The Dark Ale beer festival at the White Horse Inn in Ridgewell, just north of Halstead, looked like it might slip by without my attendance, but I managed a quick half hour and two cheeky halves today. The pub is in the Good Beer Guide, and is one of the few to always have a [...]
We thought we’d drop into Battlesbridge today for a quick look around, as it wasn’t somewhere we’d been to before. We ended up spending a lot more time there than planned, and had a great, if light, lunch at The Barge Inn. The Barge Inn is a lovely old pub, very nicely presented inside. Whilst [...]
It was a very grey and drizzly afternoon in Harwich, fortunately we were there to visit a couple of pubs rather than to do some outdoor sightseeing. The Alma Inn was holding a film and real ale festival, and that seemed a good enough reason to visit Harwich for the first time in several years. [...]
A rare work visit to Grays this morning gave me the chance to pop in to a couple of their highly-regarded CAMRA Good Beer Guide listed pubs. My plan to visit all pubs listed in the Colchester and NE Essex Good Beer Guide appears to have broadened its scope… Within a 100 yards of each [...]
The Lamarsh Lion is in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide, noted for its beamed interior, and its view over the Stour Valley. It was originally a boar lodge called Brownings, and became an inn in 1305. Well, it was a misty day today, so the view wasn’t the greatest, but the pub, the beer and [...]
Heading back home from Hylands House in Chelmsford this afternoon, we decided a Sunday roast would hit the spot nicely. But how to find a pub who served food all through the afternoon? Fear not, gentle reader, as I had come equipped with the Chelmsford CAMRA booklet ‘Where to find the best real ale in [...]
I had a trip out today to Chelmsford and fitted in three things I’d been looking forward to for some time : visiting the Chelmsford Museum to see it’s new extension; visiting the 12th Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival; and visiting a couple of Good Beer Guide listed Chelmsford pubs. I’ll report back on the museum [...]
The Hare and Hounds is under new ownership since this article was written, and we’ve visited and the new menu is a huge improvement on the one we reported in this article. So to make sure there’s no confusion, we’ve removed the content in this article about the old menu - click here for the [...]
The Old Queen’s Head in Aldham is in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide, and we popped in for a quick half before xmas prior to a bit of Christmas shopping at the nearby Mill Race Nursery and then picking up our christmas tree from Bullbank Farm. This Saturday we popped in for a meal. The [...]
For a final bit of exercise on this last day of the festive break we headed to Maldon. It’s been a favourite of ours since we first moved to Essex almost 30 years ago, when we lived briefly in Danbury, and Maldon was the nearest town. Promenade Park is a good place to start, and [...]
