Best Cask Ale Pub In Britain

[redman41]

Do you know of a better Cask Ale Pub than this one ??
The Fat Cat, West End Street, Norwich.
33 Different Beers available today, as follows

Real Ales on Hand Pump

Fat Cat Bitter 3.8%
Fat Cat Honey Ale 4.3%
Fat Cat Hell Cat 4.1%
Adnams Bitter 3.7%
Timothy Taylor’s Landlord 4.3%
Fat Cat Cougar 4.7%
Oakham Inferno 4.0%
Amber Ales Chocolate Orange 4.0%
Greene King Yardbird 4.0%
Morland Old Golden Hen 4.1%
Milestone Hop and Glory 4.2%
Fox The Last Day 4.0%

Real Ales on Gravity

Fat Cat Wild Cat 5.0 %
Fat Cat Marmalade 5.5%
Oakham Bishops Farewell 4.6%
Fullers ESB 5.5%
Greene King Abbot Ale 5.0%
Adnams Broadside 4.7%
Green Jack Mahseer 5.8%
Golden Triangle Red Square 4.6%
Stonehenge Sign of Spring 4.5%
Oakham Green Devil IPA 6.0%
Adnams Tally Ho 7.2%
Batemans Vintage Ale 7.5%
Marstons Owd Roger 7.6%
S&P Nasha 5.0%
Dark Star American Pale 4.7%
Hop Back Summer Lightning 5.0%
Adnams South Town 4.9%

Stouts and Porters

Fat Cat Porter 4.9%
Burton Bridge Top Dog Stout 5.0%
Oakham Hawse Buckler 5.6%
Evolution Coffee Zeus 5.7%

Which Pub/Pubs can you nominate, as this one is hard to beat ! :-))

[tonyav]

Take some beating that, Red. Have you tried them all ?.

[redman41]

LOL LOL tonyav......
as I lie under the Table....:-))

[tonyav]

LOL, good man, Red.

[mushroom25]

there's another one of these in Sheffield......

http://www.thefatcat.co.uk/beermenu/beermenu.htm

[tonyav]

The link doesn't work, mushroom.

[mushroom25]

http://www.sheffieldpub.co.uk/pubs/city-centre/fat-cat/

[Booldawg]

Are they a bre-pub or are they re-branding other ales for their 'Fat Cat' range?

Dont know of a pub that matches this but we recently did an ale crawl in central London. My favouite was The Lamb & Flag & The Harp, both in Covent Garden area.

[redman41]

Hi Booldawg !
There are 3 Fat Cat Pubs in Norwich, all Free Houses.
I think they are all owned by the same Family
The Fat Cat Brewery supplies all of these Pubs with the Fat Cat Ale which is on the Beer Board.
The Fat Cat above is the best of all three.

When I visit Mother in Law in London, I usually end up in 'The Falcon', Clapham Junction as they usually have around 16 Cask Ales available each day.
If I manage to get to Covent Garden I'll have to visit those Pubs !! :-)))

[mccfluff]

there used to be a Smiles brewery at the top of the christmas steps in bristol, i worked just down the road, we often wobbled home after visiting the pub on the corner :-)

[redman41]

Hi Mccfluff !!
That's a good name for a Brewery, often put a smile on your faces !! lol lol

[mccfluff]

it did indeed!

whens the next beer fest? :-D

[Buenchico]

There's a better real ale pub in Norwich! It's the King's Head on Magdalen Street.

In neighbouring Suffolk, Ipswich's own Fat Cat has an excellent reputation but the Dove is probably even better. The Beerhouse in Bury St Edmunds is also great.

[holoscofo]

Do you have a stake in this establishment by any chance? Rather a lot of beers for one pub!

[redman41]

It's a new Venue this Year Mccfluff.
Last Years Festival was the last in Digbeth.
It's Hockley this Year....:-)))
Wednesday 29th October until Saturday 1st November 2014

[redman41]

No stake holoscofo, only Pies and Rolls and as much Beer as you can drink.....

[redman41]

Suffolk is the Land of Green Jack Beers, Buenchico.
Superb stuff, and they all end up at the Fat Cat, Norwich eventually

[mccfluff]

I'm trying to think where hockley is....

[redman41]

I think it's somewhere around the Jewellery Quarter Mccfluff.
I'm not familiar with the area either as not been before
Liverpool Beer Festival is in September, so will probably go there first ;-00

[piggynose]

theres a hockley and digbeth in Brum