The new Ladywell Tavern has been done out in the style of the boozers of Crofton Park, but has been done so without the expected ethnic cleansing of the locals, which is welcome.
I have been there more times in the past month than in the past two years, and I have been impressed by the more extensive range of drink. I will go again, and more frequently.
I'm especially pleased to see bottles of Thatchers, one of the food and drink highlights of the West Country.
Sadly, to get Thatchers into a London pub it has to market itself to a demographic who, in the past few years, have been browbeaten into thinking that it is somehow normal to serve cider with ice. This is not a normal activity, and people who put ice in cider should live in shame.
More worryingly, the Thatchers' brand in question is 'Pear Cider' - a nice tipple, but as anyone with half a brain will tell you there is no such thing. Fermented pear juice is 'perry'. You might as well call beer 'hops wine'.
Great to see Thatchers in this neck of the woods - sad to see it can't be here on its own terms.
I will probably blog at length about this bizarre prejudice in the future, but for now, I draw your attention to the Facebook group.
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Quite right about cider and ice, I think it's a plot to make you think you get more cider out of the bottle by displacing it with ice.
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