Passport to Pitney

Last night myself and the usual Ale crowd went out for our April get together. This time it was Andy G's turn to drive, and of course to sample the delights of J2O's and Coke.
We started at the Canal Inn at Wrantage with Sharp's Cornish Coaster, a very smooth and drinkable beer at 3.6%. This month and next Somerset CAMRA are running their 10th Pub Trail Passport with 43 Pubs to be visited and stamped in your passport. If you visit 15 pubs you get a T Shirt and for 25 pubs a T Shirt and book token.

With the Canal duly stamped we headed for the Royal Oak at Stoke St Gregory, which although wasn't one of the passport pubs did serve a very good pint of St. Austell's Proper Job at 4.5%.
We now made our way to The King Alfred at Burrowbridge, which nestles under the shadow of Burrow Mump, a natural 24m hill with an 18th century church tower on the top.

Burrow Mump

This pub has just been named Somerset CAMRA pub of the season and is due to receive its award tonight (28th April). Tonight though the pub was very busy and had a good selection of ales on. I started here with Glastonbury Ales Spring Loaded at 4.2% ,a clean and crisp ale with hints of citrus. We decided to stay for another here and this time chose an old favourite in Yeovil Ales Ruby also at 4.2%.
After a brief discussion on where to go next we plumped for the George Inn at Middlezoy and here I had a Teignworthy 'Beachcomber' , a refreshing grapefruit tasting hoppy ale at 4.5%.
Time was now getting on and we were keen to get another pub before closing time. The Pound Inn at Aller was the destination but upon arrival we were dismayed to see it was shut. We then made a dash for everybody's favourite the Halfway House at Pitney, and were relieved to see them still open.
This pub has in the past been the Somerset CAMRA pub of the year and with good reason too. There were 10 ales on and 6 ciders. I was pleased to see that they had a stout on and I went for Hopback's Entire Stout at 4.5% , a beer I had tried last week at Newton Abbot. I then finished the evening with another Hopback beer in G.F.B ( Gilberts First Brew) which is a great session beer at 3.9%.
So that was Aprils outing with Five Pubs visited , seven beers tried and four stamps in my passport, Roll on next month.