Cheers for that - might check it out afterwards. The Railway had Otter on (my favourite Devon ale) when I last visited.
I prefer post-match beers, especially for home or more local games, so it's turn up at the ground for 3pm, maybe just the one at the Railway Bell. (World's End has had a few "Bell Ends" in the past in my experience.)
The ales (and poncey lagers) will certainly taste sweeter with the added garnish (can you garnish beer?) of three points.
Easier in many ways. No sodding trams!
I like a sprig of parsley on my pint of Hoffmeister. Will settle for a win if unavailable.
Hofmeister has been relaunched as a really pukka Bavarian lager by someone who bought the name. I had a bottle at the Dulwich Beer Dispensary a few weeks ago when a sales rep came in with some free samples. I have to say it was superb.
Skol it is then.
Harp.
"When you know lager, you're a Skolar."
"Stays sharp,to the bottom of the glass."
"Works wonders!"
Carling Black Nametag.
Yes. "For great lager, follow the bear". It was dreadful. When I was a barman at the Florence Nightingale at Waterloo we served it. Foster's was the other session lager and we must have sold 4-5 kegs of that to each one of Hofmeister. Two security guards from St Thomas's Hospital came in after their shift and drank about 8 pints each. Barely anyone else touched it.
I got to Banstead Athletic about an hour before kick off once for a Reserve game. As I ordered another pint of Hofmeister, which I was quaffing in my usual quick puss head style, the barman asked if that was my fourth pint. I thought he was going to crack a joke about me being a bit of a puss head, but no... there was a promotion...& after five pints of Hofmeister you got a free T-shirt!
Had many a long session in the Flo, great pub for watching posh people make tits of themselves... along with the archetypal resident pub Jocko! Recall one time I had had a card to record your units during some national safe drinking week nonsense, & vowed to beat the weekly units limit by adding a zero to the end, much of it achieved in the Flo...
I only ever went in there once - on a Thursday night towards the end of its existence and it was almost empty. I worked on the South Bank (we rented the top four floors of the LWT Tower and they had their own bar that we could use.) After that, we’d often decamp to the Hole in the Wall - a bit of a khazi of a pub but I was knocking about with one of the barmaids at that time!
The bear was called George. I never understood why my brother-in-law had a Hofmeister tankard given that he would never have touched the stuff until I found out he shared a name with that bloody bear.
