Black Country Ales

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

following on from another thread,

I thought this was worthy of a thread if it’s own, and we can never have enough threads about boozers 

 

Black Country Ales have something close to 50 pubs now 👍

They took over the Prince of Wales in Birmingham, I’ve mixed feelings about that, but I think I like it. 
 

I don’t normally ‘do’ chains but these are all right. In this time of the decline of the pub they’re doing a cracking top job keeping the traditional pub going. 
 

Well kept Beer is usually a choice from a dozen flavours and all (I think) under £4 including the over 5%ers and the cobs are as big as your head. 
They seem to be busy most of the time. 

(there’s apparently one in Tipton I need to find)

 

anyone else use them?

or avoid them?

 

 

[dmr]

Were you with us when we had to negotiate for twenty minutes to get the dog into the Black Country Arms in Walsall?

It was a while ago and is all a bit of a blurr 😀.

My daughter who is/was a teacher has accidentally become a landlady, I was trying to persuade her to move from Bristol to the Black Country to get a proper pub.😀

 

If you look at their website they are looking for people to run their pubs, they say doing food is optional but cobs are a required essential.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Yes, it was when we were on the BCN Explorer in 2013.

We had a ramble in to town. 
I remember they were dead friendly and you had a Cury in there.

The Black Country Ale pubs I’ve been in since are dog friendly. 

[dmr]

14 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Yes, it was when we were on the BCN Explorer in 2013.

We had a ramble in to town. 
I remember they were dead friendly and you had a Cury in there.

The Black Country Ale pubs I’ve been in since are dog friendly. 

 

Ten years ago!

We had a good veggy curry for not much money at all.

I remember a plan to start at one end of the bar and work along through the handpumps, but failing dismally.

We had to give the landlady a detailed description of the dog, via her daughter, before she was allowed in, maybe they had had trouble with bad dogs?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

That’s the year we me met Clarrie 😃

 

Happy Days

[davidg]

Another of theirs, the Craven Arms in Gough Street (behind The Mailbox) is worth a visit in the city centre. With the demise of The Woodman it has become my go-to place for a quiet pint before/after an afternoon of disappointment & disillusionment at Villa Park.

[Tim Lewis]

11 hours ago, dmr said:

Were you with us when we had to negotiate for twenty minutes to get the dog into the Black Country Arms in Walsall?

It was a while ago and is all a bit of a blurr 😀.

My daughter who is/was a teacher has accidentally become a landlady, I was trying to persuade her to move from Bristol to the Black Country to get a proper pub.😀

 

If you look at their website they are looking for people to run their pubs, they say doing food is optional but cobs are a required essential.

They have another one in Walsall, The Pretty Bricks. Very much a back street boozer 

[dmr]

7 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

They have another one in Walsall, The Pretty Bricks. Very much a back street boozer 

 

If you look at their website they now have a lot of pubs over quite a wide area, proving my theory that you can make money out of drinking pubs as long as they are good and do not have a greedy pubco taking the profits.

[sigsegv]

Had quite a few black country ales in the Windmill Inn in Rugby last night. Really decent beers, I was a huge fan. My head this morning disagrees, but I'll definitely be seeking them out again

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

43 minutes ago, sigsegv said:

Had quite a few black country ales in the Windmill Inn in Rugby last night. Really decent beers, I was a huge fan. My head this morning disagrees, but I'll definitely be seeking them out again

I like the Fireside and the BFG.

oooh and the pork and stuffing sandwich, they’d ran out of cobs so did mine on thick sliced tiger bread, was fantastic 🤤 😋 

 

 

[Mike Todd]

6 hours ago, dmr said:

 

If you look at their website they now have a lot of pubs over quite a wide area, proving my theory that you can make money out of drinking pubs as long as they are good and do not have a greedy pubco taking the profits.

are not Black Country ales a pubco (def: a company that owns a group of pubs - Cambridge Dictionary)? Or do you mean that they are not a greedy pubco?

[dmr]

1 hour ago, Mike Todd said:

are not Black Country ales a pubco (def: a company that owns a group of pubs - Cambridge Dictionary)? Or do you mean that they are not a greedy pubco?

 

They are not a greedy pubco,, but Im pretty sure that they are a brewery too. Brewery owned pubs are ok because the brewery needs its pubs to succeed to sell the beer. The greedy pubcos are really property investors.

[Laurie Booth]

19 hours ago, Goliath said:

That’s the year we me met Clarrie 😃

 

Happy Days

https://youtu.be/MIeR9xDNWEk

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

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[Naughty Cal]

20 hours ago, Goliath said:

Yes, it was when we were on the BCN Explorer in 2013.

We had a ramble in to town. 
I remember they were dead friendly and you had a Cury in there.

The Black Country Ale pubs I’ve been in since are dog friendly. 

It wasn't the dog that was the problem it was vegetarians 🙃