22/05/2026
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Here we go then, it’s finally happened, it’s actually hot!
The next few days promise to be extremely busy so it’s time for our annual post about what to expect when it’s manic!
To be fair it doesn’t have to be hot for this to happen, as you’ll know if you joined us when it was (checks notes) 13* in March 😆.
Many of you’ll be familiar with how it goes, but on days like this we have no choice but to use (non)plastic cups for large parts of the day.
We don’t like doing it, we know you don’t like it, but it keeps the staff and everyone else safe, and keeps the drinks flowing.
We know this is pretty much and annual post now, but feel it’s always worth a little heads up and explanation.
Every winter we work hard to improve our setup to make things quicker, and more efficient when when the spring rolls around, but the reality is that with the numbers we see on days like these, we simply cannot fit enough glass in our small bar to keep everyone served properly.
The worst of all scenarios is to use all of the available glass and then move on to non-glass and have hundreds of glasses out and about in the gardens.
We have to get ahead of it and preempt it!
So after certain times of the day we’ll switch completely to non glass. The open nature of the pub and gardens means we do not differentiate between indoor and outdoor, we’re 100% on or the other.
Please don’t kick off with the staff about it (we know 99.9% won’t), it’s not their fault, it’s just the reality of what it takes to keep a beer in everyone’s hand.
If it’s ’not that busy’ when you’re served a bio glass, please trust us. It will be very quickly.
On weekends like these you’ll also see a reduced selection of beers on the bar as we double up on popular products, again a move to keep everything ticking over and everyone happy.
We’ll still have a good spread on with all boxes ticked as well as we can, there’ll still be guest ipa, sour, lager, NA, just probably not multiple of each style.
Thanks again, hope you all enjoy the great weather over the weekend, wherever you spend it x
