wheresthepath
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Setting - 8 | Selection - 8 | Service - 7 | Food - | Value - 7 | Overall - 9
Visited on a Wednesday evening in September 2025. It was fresher's week, and every pub in town was over-run with students enjoying their first taste of freedom (and no doubt regretting it the next morning!). Except for this one. This was a rare haven of tranquility amongst the tumult. Hidden away down a steep, narrow alleyway, it offers 4 cask, 8 keg, and 4 BIAB ciders, all on rotation. About half of them were from local micros on our visit (although only one from Magpie, so maybe the relationship with them mentioned by a previous reviewer has ended?). The rest are from craft brewers across the country. Good indie music was playing, at the right level to allow easy conversation. We relaxed in wingback armchairs and let the stresses of the world drain away - it felt like that sort of place. The barman was friendly enough albeit not overly chatty, the beers were in good nick and the prices were reasonable. I liked it a lot; I'd definitely go back if I was in Nottingham again.
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Setting - 6 | Selection - 5 | Service - 7 | Food - 5 | Value - 9 | Overall - 6
Visited April 2025. Stopped in for a bite to eat (and a beer of course!) mid-afternoon on a Thursday. In appearance it's a bog standard medium-sized 'Spoons. 9 casks on when I visited, with East London brewery as the local option, There's a conservatory and what looked like a pleasant patio garden. Due to the time of our visit it was pretty quiet but the clientele who were there were definitely on the rough side. Service was swift and friendly. It was ok on our visit but maybe not somewhere to visit at the busier times of the week? If you're in the area, then it's worth having a stroll around the nearby Abbey Park cemetery, one of London's "magnificent seven" cemeteries which has reverted to nature and is a lovely, tranquil (if rather spooky) stroll.
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located in Stoke Newington, England
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located in Birmingham, England
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wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Blue Girl (4.5%) from Jebsen Beer 2 weeks ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4
Bottle at 4.5% from Seoul Plaza, Reading. Label suggests this is now contract-brewed at Tsing-Tao. Far Eastern lager-off: South Korea (Terra) vs Hong Kong (Blue Girl). Bronze-gold with a negligible white head. Sweetish, with sweetcorn, caramel, vanilla and malt and just a hint of metallic dust. Thin, prickly fizz. Pretty poor, but on balance this just edges it over the Korean brew as I prefer the malty hints of this to the slightly unpleasant hoppy hints of the Terra.
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wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Terra from HiteJinro 2 weeks ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle from Seoul Plaza, Reading. Far Eastern lager-off: South Korea (Terra) vs Hong Kong (Blue Girl). Gold with a white head. Unpleasant aroma of urine and green leaves. Taste is a little better - there's some honey with a mild leafy hop note. It is, however, thin and watery and far too fizzy. Overall - it's not totally Terra-ble (sorry!), but it's still pretty poor. It's definitely got a hint of hops to it, but they're not a hop flavour that I like. For me, the Hong Kong Blue Girl was marginally better.
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brewed by Scarborough
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brewed by Celt Brewing (formerly Celt Experience)
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