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Vine (Bull And Bladder), The
| Vibe | Quality | Service | Option | Food |
|---|---|---|---|---|
- Contempo
vibe: iv | quality: four.5 | service: 4 | selection: four | nutrient: 3
by BlackHaddock from England
This isn't a pub, it is more than of an institution, loved past locals and travellers alike.
Ever total of life, oftentimes alluvion with characters, this is a serious drinkable place. On one occassion the petty forepart bar, which can hold about twenty people, had an Irish Folk band playing. They were standing on each others heads in at that place, I am sure the floor would have given way, if everyone had danced in tune!
The other rooms are not so much fun, just nevertheless good drinking rooms, just try and get into the little front bar on the right, people will move up for you, they are a friendly bunch and honey to chat to visitors.
Service is fast and friendly, ofttimes with some cheek, no pretty barmaids hither to elevate the punters in, the locals desire someone who can pull a pint!
Batham's beers, obviously cask conditioned, are as you would expect at the brewery tap, ever in splendid condition.
Hot or Cold Pies are what I eat hither, I think in that location is a bigger pick, but I get 'target fixation' on the beer pumps whenever I visit.
A Blackness Country Classic, and long may it be and then.
Jan 12, 2007
vibe: 5 | quality: 4.five | service: four | choice: 4 | nutrient: four
past JohnW from England
At that place is non much I can add to The Long Embankment Bum's review only to ostend his opinions !
A traditional Black State pub unchanged for years, the Bathams Brewery Tap.... local down to earth working grade people with no pretensions. Splendid beers (though I would divert from Long Embankment Bum..I prefer the Bathams Bitter - only simply because I prefer bitter mostly!!)
They simply serve their own beers normally, apart from the usual pretend lagers and Guinness. But that is why you go !!
Some bottled beers from Bathams often bachelor as well.
A small-scale cosy bar full of locals, a smarter lounge and a large room at the dorsum too.
As well a kitchen area just behind the bar, where you can look at the amazing choice of food (mid-twenty-four hour period only) and bespeak to what you want ! From huge steak and kidney pies, cold meats, faggots, curry etc , to sandwiches, and all at give abroad prices.
While in the expanse, you must also walk the "Nine Locks" before going into the pub, to ensure y'all accept a proficient appetite! ( await at local map, just 10 mins walk from the pub)
Another gem in the W Midlands region of England.
Jan xvi, 2003
vibe: five | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | option: 3
past TheLongBeachBum from California
The Vine, or the Balderdash & Bladder, is a legend. Probably one of the least visited, simply most photographed Pubs in England. I take visited this Pub many times; and so often information technology was a 'pit-end' on the style home whilst attending CAMRA Trips to Breweries in the South.W. of England. I also came here when I used to work for a company based in Birmingham - I would pop in before the long drive home to Yorkshire.
What can I say that has not already been scribed about this near famous of Pubs. Well, apart from the fact that this is a genuine example of a Blackness Country Pub, which you must only visit to appreciate a truthful working class drinking surroundings & a throwback to the Industrial Revolution. It is World Famous for its well known frontage, resplendent with its (slightly altered in recent years to more modern English) Shakespeare quotation "Blessing of your heart - you brew good ale" that runs along the top of the two floor painted frontage. But Architecture & the Bard aside, more than chiefly for me, I know the Vine because it is the Batham Brewery Tap, which is on-site. Brewing since 1877 & nevertheless family owned, it is a remnant of older times that someone forgot to shut downwards, and which still thankfully exists. As you walk in at that place are several rooms front & dorsum, the long bar is on your right & runs perpendicular to the street entrance downward a hallway in the Pub. The rooms are all busy with a variety of Brewery items, photo'southward & memorabilia – one thing sticks in my mind is the fact one of the rooms is defended to a branch of the 'Buffalos' from what I remember.
I shudder to recall how much of the fantastically fruity Bathams Mild I have drunk in here over the years. It also sells the Batham'southward Bitter & Thirty (wintertime seasonal). But for my money, the Mild wins hands down, one of the *very* all-time real Black County Milds y'all will ever drink.
Real Ale, due to its short shelf life is commonly sold in nine United kingdom Gallon Casks (Firkins) these days, sometimes 18's (Kilderkins) & perhaps even a 36 (Barrel) every at present & once more. Simply walk to the back of the Pub, into the opened & expanded outside surface area & you may, but may, be extremely lucky to run across & touch a 'Hogshead'. A mighty 54 (U.k.) Gallon Cask; they are quite humungous in size & extremely difficult to handle. Little seen these days for obvious reasons, only such is the popularity & turnover of the Batham's Ales here - that this size Cask is still used.
Mightily impressive Brewery & Pub that time forgot - thankfully.
January 15, 2003
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