The Masters Lounge

[Wheeze]

The traffic lights on the A470 at Talerddig are scheduled to be removed this coming Friday. To mark the occasion, I have contacted Brains in Cardiff to ask them for a special delivery of SA and Dark stout on Saturday so we can celebrate the selection of the Lions team. The Red Lion owners have allowed us to set up a special bar and have an extension till way past my bedtime. Anyone passing through is more than welcome to drop in. There will be a free pint to everyone for each Welsh Player that makes the team....I'm not expecting to give away much!

[molehill]

Couple of pints of SA it is then 👍, be great if the boys got a run out in a test (is that more free beer on your tab 🍺)?

How we have fallen in such a short time,chickens coming home to roost etc. Onwards and upwards.

[mr brightside]

Brains? Who are they?

[Travs]

Brains? Who are they?

MrB i did the Mow Cop Killer Mile last night..... would've been right up your street with your Carr Bridge Drive reps...... mile road race uphill, ave gradient 11%, max gradient 25%..... absolutely gruesome.

[Wheeze]

Wikipedia says: Brains (S. A. Brain & Company Ltd.) is a regional brewery based in Cardiff, Wales. It was founded in 1882 by Samuel Arthur Brain.[1] At its peak, the company controlled more than 250 pubs in South Wales (particularly in Cardiff), Mid Wales and the West Country.

I say: Brains beer is worth tracking down if you enjoy a good heady ale. SA is creamy with a sharp aftertaste. If you like your dark Ales, Brains Dark is well worth tracking down. Quite rare to find it now but, back in the day, a well kept pint of Dark could rival Guiness for a tasty, chewy drink.

[Llani Boy]

Around 10 years ago I went on a stag do pub crawl in Dronfield, NE Derbyshire. I couldn't believe my luck when the first pub we went in , The Sidings, had Brains Dark Mild on offer at 50p a pint.
Apparently they had had a beer festival the previous weekend and had a barrel and a half left over.

Needless to say we crawled no further than The Sidings and I made a few converts of people who had never tasted Dark Mild. As Wheeze says, delicious stuff if kept well.

[Llani Boy]

Whilst on the subject of brains I remember eating Brains pork faggots in gravy. They were delicious and made by a butcher in Bristol.

As Cardiff and Bristol are not far away from each other I wonder if he was related to the Brains brewer?. Having said that, Bristol was a lot further away from Cardiff before the Severn Bridge was built, unless you were a good swimmer!

They are still available as Mr Brains faggots but no longer a family concern.