July Recap — Daily Tipples, Chippy Challenge, Etc

The frequency and intensity of my running has increased with the rise in temperature this summer so I find myself ducking into pubs for respite more than in recent months.  Beer and cider are featuring more so than dinner wine in the Daily Tipple log as a result:

 

BEER
DT #	Date	Name	Type	Venue
184	03-Jul	How Green Is Our Valley	bitter	Red Lion
188	07-Jul	Titanic Ale Over	bitter	Old Crown
190	09-Jul	Prescott Hill Climb	bitter	The Greyhound
199	18-Jul	Enraptured	bitter	The Four Candles
204	23-Jul	Brains SA	bitter	Red Lion
206	25-Jul	Cross Bay Nightfall	bitter	The Vine Inn
208	27-Jul	Stonehenge Ales Pig Swill	bitter	The Bell
211	30-Jul	Swordfish	bitter	Victoria Arms
183	02-Jul	Everard’s Sunchaser	blonde ale	White Hart
197	16-Jul	XT Pi	mild	St Aldate’s

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WINE
DT #	Date	Name	Type	Venue
186	05-Jul	Caberet Frank Cabernet Franc	red wine	house
189	08-Jul	Co-Operative Côtes du Rhône	red wine	house
191	10-Jul	Inycon Sangiovese	red wine	house
195	14-Jul	Jubilum Pinot Nero Syrah	red wine	house
196	15-Jul	Sierra Grande Pinot Noir	red wine	house
198	17-Jul	Paarl Mountains Cab Sav	red wine	house
202	21-Jul	La Metropole	red wine	house
205	24-Jul	Le Cru des Amoreux Saint-Amour	red wine	house
212	31-Jul	Quirky Bird Shiraz Mourvedre Viognier	red wine	house
182	01-Jul	Sainsbury’s House Dry Rosé	rose wine	house
207	26-Jul	Banrock Station Colombard Chardonnay	white wine	house
210	29-Jul	Monte Giove Pinot Grigio Chardonnay	white wine	house

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OTHER
DT #	Date	Name	Type	Venue
185	04-Jul	Warner Edwards Elderflower Infused Gin	booze	Magnum Wine, Old Town
209	28-Jul	Vodka and summer fruit frozen daiquiri	booze	house
187	06-Jul	Weston’s Vintage Cider	cider	house
193	12-Jul	Thatchers Vintage Cider	cider	house
194	13-Jul	Thatcher’s Katy	cider	house
200	19-Jul	Hogan’s Cider Panking Pole	cider	Groves Company Inn
201	20-Jul	Thatcher’s Heritage	cider	The Clifton
192	11-Jul	Lilley’s Apple and Pear Cider	cider/perry	Turf Tavern
203	22-Jul	Thatcher’s Perry	cider/perry	The Four Candles

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Having logged all the chippies near work, I also find that pub fish and chips — at least in Oxford — are the way forward in the Chippy Challenge.  I’m also having to travel farther afield from Swindon although there are still a good number of fish and chip shops near enough home to add to the list.  The Chick-O-Land in Salisbury is the new southernmost member of the list:

 

#	Chippies
72	Lemon Plaice	Swindon, Wiltshire	05-Jul
74	Liden Take Away	Swindon, Wiltshire	12-Jul
77	Sim’s Chippy	Swindon, Wiltshire	19-Jul
78	Rainbow Take-Away	Kidlington, Oxfordshire	23-Jul
80	Chick-O-Land	Salisbury, Wiltshire	27-Jul

 

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#	Pubs/Other
71	White Hart	Headington, Oxfordshire	02-Jul
73	Turf Tavern	Oxford, Oxfordshire	11-Jul
75	St. Aldate’s Tavern	Oxford, Oxfordshire	16-Jul
76	Groves Company Inn	Swindon, Wiltshire	19-Jul
79	The Vine Inn	Cumnor, Oxfordshire	25-Jul
81	Victoria Arms	Marston, Oxfordshire	30-Jul

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 Red markers are July additions, go to full map by clicking on one of these graphics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The G-Had also continues to develop with July trails overlapping a Didcot HHH trail (the inaugural Didcot clash, in fact) and a Bicester HHH trail that was more personal than it probably should have been.  Those make G-Had HHH trails #36 and #37.

 

 

 

The new pub count (as in the Count of Pubs New to this blog) stalled the first week of June and I almost went the entire month of July without an addition to the list.  This was corrected last Sunday with an 11 mile / 6 pub jog from Amesbury to Salisbury largely along the River Bourne.  With the woman working Sundays and every other Saturday the numbers should pick back up in the coming weeks.