The Door Hinge (Free House)
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Michael Croxford
Visits Details
20 Dec 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 10pm close. The light green and cream wall painting is completed with fewer wall adornments now but where have the CAMRA Pub of the Year certificates gone!?
| Tonbridge - Velvet Raven | 5.20 |  | |
| Dorking - Red India Ale | 5.00 | Not Tried | |
| Mighty Oak - Jake the Snake | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
03 Dec 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit. Paint rollers at the ready with a lime green covering to the previous maroon dark red wall colour. All change all change.
| New River - Blind Poet | 4.50 | | Nourishing porter |
| New River - Riverbed Red | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
| Five Points - XPA | 4.00 | Not Tried | Allegedly an unfined version. I saw very murky glasses full being enjoyed |
22 Nov 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 10pm close. The new Guvs have scraped off most of the stick-on frosted glass effect on the street windows to make the world visible from inside and the inside visible from the street. Some customers do not like it but there it is.
| Kent - Comfortably Plum | 4.90 |  | Fruity fun with a full body |
| Old Dairy (being contract brewed after it closed) - Copper Top | 4.10 | Not Tried | Ran out |
| New River - London Tap | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
| Mighty Oak - Touch Nut | 4.30 | Not Tried | New on for tomorrow |
15 Nov 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 10pm close. Co-Guv Geoff is in dock with a back problem.
| Mighty Oak - Jake the Snake | 4.00 | | New cask and surprisingly tasty |
| Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds') - No. 5 | 4.40 | | |
| Iron Pier - Rosherville Red | 4.80 | Not Tried | |
09 Nov 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 10pm close.
| Kent - Green Giant | 6.00 | | More GG to smooth my furrowed brow after much of it yesterday elsewhere!! |
| Tonbridge - Ebony Moon | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
| Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - The Pardoner's Ale | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
| Tonbridge - Old Chestnut | 4.40 | Not Tried | |
05 Nov 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 9pm close. Just me and the Doc in.
| Kent - KGB or Kent Golding Bitter | 4.10 | | |
| Mad Cat - Crispin Ale | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
| Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - The Merchant's Stout | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
29 Oct 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 9pm close.
| Mad Cat - Platinum Blonde (previously Meaney's Platinum Blonde Ale) | 4.20 | | In top form |
| Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - The Wife of Bath's Ale | 3.90 | | |
| Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - The Merchant's Stout | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
18 Oct 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 10pm close.
| Iron Pier - Perle & Challenger Joined at the Hop | 3.80 | | Great hop balance |
| Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds') - No. 5 | 4.40 |  | Second to last out of cask and the poorer for it. None of this beer's usual hop bitterness |
| Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Good Lord | 5.00 | Not Tried | |
11 Oct 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 10pm close. D-Day has arrived and founding Guv Ray has passed on the business to local fellows Geoff and Steve.
| Old Dairy (being contract brewed after it closed) - Snow Top | 6.00 | | Allegedly near end of cask but still superb |
| Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds') - HPA Hoppy Pale Ale | 3.60 | | |
| Bristol Beer Factory - Low Rider | 3.90 | Not Tried | |
08 Oct 2019 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until 9pm close. D-Day mey be Friday!
| Old Dairy (being contract brewed after it closed) - Snow Top | 6.00 | | A glorious anaesthetic |
| Buxton - Moor Top | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
| Kent - Session IPA | 3.90 | Not Tried | |
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