Real ale on match days


"These Things Happen" is a new venue. Only just opened on the roker seafront. facing harbour100 yards from Harbour View which is a great pub to visit . So ...two choices there.
In here now. I like it. Five hand pulls, and a nice selection of keg.
I can't remember seeing a real ale at Vaux. Is it next to the cider or something?
Yeah, two hand pulls. One is generally cider, and the other occasionally cask 👍 best selection of craft keg near the stadium by a country mile though
 
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Mods please move this if not in the right place. We’ve got a family friend joining us from the states next month and he loves real ale. Where are the best places in walking distance to the match these days?

Thanks
There’s a difference between real ale & craft beer mate. Real ale is a bit more old school Camra type gear whereas craft is the current alternative to the brands you’d expect to find in a pub. If it’s craft with a short walking distance Vaux is ideal, it’ll be skewed to their stuff with guest beers in, but I think the majority of their beers are great. I believe it gets a bit full nearer kick off, I tend to get in early.

Lighthouse on Sea Road does Maxim stuff, where you’re probably going more into the real ale territory. About 1.5m from the SoL
 
In here now. I like it. Five hand pulls, and a nice selection of keg.

Yeah, two hand pulls. One is generally cider, and the other occasionally cask 👍 best selection of craft keg near the stadium by a country mile though
I like both so all good for me. Will pay attention on Saturday.
 
Vaux tap was chocka block before the Norwich game. Queuing out the door for beer too.
 
Depends on what you call walking distance, Chaplins, Ivy House and Ship Isis would be my choices.
The IPA trend has got way out of hand. The point of multiple handpumps is to offer a variety of beer styles, not half a dozen variations on a theme. And don't get me started on the oxymoron that is a black IPA.
Man after my own heart. Once upon a time when you walked into a pub with a dozen or so handpulls, you felt like you were in beer heaven, and generally you were, with styles to suit all tastes, but now on closer inspection, if you are lucky there might be one dark and or a best bitter amongst a sea of IPA, Pale, Blond, Golden beers. I like all styles but prefer dark and best bitters. I am always putting up a case to landlords and staff about the merits of best bitter etc, and recently a couple have said they are becoming more popular, lets hope so. I had a lovely pint of Red Willow Feckless in Newcastle the other week, one of the best Best Bitters I've ever tasted. Black IPA's are an acquired taste, tried a Budvar Dark the other night, that was okay.
Whats the KIngs Arms like as a pub, that is the one behind B&Q Deptford way?
Haven't been in for a few years, but used to be a belter of a pub, Sundays used to be great in there. Think it might have lost its edge since, but imagine it would still be very good, if only for its layout/architecture, proper old historic Sunderland pub, now stood on its own in an area that was once a community of terraced streets and the hive of Sunderland industry.
New pub opening on the 16th November, Keel Bar in Keel Square, supposed to be stocking real ales.
 
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Harbour View and The Avenue are only places you are more or less guaranteed a decent pint of real ale anywhere in Sunderland.
In here now. I like it. Five hand pulls, and a nice selection of keg.

Yeah, two hand pulls. One is generally cider, and the other occasionally cask 👍 best selection of craft keg near the stadium by a country mile though
Everytime been in These things happen apart from first week I’ve had to take beer back as was shite.
 
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Harbour View and The Avenue are only places you are more or less guaranteed a decent pint of real ale anywhere in Sunderland.

Everytime been in These things happen apart from first week I’ve had to take beer back as was shite.
Have you had bad pints in the Isis?
 

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