Nice to be celebrating a pub reopening for a change, instead of grieving over a closure. Full marks to @BrewYork for bringing the Old Gray Mare back to life.
@thewickingman A great shame, and I was just thinking of contributing, having run into a decent drop in the King's Way, Stoke on Trent. Thanks for your esteemed efforts in the past and I hope someone, somewhere will keep it going.
@oldmudgie He has the biggest stock of 'unspoilt' pubs in the country, and I fear for them. More importantly though are the 100-odd closed pubs, which any board would flog off in an instant, mostly lost to residential.
In a turn out I found a 2012 vintage @CRBrewery Elsie Mo. Pleased to say it was in perfect drinking order, the Maris Otter malt having developed a well-rounded complexity with just enough hop bitterness. I expect the label of the time will throw some into paroxysms however.