Canny Bevvy

Joined : 28 Dec 2006 Posts : 23 Localisation : the toon

NEWCASTLE ARMS, 57 ST. ANDREWS STREET, NE1 5SE, (0191) 2602490
Thu 7th -Sun 10th Feb 2008 (Enq. www.newcastlearms.co.uk)

Dear beer lovers, here is the official list for our forthcoming beer fest. We shall have a temporary bar set up across the bay window with 6 additional hand-pulls and will therefore have the capacity to dispense 12 real ales at all times. Look forward to seeing you all!!!

To accomodate the unlucky ba*tard that has drawn the short straw as designated driver, we also have an extensive range of soft drinks available across the bar.

3 RIVERS - Yummy Figgy Pudding 7.5
BIG LAMP - Bitter 3.8
BOGGART - Bitta This 3.6, Natalis 4.0
BREW DOG - Storm 8.0
BULL LANE - Terry's All Gold 4.2
BURTON BRIDGE - Thomas Syke's Old Ale 10.0
CORVEDALE - Catch Me If You Can 4.0
DURHAM - Temtation 10.0
EMPIRE - Bellrock Gold 4.2
FUGELESTAU - Red Centennial 3.5, Hercules
FULLERS - London Porter 5.4, Winter Ale 4.8
GRAFTON - Packet I.P.A. 5.2
GREEN MILL - Wheat 4.0
HIGHLAND BREWING Co. - Dark Monro 4.0
HOPSTAR - Winter's Ale 4.2
IDLE - Boggin 3.8
LEYDEN - Silent Night 4.2
LITTLE VALLEY - Red Dyke 3.9
MARBLE - JP Best 4.3, Stouter Stout 4.7
NAYLOR'S - Old Ale 6.2
NORTHERN - Deep Dark Secret 5.2
OAKHAM - Black Hole Porter 5.5
ORKNEY - Best 3.8
PICTISH - Cluster 4.1
PLASSEY - Twm Tatws 4.0
PURPLE MOOSE - Dark Side of the Moose 4.6
PROSPECT - Pick Axe Porter 5.0
RUDGATE - Spear 4.0
SALAMANDER - Jester 4.0, Rocket 5.0
SALTAIRE - Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4.5
SHAWS - ?? Pike 4.0
SHEFFIELD - Winter Rose 5.4
SOUTHPORT - Carousel 4.0
SPIRE - Knights in White Satin 4.8, Sgt. Pepper's Stout 5.5,
Dark Side of the Moon 4.3
SPITTING FEATHERS - Old Wavertonian 4.4
THORNBRIDGE - Jaipur 5.9
YORKSHIRE DALES - Yorkshire Golden 4.0

THERE WILL BE AT LEAST 2 CIDERS/PERRY'S AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES
PLEASE ASK AT THE BAR FOR DETAILS.

Dropping like flies.....
First casulty Pictish Cluster 4.1% went off last night just after ten.

Any desperardo tickers in the area please note that Galway Hooker is on in the Clunny. Fransican Well Shannon Stout is also lurking in the cellar there but wasn't on last night.

Joined : 22 Apr 2007 Posts : 23

Hercules was another casualty early in the night.

Cheers go out to Neil, Barry and the crew for a great evening!

Cheers

Andy

Seems to me to be a hit this one. I've managed to sample, quaff and even not remember some of the 17 I have tried up to now. Well done to all involved in this festival. May it continue too.

Joined : 25 Nov 2007 Posts : 23

Well done to all at the Newcastle Arms. Neil and his backroom staff are doing much better at managing the Top Toon Pub, compared to King Kev and Terry Mc Dermott (the BBC man!!! - That stands for balls, bibs and cones by the way) at the alleged Top Toon Team.

Popped in yesterday, and had a great couple of hours, and a few good halves of fine beer and stout. It was a great atmosphere and everyone I spoke to said it was a great affair.

Tried some Temptation before heading off into the sunset of the Bigg Market and resisting the invites of some scantilly clad nubile young ladies trying to lure us into dens of iniquity. The offers where very good though, and I think Neil needs take a leaf out of their books.

The idea of three shots and a mixer for a quid, and the delightful idea of drinking it in a darkened room with "topless totty" does hold strange appeal. You will be pleased to know I settled for a kebab instead and wandered off into the limelight for my train.

What brought me to this chioce you ask, well..........
I simply thought of all of the staff at the Newcastle Arms serving fine real ales with their tops off, and the kebab seemed the obvious option.

Cheers guys, a great festival. Northern Brewer.

All I can say is. . . What a weekend that was. Got through quite a few on the final day. Also managed to sample the perry and cider. Must have lost it after that but still got up for the usual shift at work today. Well done to the team once again. And also to the suppliers. Without them we wouldn't have had a festival. 3 cheers and a few more beers to the next one.