Well I said I wasn’t going to watch it, and I didn’t, I was down the pub.
But the calling of the Harvey’s Best Bitter was the only call I answered.
A sympathetic response m’lord. I spent a weekend in Sussex recently and visited 3 pubs for a pint of bitter. One didn’t have any on draught and the other two only Harveys, who seem to have a monopoly round there. The head barely lasted back to the table! Can’t you petition for some John Smiths or Boddingtons and give yourself and others a treat?
The thing is that Harvey’s gets better the closer you get to it’s brewery in Lewes. Also it has to be looked after properly.
If you were to visit Brighton itself, you would find many different real ales. The Stag in Kemptown is a nice free house that has regular guest beers. Landlords is worth a try.
The other thing worth mentioning is that the nozzles on real ale pumps are generally much looser down here, so you never get a frothy head on the beer.
