The next pub (and final one for me, I can’t be doing partying until the early hours) was the Rock, which is part of the Brewhouse & Kitchen chain.
The beer selection, although this didn’t seem to entirely tie up with the range on the actual bar. The selection of beers was very reasonable and cut nicely across the beer styles, although the prices were a little towards the high end of the scale.
I rather liked the design of these keg lines.
The beer tap toilets.
This is the Waterbeach Weisse Mango & Passion Fruit from Pastore which is incredibly tart, but the flavours were agreeable. Pastore are known for their tart sours, so this was as I expected it to be. Nathan went for the Party Bag from Queer Brewing which I can’t say was the greatest beer that I’ve had. Although I read Nathan’s Untappd review and full marks for getting the words/phrases of “furniture polish”, “methylated”, “tricky”, “terrible” and “pomegranate” into the same description and after he’d had numerous drinks.
Full credit to Nathan for being so supple to get in this position so quickly. He might be over 30 now, but he’s still got the moves. Note his shirt as well, it’s him that got me my Goose Island addiction and I still think they’re the best brewery in the world. I fancy another Chicago trip, but I digress….
We were going to stay a little later, but the venue was closing early and so the heavy drinkers amongst the group (I won’t name him as I’m discreet like that) had to drink up quickly. There was the suggestion from one of our party that perhaps the doorman could go and speed up the other customers to give us a few more minutes, but it quickly transpired that we were the only customers let.
I rather liked this venue, they didn’t have music blaring out and it was a clean and comfortable environment. A slight shame they didn’t open a little later, but the team members were friendly and engaging, so it felt like a welcoming venue. They serve food during the day before catering for the late-night crowd (late-night as in most customers, not Oscar) and I’d merrily go here again.