise that his posting style closely resembles his conversational style. (YESS!!)

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 4:56:18 +0000, Tristan Miller wrote (in message ):

MICROBAR currently has Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout in stock.

Dunno if it's been said before, but Sam Smiths pubs (obviously).

Youngs also do a bottled Oatmeal Stout - I don't know what prices in London are like, but Horts in Bristol sell 4 for a fiver (still!).

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:33:59 +0000, Mike Jones wrote (in message ):

It's not obvious - it's always irritated me that Sam Smiths pubs don't stock more of their own beers. I wish they'd stock India Ale and the Melbourn Bros. but I guess their margins aren't good enough.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:06:54 +0000, Brian Debenham wrote (in message ):

Based on your comments I did a quick poll of the MICROBAR owners and some drinkers I know who frequent Beer Circus regularly and MICROBAR occasionally. Together we found that for a "typical Belgian bottle" MICROBAR and Beer Circus's prices were almost identical (which figures as they use the same supplier) and for German bottles Beer Circus was noticeably more expensive. However of the two it is possible to drink the cheapest beer at Beer Circus by drinking draught real ale - MICROBAR doesn't have hand pulled real ale.

I suggest that when you and your friends coppered-up MICROBAR compared unfavourably because a significant number of your peers were on real ale in Beer Circus and also that maybe your view of MICROBAR was tainted by the fact that the old owners and new owners are, to say the least, CAMRA-sceptical.

They had it (Broughton oatmeal stout) at the Bristol beef festival Saturday (very good it was too !) Not much help for you though ;-))

Cheers - Neil