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scfc64 wrote:I'd have you all around to mine for a big Barbeque ! I know most of you will on your summer holidays in the Seychelles as you all minted but the odd one or two who can't get time off from their high powered banking jobs,I'm pretty sure would come along. I can see it now! It'll be like having family around !!!

Stokey - would love to be there. Tell me though - is it compulsory to wipe your hands on a towel for 30 seconds before picking up the plates each time ?

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

B.G. next time,you have to go to a place in Sussex,(Olgitgooner will know it),called Lewes.There is a Brewery there called Harveys,where they do "tours" and you will be able to drink lots of their ale for free!!!

Rugby Gooner wrote:

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

B.G. next time,you have to go to a place in Sussex,(Olgitgooner will know it),called Lewes.There is a Brewery there called Harveys,where they do "tours" and you will be able to drink lots of their ale for free!!!

top suggestion, mate, cheers!!!

it's a bit early yet, but in a while i'll surely make a thread in the basement asking people for tips on interesting places to visit.

i'm thinking of this crazy idea: as a half decent amateur photographer crazy about the pubs you have over there i'd like to meet as many pubs as i can in those 30 days (something like 100 would be cool ) and take a pic in each of them, have a pint and then make a nice album with all of them, including some words about each.

my dentist won't like to hear those news, though

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

Sad news mate. The brewery in Abingdon, Oxfordshire closed eleven years ago.

Speckled Hen is now brewed at Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk.

They probably still do brewery tours. But it's a long way from London.

Here's a link for you....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morland_Brewery

Update. Here's a link to the new brewery's tours.....

http://www.greeneking.co.uk/gk_guided_tours.htm

And another update. This is for Harveys brewery in Lewes....

http://www.harveys.org.uk/brewerytours.php

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SteveO 35 wrote:

scfc64 wrote:I'd have you all around to mine for a big Barbeque ! I know most of you will on your summer holidays in the Seychelles as you all minted but the odd one or two who can't get time off from their high powered banking jobs,I'm pretty sure would come along. I can see it now! It'll be like having family around !!!

Stokey - would love to be there. Tell me though - is it compulsory to wipe your hands on a towel for 30 seconds before picking up the plates each time ?

Thats Very Good !

Are they the ones who run the oatcake shop in Burslem?

edit. Stokey mentioned his "outside caterers". Then he edited it out.

Which makes my post look like nonsense.

Nothing new there, I know.

olgitgooner wrote:Are they the ones who run the oatcake shop in Burslem?

They are outside caterers who only deal in Barbeques. You must of heard of them,they're always in the news...
Sam and Ella's Home BBQ's. But they do wrap everything in a Oatcake before cooking!

olgitgooner wrote:Are they the ones who run the oatcake shop in Burslem?

edit. Stokey mentioned his "outside caterers". Then he edited it out.

Which makes my post look like nonsense.

Nothing new there, I know.

pressed wrong button!!! sorry,my wife says the same!!

olgitgooner wrote:

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

Sad news mate. The brewery in Abingdon, Oxfordshire closed eleven years ago.

Speckled Hen is now brewed at Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk.

They probably still do brewery tours. But it's a long way from London.

Here's a link for you....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morland_Brewery

Update. Here's a link to the new brewery's tours.....

http://www.greeneking.co.uk/gk_guided_tours.htm

And another update. This is for Harveys brewery in Lewes....

http://www.harveys.org.uk/brewerytours.php

cheers, olgit!!!

no problem with it being far from london. i intend to go from ben nevis to cornwall this time around, so no problems in stoping along the way to drink my favourite ale and meet the brewery.

edit: (just looked for suffolk on the map, and it really is a bit too far east. is there something else worth visiting in the area?)

Flash you'd thank me for this!

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote:

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

Sad news mate. The brewery in Abingdon, Oxfordshire closed eleven years ago.

Speckled Hen is now brewed at Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk.

They probably still do brewery tours. But it's a long way from London.

Here's a link for you....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morland_Brewery

Update. Here's a link to the new brewery's tours.....

http://www.greeneking.co.uk/gk_guided_tours.htm

And another update. This is for Harveys brewery in Lewes....

http://www.harveys.org.uk/brewerytours.php

cheers, olgit!!!

no problem with it being far from london. i intend to go from ben nevis to cornwall this time around, so no problems in stoping along the way to drink my favourite ale and meet the brewery.

edit: (just looked for suffolk on the map, and it really is a bit too far east. is there something else worth visiting in the area?)

Why not do a tour of Fuller's Brewery?

Chiswick Bitter and Discovery are good beers.

http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=9

QuartzGooner wrote:

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote:

brazilianGOONER wrote:

olgitgooner wrote: You remember my visit to the brewery of your favourite beer? when I drank Speckled Hen for free? It was bloody lovely.

i do, just not sure if i thank you for sharing that fact or if i hate you because of making me envy you

where is it, olgit? i'm coming back to the UK next march, and this time i'll spend a month traveling on your beautiful isles so i'll make sure to stop there for a few pints as well

Sad news mate. The brewery in Abingdon, Oxfordshire closed eleven years ago.

Speckled Hen is now brewed at Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk.

They probably still do brewery tours. But it's a long way from London.

Here's a link for you....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morland_Brewery

Update. Here's a link to the new brewery's tours.....

http://www.greeneking.co.uk/gk_guided_tours.htm

And another update. This is for Harveys brewery in Lewes....

http://www.harveys.org.uk/brewerytours.php

cheers, olgit!!!

no problem with it being far from london. i intend to go from ben nevis to cornwall this time around, so no problems in stoping along the way to drink my favourite ale and meet the brewery.

edit: (just looked for suffolk on the map, and it really is a bit too far east. is there something else worth visiting in the area?)

Why not do a tour of Fuller's Brewery?

Chiswick Bitter and Discovery are good beers.

http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=9

i am a HUGE fan of fullers, quartz. their IPA is one of my favourite ales. i intend to stay one night on one of those "fullers inn" if i'm not mistaken there are quite a few in england, anyone ever been to one of those?