York Pub Explorations
Our list of York pubs to visit was rather un-sensibly long.
The kind of list that has Mrs Prop Up the Bar declaring that we need a 2-week detox afterwards.
I'm not gonna try and cover everywhere we went - it would drag on and on and get vaguer and vaguer - strange how I have such little memory of the pubs visited after our beers in the House of Trembling Madness...
So here goes with a selective few, starting with the Brew York tap...
Brew York Tap (Unit 6, Enterprise Complex, Walmgate, York, YO1 9TT - web)
I suspect I made a bit of mistake here when confronted with the choice of sitting inside or out. You just know that sitting outdoors in nice weather next to the River Foss was the sensible option, but I kinda wanted to see the beer hall.
This is located in an old maltings, a large, high-roofed first floor room with lots of seating and street-art murals adorning the walls.
I bet it's buzzing when it's busy, but mid-afternoon on a glorious day when everyone's outside there were a grand total of 6 people in the big room.
Mrs PropUptheBar picked the real stunner on the beer list, which I promptly stole from her. The cask 'Honey I Shrunk the Impys' was an oatmeal stout which packed all the flavour of those double-figure ABV imperial stouts, whilst keeping it sensible at 5.4%. Wonderful stuff!
Onward, to a couple of traditional boozers, starting with the York CAMRA 2020 pub of the year...
I suspect I made a bit of mistake here when confronted with the choice of sitting inside or out. You just know that sitting outdoors in nice weather next to the River Foss was the sensible option, but I kinda wanted to see the beer hall.
This is located in an old maltings, a large, high-roofed first floor room with lots of seating and street-art murals adorning the walls.
I bet it's buzzing when it's busy, but mid-afternoon on a glorious day when everyone's outside there were a grand total of 6 people in the big room.
Mrs PropUptheBar picked the real stunner on the beer list, which I promptly stole from her. The cask 'Honey I Shrunk the Impys' was an oatmeal stout which packed all the flavour of those double-figure ABV imperial stouts, whilst keeping it sensible at 5.4%. Wonderful stuff!
Onward, to a couple of traditional boozers, starting with the York CAMRA 2020 pub of the year...
Slip Inn (Clementhorpe, YO23 1AN)
This community local is just down the road from the heritage-listed Swan, covered in the previous post.
It's a lovely pub with two main rooms, a snug to the side and a patio to the rear.
Beers available on our visit came from Grey Trees, Abbeydale, Leeds Brewery and Rudgate, plus my pick, the Great Newsome 'Holderness Dark'.
A lovely pint, in a wonderful, comfortable, laid back boozer.
This community local is just down the road from the heritage-listed Swan, covered in the previous post.
It's a lovely pub with two main rooms, a snug to the side and a patio to the rear.
Beers available on our visit came from Grey Trees, Abbeydale, Leeds Brewery and Rudgate, plus my pick, the Great Newsome 'Holderness Dark'.
A lovely pint, in a wonderful, comfortable, laid back boozer.
Located next to southerly parts of the city walls by Fishergate, we'd passed the Phoenix on our previous days wall-walking.
The Phoenix (75 George Street, York, YO1 9PT - web)
I went to this fantastic York Heritage Pub and all I brought you was this lousy picture...
I went to this fantastic York Heritage Pub and all I brought you was this lousy picture...
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| Proper pub stools, piano, facemask and dog's backside |
Take a look at the Heritage Site for some pictures of what makes it special inside.
We visited prior to restrictions being lifted, so were stuck on a table in the back corner, by an out-of-use bar billiards table with piles of junk on top of it.
This is somewhere I'd like to revisit and be able to stroll around and pick my own seat. I couldn't resist including it here because I'd got that lovely blue-sky picture of the pub.
Somewhere else I wanted to visit was the Market Tap, a joint venture by Thornbridge Brewery and Euro importers Pivovar UK.
Pivovar was what stuck in my mind...
So when I saw "Pivni" it seemed close enough.
Hence, this is the one that we went in by mistake...
We visited prior to restrictions being lifted, so were stuck on a table in the back corner, by an out-of-use bar billiards table with piles of junk on top of it.
This is somewhere I'd like to revisit and be able to stroll around and pick my own seat. I couldn't resist including it here because I'd got that lovely blue-sky picture of the pub.
Somewhere else I wanted to visit was the Market Tap, a joint venture by Thornbridge Brewery and Euro importers Pivovar UK.
Pivovar was what stuck in my mind...
So when I saw "Pivni" it seemed close enough.
Hence, this is the one that we went in by mistake...
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| Sunglasses couple on the far table are the first to suss how suspicious I am |
Pivni (6 Patrick Pool, York, YO1 8BB - web)
Nice tudor-fronted building though - olde worle style ground floor bar with lots of hops hanging from the wooden beams - and a decent ale from Bristol Beer Factory.
"So it's the wrong pub... well that's a pint we didn't need," said Mrs PropUptheBar, fully capturing the joys of pub ticking.
The Market Cat was just a few minutes walk away, craftily hidden behind a man and his pictures...
Nice tudor-fronted building though - olde worle style ground floor bar with lots of hops hanging from the wooden beams - and a decent ale from Bristol Beer Factory.
"So it's the wrong pub... well that's a pint we didn't need," said Mrs PropUptheBar, fully capturing the joys of pub ticking.
The Market Cat was just a few minutes walk away, craftily hidden behind a man and his pictures...
This bar opened at the tail-end of 2018, in a three-storey building previously occupied by pawnbrokers Herbert Brown & Son.
We grabbed a seat by the open windows on the ground floor, with the grand mahogany bar in front of us. Among the fine Thornbridge ales on offer there are also a number of guests, one of which - Atom 'Dark Matter' chocolate stout - was my pick. And very nice it was too.
But this does also give you the chance to look at the cellar (if we're still allowed to call it that when it's at the top of the building?), all the casks visible behind a glass screen.
On the way back down, I stopped to take a picture of the pretty marvelous vista from the first floor tables, looking out over the market.
For the final bar in this post, I'm going full-on craft...
House of Trembling Madness (48 Stonegate, York, YO1 8AS - web)
You can tell from the exterior that this is a pretty impressive place. It's a Georgian townhouse, renovated a few years back to create a "craft beer mansion".
The beer list was long and spectacular, with the staff proving helpful to assist our picking.
Here's what I ended up with:
Old Chimneys 'Good King Henry' 10% Russian imperial stout
Cloudwater 'Reign or Shine' 6.2% stout
Whiplash Brewery 'Velouria' 8.2% imperial IPA
Yep, stupidly strong one, Cloudwater one, and the one named after a Pixies track.
All the beers were great, as were our surroundings in the wonderful quirky ground floor room.
The House of Trembling Madness provided a touch of class to my on-going series of smut found in gent's bathrooms...
Here's what I ended up with:
Old Chimneys 'Good King Henry' 10% Russian imperial stout
Cloudwater 'Reign or Shine' 6.2% stout
Whiplash Brewery 'Velouria' 8.2% imperial IPA
Yep, stupidly strong one, Cloudwater one, and the one named after a Pixies track.
All the beers were great, as were our surroundings in the wonderful quirky ground floor room.
The House of Trembling Madness provided a touch of class to my on-going series of smut found in gent's bathrooms...
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| Cultured smut |
We were spoilt in York - fantastic weather; great quality and great choice of beers; heritage pubs and modern craft bars...
I'll leave you with an evening view across the River Ouse...
Cheers! 🍻
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