The Pubs of Portslade
The pubs they are a-changin' South Street, showing the former Portslade Brewery, complete with chimney I live in Portslade, a small town about five miles west of Brighton. I have been here for fifteen years but had, until recently, only drunk in three of its many pubs. I was inspired to check out the others by the writings of beer bloggers Boak and Bailey . Not only have they recently published a fascinating history of the English public house 20th Century Pub they post frequently about the various hostelries in their adopted city of Bristol. These reviews, and their aim of presenting each venue in as positive a light as possible, set me thinking. I should probably begin by attempting to explain exactly what it is that I look for in a pub. The first thing is decent beer. Preferably this should include at least a selection of ales on cask although the quality of many keg-delivered beers these days means that this isn’t always a deal-breaker. Another is the absence