EGON TOASTE's Wassailled Hostelries Guide
2012
We'll publish pix & notes when we've been! see previous years for a flavour ... (generally that of Good Ale ...).
| TOUR (& Rough Location) | Tour & SIGN of the HOUSE |
Notes * NB: This is NOT a critical review. See below. |
| Ash Vale | Saturday 15th December | £215.52 in the hat - a Rare Triumph! |
| Wareside | White Horse |
Jolly welcoming |
Chequers |
Ditto - Keith seen, as he traditionally is. | |
| Widford | Green Man |
Happy crew |
| Hadham Cross | Crown |
Great stop for a wet, as ever |
| Much Hadham | Bull |
Heaving - very jolly. Wild Rover done |
| Lt Hadham | Nags Head |
Most convivial! Note made to come back for lunch. |
| Standon | The Star
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Friendly - Lowestoft ale (Trawlerboys) in great form |
| Sawbo Floods | Thursday 20 December | £ 138.48 In The Hat, from a small but perfdectly formed crew |
| High Wych | Rising Sun
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| Gilston | Dusty Miller
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| Eastwick | Lion
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| Sawbridgeworth | The Gate
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George IV
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Queen's Head
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The Willie
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Hand & Crown
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Landlord's Valediction | |
| The Manuden Ramble | Friday 21 December | £305 in the hat - an Excellent Effort! |
| Clavering | Fox & Hounds
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Cricketers
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| Ugley | Chequers
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| Stansted | Queens Head
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Social Club
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Kings Arms
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Bell
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| Hazel End | Three Horseshoes
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| Sheering to Takeley - Oak & Heath | Saturday 22nd December | £191 in the hat |
| Hallingbury | George 
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| Sheering | Crown
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Cock |
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| Hatfield Heath | Thatchers
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White Hart
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White Horse |
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| Hatfield Broad Oak | The Cock
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| Takeley Street | Green Man
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Four Ashes
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| Molehill Green | Three Horseshoes |
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* Notes
All our comments are good -. If you want a crit, go see CAMRA or the Good Food Guide. If people are good enough to let us in to sing & collect, that says something about them already. All the pubs have an individual character and it's up to you, the hopeful traveller, to go and see if you like their style. All we offer is a hint or two.
BEERFORDBURY SOCIAL ANNOYANCE POLICY:
Landlords
- if you don't like the look of us, we aren't going to argue if you turn us
away.
It's the licencee's right to control
visitors and assess the annoyance we might cause their patrons and we recognise
that.
We do not go where we're not wanted, nor
will we add to the annoyance by asking again next year,
unless we become aware of a change in management (or management policy).
We're not easily offended.
(however the emotional damage cause by callous rejection of our finely-honed
choral skills sometimes takes months** to overcome)
(**or even minutes)
From experience, specialist restaurants and big drinking-halls with club-type
dance sound are not set up for a wassail and if it doesn't look like the sort
of pub we could do, we don't try. See above for the sorts of pub we like, and
vice-versa.
Those who refuse because the landlord's absent or there's a live gig or an important
match in progress will often be re-visited next year.
When in a pub, we will very happily shut up if customers want us to - you just
have to ask. Occasionally, we get paid to shut up* - we're kind of happy with
that, more drinking time & less vocal strain!
* Cheers & respect to Pez & friend who had a kind of auction to decide
if we were going to sing another one ... or not
