Stonch lives in London, where he runs a pub.Strippers in a brewery tap
The Griffin, known to regulars as "The Black Buzzard", is a tittie bar at 125 Clerkenwell Road (map). As long as you're willing to drop a pound in a pint jug every time an exotic young lady passes by, she'll mount the stage and show you her breasts, vagina and (in keeping with modern preoccupations) winking anus.
The building itself has an impressive history. Many years before the windows were blacked out and a bouncer stationed at the door, it was the tap for Reid & Co's Griffin Brewery. That closed in 1899 after 136 years in business, having specialised in porter and stout. It's pleasing that the name has survived, even if the brewery hasn't.
Last time I visited, I was saddened to see the lone handpump had been removed. The Griffin used to be one of the few outlets for cask Tetley's in London. I was always tickled by that odd distinction. Perhaps CAMRA should be tackling this problem: just because you're partial to a flash of gash, it doesn't mean you don't deserve real ale.
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I agree. How many strip clubs have real ale? Not enough! Let the campaign begin...
Tyson, perhaps the question should be "how many real ale pubs have strippers"!
But then again gents, how many strippers drink real ale?
I think it's deliberate. I think fat, bearded, fleece wearing, plastic bag carrying types would not be good for business, so they take thcask ale away to remove this element!
A shame. When visiting this sort of establishment it's always good to have a lone handpump.
The White Horse, 64 Shorditch High Street did three real ales when I went there s a few years back. It's more pole dancing than stripping, the guy was cleaning the mirrors when I passed through, it was rather hot and steamy in there ....
Thanks you have given me an idea for a business,I like Ale and Minge,and all careers should have Minge benefits. I could have all by beers from The Belvoir Brewery!
It's only a matter of time before a brewery with a penchant for risque brew names launches "Winking Anus" as their new brew.
Christ, imagine the artwork on the pump clip. Actually, don't.
For those of you whom beer might interest more than bits of female anatomy, you can find details of Reid's Porters and Stouts here:
http://www.europeanbeerguide.net/
beerale.htm#griffingrist
Could it be that CAMRA is behind the move, given that they might be at risk of losing a large part of their membership if the sweatered beer nerds became aware of the existence of women?
Stonch - you do know what you like, eh? - a resounding "No" to dodgy dungeons&dragons-meets-softporn pumclips, but you're all for campaigning to "save the ale" in a dodgy strip joint?! Some top 'bon mots' there too, incl the (unintentional?) "lone handpump" remark that 'the beer nut' spotted.
Hahhaha! Marvellous post that, Stonch.
Surely the only beer sold in a place like that should be Schlitz?
Or the Norwegian brew Aass?
Sadly the once-thriving Canadian brewery Kuntz (I kid you not - it replaced the old Carling brewery in London, Ontario as the place where Black Label was brewed) is no longer around.
Mary's in Portland, OR, is famous for their craft tap selection and nekkid girls. There's a movement afoot among Philly-area craft brewers to get more of their beers into the city's skin bars, and it seems to be working...um, I hear it is, anyway.
This goes along with what Mr. Bryson has stated above: I have been trying to get hand pumps in strip clubs for years. I keep telling the girls that work there it taste the way the brewer intended. But on another note, Stonch you have to get Mr. Bryson to do more reviews like these.
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