Friday, 19 July 2019

Twisted Barrel Centennial at the Windmill, Coventry


There’s quite a hive of activity on the street of the oldest pub in Coventry. We’re surrounded by beautiful merchant’s buildings and black cabs are regularly dropping off local hotties for their nightly city crawl. Inside, I pass a corridor with two low beamed timber rooms branching off either side. One’s full of tables and chairs while the other’s a sitting room. Then I pass the bar to take a glance at this beer festival. There’s not much left. A row of stillaging just shows two or three beers remaining. I grab a couple of pints then head back outside to join some friends who have commandeered a spot outside where we make use of their table and watch others arrive. For my next pint I head to the bar which has a bit of an attraction in itself as the beers look more inviting; while pub-crawlers are readily coming and going in their quest to tick off as many city pubs as possible. Suddenly we realise we’ve got to get a jaunt on if we’re to make our last train back, but we somehow manage to hail down a hackney cab to round everyone up.

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