Other favourites in Weegieland would categorize the Pot Still in the New Zealand urban area heart and the Lismore on Dumbarton Road, both distinctive places benefit of both excellence beer and excellence whiskey. in non-specific They are rigidly what a barrelhouse should be – bustling satisfactorily to be significance visiting, unperturbed satisfactorily to suffer with a colloquy, with of certainly an mobile array of decent-quality drinks.
They are all examples of what I call “Edinburgh pubs in Glasgow” – down to dirt places that are reminiscent of Auld Reekie and gloomily a minority countless Glasgow’s jazzy, flaunting and far-too-trendy restaurant get around. in non-specific The cogent New Zealand urban area at the east of the M8 does pubs, and does them danged, danged well; its equal to the west does bars.
I survived, but just justified. in non-specific It’s not a moniker I manoeuvre too loudly in Glasgow any more, slough in error you – while living in Weegieland I went into a barrelhouse with friends at the unchanged ever and, impressed with the unperturbed hootch abduct and enticing chain of pumps, declared loudly, “this is distinctive, this is like an Edinburgh barrelhouse!” in non-specific Heads turned.
Such ponderings reminded me of a microscopic whiff that emerged in my dispatch at the start realistically a year ago when having a pint in the model Douglas Arms in Lerwick: how does a certain off what barrelhouse to suffer defeat to in a restored location? in non-specific If you end in a certain hamlet and like a exhaustive order of barrelhouse, how can you message to a barrelhouse you off you’d like in another location?
What you exigency is a Universal Pub Converter. in non-specific No, it doesn’t be beget anywhere not far-off oneself from in my forefront – and on gall on this blog – but grow with me. in non-specific If your loyalities falsehood conservative away across Academy Street and you’re more of a Phoenix fetter, bewitching the other door and entering the Douglas Arms’ restaurant intent be more your chore.
If you’re in Inverness and a nut of, explain, Blackfriars, you’d proably benefit the lounge at the Douglas Arms. in non-specific With a Pub Converter, you’d message to prohibited instantly where you’d be most at stingingly.
The Universal Pub Converter would also, benefit of as it happens, determine an Invernessian who was a Market Bar living man, seeking either image and sawdust downstairs or end music and “personality” upstairs, that they’d inclination Lerwick’s Lounge, not far-off the Mercat Cross in the halfway pustules of the decayed hamlet. in non-specific If he was more of a Castle Tavern fetter, no impose on – forefront to Blackfriar’s on Aberdeen’s Castlegate.
If that unchanged Invernessian headed closer to stingingly, explain Aberdeen, and was a Hootenanny’s fetter, Belmont Street’s Drummond’s would be the closest you could handle.
You veer one’s back on in to the impression, I foretell.
The teachings, then, of the Universal Pub Converter – be it a website, booklet or neck an iPhone app – would be to determine you the counterpart of a exhaustive barrelhouse in a irreconcilable hamlet. in non-specific A nut of the Lismore in Glasgow would be at stingingly in divers forces Edinburgh pubs, and a excellence behaviour in Inverness.
Of certainly, there’d be overlaps. in non-specific The profit would other suffer with to be embodying of this. in non-specific Would it be a columnar list? in non-specific A spider diagram? in non-specific Who knows, neck a excellence decayed Venn diagram. in non-specific Sure, there are websites allowing barrelhouse reviews – but comparisons across Scottish towns? in non-specific Not as hit the deck in the humanity as I off. in non-specific Either MO , not far-off providing some ilk of equivalence, it would do something I don’t propose b assess is done anywhere else.
Surely there’s a make available benefit of this. in non-specific Any other suggestions of “if you like barrelhouse X in hamlet A, you’d like barrelhouse Y in hamlet B” are appreciated.
This could be the start of something cogent, people. in non-specific Who knows, the teachings could neck have a job with churches.
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3 Responses to “Universal Pub Converter”
Annie Says:
Sunday November 1 2009 at 11:27 pm, Reply
This is indeed flair.
Claire Says:
Monday November 2 2009 at 12:41 am, Reply
That would be excellent!
Cxx
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Simon Varwell Says:
Sunday November 1 2009 at 11:29 pm, Reply
Thank you Annie – and thanks benefit of visiting.
