>> Theakston's Old Peculiar. You
>> need to be big to absorb much of that without injury.
Yeah, when I worked in a pub in Nottingham as a student (Grove Hotel, Castle Boulevard), we had OP on permanently, the pubco was part of S&N at the time which had taken over Theakstons recently. I used to stick to XB (glorious stuff), OP was mental juice.
We had one regular who was an older guy with OCD. Used to turn up at the bar every day at 10.59pm and order 5 pints of OP. He arrived that late because he spent all evening worrying around his flat over the road about things being turned off, until it got to 10.55 and his alcoholism got the better of his OCD. He always had the 5 pints finished by chucking out time at 11.20.
We used to get a couple of celebs in there. Vivian McKerrell (the bloke Withnail is based on) and Jim Bowen. We were round the corner form the Central TV studios where Bullseye was filmed. VM kept himself to himself, JB was an insufferable tosspot.
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