Small glimmers

 The beer scene in Eastbourne remains a long way behind other places we spend time.

We get that it's tough in the industry but there's probably something else at play in Eastbourne - a lack of interest in beer (other than Harveys Best) seems to be the most likely.  

Anyhow, we've been doing our usual haunts since we've been back from Bristol - Crown, Beerarama, Belgian Bar and Ninkaci. We haven't even been to the Lamb or the Hurst.  Mostly because the warmer weather doesn't lend itself to Harveys beers (in our opinion) and partly because clientele in the latter place have "views" that we don't want to be in amongst - especially at the moment.

There was a fun trip to The Seadog in Hastings because I was there for work and I may have won BBB over to the idea of bao with beer.

But yesterday, I'd promised to do a day at the Wish Tower.  By the end of the open day, we needed to convene to talk to one of the other members about the renovation of the front door (that's another story) and it required a bit of thought and geeking - both best done over a pint.

We were going to head to Beerarama but we decided to have a quick look at the newly-opened "was the Buccaneer" which is the closest place to the Tower.  It's now called "Bohemian" and it's had a bit of a makeover.  In the past the venue has been a bit of a place of necessity so we don't generally have high expectations of the offering. Added to that, it was tennis finals day so we anticipated it might be stupidly busy.

Anyhow, all appeared to be well, so we ventured in.

The cask offering was pretty respectable - 4 cask beers (2 Longman, 1 Burning Sky, 1 Three Legs) and there were a few keg beers - including 2 local offerings (Beak & Longman).

I think we'd say the cask was a little too cool but the beer was in excellent nick.

It was pleasant in there, they had Euros Football on and you could kind of see the tennis out the back.  It was probably busier than usual but it was a good place for us to be.  The beer was quite pricey but not so much it would actually put us off.

All in all?  A welcome addition to place we might go from time to time but I still think it's unlikely we'll venture out to it specifically.  Still, small mercies.