Went to Bank Top Brewery on Friday, top night looking round and sampling their beers.

 

?8 and you drink as much as you want

Flat Cap bitter.

 

They serve it on draught at Smithills Coaching House.

Flat Cap bitter.

 

They serve it on draught at Smithills Coaching House.

 

 

A great story behind that. Used to be called Fred's Cap - after the great man.

 

Well Mrs Dibnah the third tried to get her greedy hands into Bank Top by demanding payment for the use of Fred's name.

 

The lads at Bank Top told her were to go and changed the name of their best selling brew.

 

We were told that the timing of this demand from Mrs Dibnah III and the introduction of two new brews from Bank Top (Gold Digger and Old Slapper) was totally coincidental!

Went to Bank Top Brewery on Friday, top night looking round and sampling their beers.

 

?8 and you drink as much as you want

 

What time does it start / finish / how many people can be in a group.

 

Just that a "relative" is pushing 40 this coming Friday.

Yep bank top is a good night out the fresh air hits you though

when you step out. I have had a few nights i would rather forget after a

good night at bank top. Barresters in town serve Flap Cap too, and you can

smoke!!!!!!

Smiley - bank top is a book in advance tour i do know that most friday and sat nights are booked up till

probley xmas. well worth a tour though

What time does it start / finish / how many people can be in a group.

 

Just that a "relative" is pushing 40 this coming Friday.

 

 

As Bromley X has stated, book in advance with a few months notice.

 

Open the Pavilion to guests from 7.00ish. We stayed until 9.30 but I think it is stay as long as you want.

 

Our party was limited to 12 (as we squeezed in with another booking) but more is possible if you get in first.

Barresters in town serve Flap Cap too, and you can

smoke!!!!!!

I wouldnt risk having a smoke even though the landlord gives it the OK doesn't mean the Council blokes won't bung you a ?50 on the spot fine.

As a matter of fact I will be having a Blonde Witch in there on my rounds this afternoon on my well earned day off.

Barresters in town serve Flap Cap too, and you can

smoke!!!!!!

 

Well they've stopped recently. In there Saturday and they didn't have it on. He stocks mainly Moorhouse's bitters.

 

Heard rumours that Swan/Barristers fell out with Bank Top.

 

One thing I learned from the Bank Top tour is if landlords don't keep the beer correctly they'll refuse to supply that pub. Reckoned that the bad name it generates isn't worth the hassle.

 

The guy who did the tour was scathing about the landlord of the Kings Head in Deane.

 

Not sure if that's the reason they (BT & Barristers) fell out though.

Barresters in town serve Flap Cap too, and you can

smoke!!!!!!

 

Where the fook is that?

Where the fook is that?

 

The bar attached to the Swan. It used to be called the Malt & Hops as I recall.

The bar attached to the Swan. It used to be called the Malt & Hops as I recall.

Full of old beardy pseudo-intellectual types too. You know the ones: they think they know everything after a couple of pints, when really they just talk shit.

 

Plus the place will stink of smoke.

One thing I learned from the Bank Top tour is if landlords don't keep the beer correctly they'll refuse to supply that pub. Reckoned that the bad name it generates isn't worth the hassle.

 

Spot on JJ.

 

Told us a few tales of Landlords who ring up Bank Top to call their beer shite, having tried to serve it within hours of it being delivered!

Full of old beardy pseudo-intellectual types too. You know the ones: they think they know everything after a couple of pints, when really they just talk shit.

 

I take it the clientele come on WWays then.

T'is a good night

 

We paid an extra ?2 for a pie and pea supper at the carters arms

 

I have to say though the mix of ale and pie and peas was a recipe for disaster for my undercrackers

The guy who did the tour was scathing about the landlord of the Kings Head in Deane.

 

That would be the 'old' landlord, not the present incumbent. Flat Cap is no longer served unfortunately, due no doubt, to the arseole mentioned above. He reckoned he knew everything there was to know about running pubs - he had apparently run 'hundreds'. I don't think he ever cleaned the pub while he was there - the gents were a disgrace.

 

He couldn't run a bath

T'is a good night

 

We paid an extra ?2 for a pie and pea supper at the carters arms

 

I have to say though the mix of ale and pie and peas was a recipe for disaster for my undercrackers

 

 

They've knocked that option on the head.

 

Something to do with it attracting light-weights who wanted the food more than the beer.