Ale Trail

This evening I was going on the Pub Passport trail again and Andy duly arrived to pick me up at 7pm. We headed first towards Barton St David pausing for twenty minutes or so near Somerton to listen for Quail. No luck so we headed on to the Barton Inn.

Yet another unusal Pub sign

Here we both had a Teignworthy 'Neap Tide' at 3.9% served from a cask on the bar. It was an OK start to the evening as a good session beer.
We the went onto the Halfway House at Pitney. As usual the car park and beer garden was full. its a great example of what a community pub can achieve. There were the 10 ales on and we both went for a Thriller Porter at 5.0%, who made it, I forgot to ask ! but it was a good ale. We could have stayed sat in the garden all night but I needed stickers so we moved on to Eli's, The Rose and Crown at Huish Episcopi. This a classic pub with no bar but a flagstone floored open servery where you just wander in and order.

Eli's

 

 

Here I chose a Cheddar Ales 'Potholer' at 4.5% , Andy was on the dreaded J2O's by now. This is another example of a great community pub and again the pub garden was full.
We then decided to try one more pub on our way home and went to give the Devonshire Arms in Long Sutton another try. We last went here a few months ago and were given Moor Peat Porter at a sub-zero temperature and at £3.70 per pint ! Not impressed.
This time however although the prices are still high the beer was good. I went for another Moor beer with Revival at 3.8% and served at the correct temperature from I guess a cask out the back it was a really refreshing hoppy beer and a good way to end the night.
And the Pub Trail, Well I've now qualified for the T Shirt with 17 stickers (you needed 15) and am thinking about going for the book token, Well there are 2 weeks left !