Real People Real Stories: Pub crawl for a keg of real ale!
London, England 1974 Pub Crawl for a Trophy, a keg of real ale! by Alan Copplestone In the seventies ‘Young’s Brewery’ in Wandsworth South London (Young’s has brewed real ale for over 400 years)...
View ArticleMighty Blighty Pub Stop: Part 1
Mighty Blighty Pub Stop: a quick guide to a few great pubs and brews from England. First stop…The Princes Head in Richmond. One of my favourite pubs in this area of London and is a great place to stop...
View ArticleMighty Blighty Pub Stop: Part 2
Mighty Blighty Pub Stop: a quick guide to a few great pubs and brews from England. Next stop: The Old Goat in Fulwell…a popular French Gastro-pub down the road from Twickenham, the home of Rugby…so not...
View ArticleMighty Blighty Pub Stop: Part 3
Mighty Blighty Pub Stop: a quick guide to a few great pubs and brews from England. Next Stop: The White Cross, Richmond is a Traditional Historic Riverside Pub, in a fantastic location in the centre of...
View ArticleReal People Real Stories
Send us your best drink related story to share on our blog. If we choose your story we’ll give you a $25 Gift Certificate to spend at any of our pubs. Email your stories to blog(at)vicpubco.ca.
View ArticleReal People Real Stories: Postcard from Maui
A truely tropical drinking story, by Kathy MacCallum. Sometimes drinking has great side benefits….those other than good drinks with good friends. The scene: Maui…..mid-day….HOT. And there is a pub on...
View Article… With Thanks from Doctors Without Borders
The Bard & Banker has received a letter of thanks from the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) to both staff and patrons of the pub for raising funds for the MSF’s Haiti Relief Fund.
View ArticleReal People Real Stories: A Close Call…
A real nail-biter, by Brian Hunter. “Sometime in the early 1980s I rolled into Barstow, a nothingness located between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the high desert of the Mojave just below Death Valley,...
View ArticleRandom Act of Kindness at The Irish Times Pub.
A letter of thanks for a random act of kindness! Just a note to advise you we were the victims of a random act of kindness in your establishment on Friday 27 Aug @ about 1800 hrs. We were seated at a...
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