Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ Friday day off 2. The Holy Tavern
First pub proper, The Holy Tavern, which used to be known as The Jerusalem Tavern. I'd been before a long long time ago. Good pub, good beer! The other friends were already there waiting for us and had started on the St Peter's Best Bitter, so we continued.
This pub used to be owned (or leased) by St Peter's brewery (the one with the odd shaped bottles) but the landlord of the building decided to run it themselves, while still keeping the St Peter's beers. They're just not tied to them so had another brew on too. We did sample the other beers, the barman was very helpful here, there was a citrus ale and another real ale, but we all went back to the best bitter. It was the best.
I didn't get a photo of this place on the way in, as a big delivery van was parked across the front, and then I forgot at the end. I did take a picture of these Jack The Ripper newspapers they had on the wall. Not sure why they had them, this place has no connection with the ripper murders, it's not even that old as a pub. Not as old as it looked, we heard it was opened in 1996. It's a old building though, a nice spot. So the pub is from the 1990s, and the building is from the 1700s, so they've settled on a slightly fake 1800s theme for the interior. You could believe it was entirely genuine though, it's not at all tacky.
We sat here for a while but I sensibly had halves after the first pint.