Don't Forget To Read The Clothes Peg

I need a lie down

Middlesbrough 1 v Sheffield United 0

The Championship

Wednesday 23 October 2024

SUFC 2024/25 Game #23

Sometimes. One of the seven regular readers of my Blog bollocks me for lateness. Blogging days after games. Indeed, even Blogging after subsequent games have been played. I don't have an excuse. But I do have an explanation.

My Blog is over ten years old/long. I was a young(er) man when I started it. I'm now an Old Man. On days when I'm not at a game, I need a fucking lie down. Nowadays, I can only write Blogs on non-match days and non-lie-down days!!!

As it happens this very point came up on the Blue Sky Day when the Carrier Bag Firm first visited Global Blogging Inc. all those years ago. GBI were interested in cementing our position as the Pre-Eminent Parody Football Firm On The Entire Internet. But, Global Blogging Inc were, rightly, concerned what direction the Blogs would take once we got Old, Tired, and Fucking Bored Shitless with the whole fandango.

No drama. If we're late Blogging a game, we'll just fall back on Blogging about the Bar, and the Beer. Pretend the game never happened…

So. Today's Blog, on the way to somewhere or other, finds us in the welcoming arms of;

Stumble Inn

4 Garthway Arcade, Northallerton DL7 8NS

Our timings meant we witnessed a Master of his Trade at work. The shopfront, single room, Micropub was a one man affair this afts. The Carrier Bag Firm were basically first in as he was opening up. So, every beer we ordered was essentially the first time that beer had been ordered that day. I don't know if it was deliberate. But, he could see which beers hadn't been pulled yet. Because there wouldn't be a Nozzle on the Keg tap. Nor a Sparkler (or similar) on the Cask handpull.

For each yet to be supped, he'd Nozzle Up. Pull a good half pint through into a pint pot. Hold it up. Look through it. Look round it. Look under it. And drink it. Only then, if it passed all his tests, would he serve it. Superb. I assume all that should really be standard practice. And I'm here to Testify. The CBF often get in pubs just as they are opening. And we rarely see that attention to detail.

In other, disastrous, news. He's fucking sold The Stumble Inn. This was his last week. FFS.

Four on Cask. Four on Keg. One went off. And he just multitasked his way through putting another one on and continuing to serve everyone in what was now a busy pub.

Wilde Child Brewing Co. (Leeds), Uncontrollable Occurrence, Hazy Pale Ale on Cask at 4.8%

Incidentally, there was MUCH argument about the pictured Pumpclip. On closer inspection, you will see a Clothes Peg attached. Said clothes peg has HAZY written on it. The implication being;

If you order it, and then complain it's cloudy, you have no legal redress, because …. Clothes Peg.

Believe me. We have checked with the Carrier Bag Firm Legal Department. That will not fucking stand up in Court. There is no mention of a Clothes Peg Clause anywhere in the Legal Code. Except in Scotland.

Double Dry Hopped. Amarillo & Vic Secret. Very smooth in a liquidised Swiss Muesli way. Bang full of Hops. Superb.

Bayonet Brewing (Northallerton), Delta Lima Six, Hazy Pale Ale on Keg at 4%

Another Double Dry Hopped. Citra and British Harlequin.

You know the drill. United got beat. The Blog is late. The Blog is Beer. NFDR. No Football Don't Read.

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