31/05/2010

Beer Festival at The Who'd Have Thought It in Milton Comb 29th-31st May 2010. A good range of well kept beers where to be found in the centre room on a busy bank holiday Monday. All casks where cooled by evaporation and offered up Draught Bass; Otter Ale; Exmoor; Gold; St Austell Tun 50, Black Prince, Tribute, and Proper Job; and Skinners Pheasant Plucker. Also from the bar were Dartmoor Legend; RCH Old Slug Porter and Teignworthy Martha's Mild. The half pint glasses, with pheasant logo, where sold in aid of Dartmoor Rescue and enabled a discounted price on beer purchases.

22/05/10

On Saturday 22 May, a lovely early summer day, a group of us travelled to Spreyton and spent an enjoyable lunchtime in the beer garden of the Tom Cobley. On the way back to Plymouth we called at the Taw River in Sticklepath and back within our branch area, the Mary Tavy Inn and the Royal Oak at Meavy. We have been fortunate enough to visit some of our outlying pubs by minibus on very pleasant summer evenings recently. On Wednesday 2 June we visited the Royal Inn at Horsebridge, the Edgcumbe Arms at Milton Abbot and the Blacksmiths Arms at Lamerton. On Wednesday 16 June we headed off to the South Hams, enjoying the beer gardens behind the Royal Oak at Bigbury and the Journey’s End at Ringmore and the bars of the Dolphin at Kingston and Modbury Inn.