Beers, Boats and Boozers, No.87.

We continued a walk around Ely in the beautiful weather.

They don't make chimneys like that any more, and if they did just think what they would cost!

Inside the Cathedral was nice and cool and as with all these old place quite inspiring as to how they built it with non of the modern equipment. You can understand why the public were awe struck by the magnificence. 

 The church and monastic buildings are all around and make for a great walk away from the crowds of the shopping streets. (Those were the days!).

The view of the Cathedral from Cherry Hill meadow is the best, other from the river at a bit of distance, and again is a nice spot 'far from the madding crowd'.

We need another drink by the time we got back to the centre of Ely so decided to visit the Minster Tavern. It is said to be the oldest pub in Ely, but I'm not sure whether that means the building, or the building that has been licenced the longest? The place was full of poster advertising products and meals etc, a bit like the Weatherspoon's oulets. The price wasn't quite as low though. There were plenty of TV screens if you were looking for that, but they weren't on loudly, and there were places in the large L shaped room to avoid them.

Robinson' was started in 1838 when the Unicorn Inn was purchased in Stockport. In 1849 the son of the original Robinson started brewing his own beer on the premises. Ten years later there was a demand for the beer so a warehouse at the back of the pub and soon 12 pubs were purchased to ensure the beer was served correctly. The brewery is still run by the fifth and sixth generation of the Robinson family. Although they have built a new Unicorn brewery it is on the same piece of land as the original Unicorn pub was found. However they do brewery tours of the old and new set up.

This light beer is a nice summer drink with a very hoppy smell. I thin white head and a pale yellow colour I found it refreshing and pretty good on a warm day, but not really special.