Catching lunch

So this didn't make it to my other story about Ulvön, but yesterday placed three nets for "sik" (Coregonus lavaretus) and one net for "strömming" (herring) in the water, took them out this morning.

I had ordered herring for lunch, but mom was still scared to place more than one net for this fish. Once we placed 4 nets and got about 200 kg of herring, not fun.
A little video on how it looked can be seen here.

Some pics then as well, click on a pic to see it bigger. The text for describing the pic is always above the actual pic itself.


August 25, 2013 

Still in the boathouse, down into the old 7 meter wooden fishing boat. About 100 years old, makes about 4 knots, still takes you where you want to go even if it takes a while. You can see my mom, also her husband on the way down.

The diesel fueled Volvo Penta engine, makes a wonderful noise when you drive it.

Backing out, our boathouse (under renovation) to the right.

Yours truly, you might not spot it in the picture, but I'm very excited! Love catching fishes!

Going north, pic to the north east.

Northeast tip of Ronön.

Our first and only "sik" of the day. We did get a bunch of herring already in these nets though, so promised well for the real herring net (or like the old folks said, they started getting really worried).
I say you can never get too much herring!

Gollum might like it raw, but I like my fish fried! Screw sushi... 
But it is wonderful when you see the glittering fish caught in the net and you know you'll chew on their delicious little bodies in less than 4 hours! Oh and the video on the top if you missed it shows some more of my food coming up from the ocean.

I served as the row master today.

We also got one "simpa" (Cabezon), a fish we don't like. It shall be killed and not allowed to bread any longer. Luckily this was only a small one and hadn't completely messed up the net.

And last pic, me and mom picking out the herring from the net. Ended up just short of 140 herring, so about 7 kg. Gave away 2 kg to some neighbours, the rest I plan on eating over 6 meals in 3 days, mmm, fish!

Ulvön visit August 2013

So for my mates that wanted some pics from the island where our family cabin is, here goes.
The island is called "Ulvön" and the part where we have the cabin is "Norrbysbodarna".
There are actually "Norra Ulvön" and "Södra Ulvön", so the north and south island, we are on the north part, as are most of the populated areas.

This is located in the area called "Höga Kusten" which is on the world heritage list.

Click any pic to see it bigger.


August 20

First a pic from the boat, heading out from the mainland, just leaving "Näske" marina. 

 Getting closer to the island. 

 View from the cabin. Our boathouse is the one to the far left. 

 The cabin itself. 

 View from the boathouse. To the left the boat in which I arrived. 

August 21

The start of the road that will take me to "norrsand" beach, walking there.

 Closing in, you can start to see the ocean.

 There it is "Norrsand" beach on the east coast of the island and "Bottenhavet" ocean.

 A snapshot towards the north from the beach.

Walking back home, getting closer to "Norrbyn".

 Later took the 3-wheeled moped close to "Ulvöhamn" harbor, left it a bit from the place and walked down, a pic from me getting close to it. You can see the south island on the other side of the bay.

Ulvöhamn society and the bay between north and south Ulvön.

Stopped by "Ulvö Hotell" for a beer. First time I had a beer from "Hernö Hantverksöl" in Hörnösand, this one was "Hernö Pale Ale".

Yet another view over the bay.

Stopped the moped before one of the big hills going home, another scenic view. 

Sun setting, pic from the boathouse towards the west and the island "Ronön".

Still sunset, pic more towards the south from the boathouse.

And of course one more towards north as well.

Ah hell, I'm a sucker for sunsets, one from the house too.

August 22

First adventure for the day was to climb the closest mountain, "Valberget". First pic is not quite at the top, taking in the view towards the north or northwest.

Still not quite at the top, but could sneak in a pic of the ferry passing back to the mainland, as well as our yellow cabin down there as well.

Up there! Here's the southern tail of "Ronön" and behind that Swedish highest island, "Mjältön".

The view towards the south.

I was there too! I'm sure adding to the beauty of the shot, no?

And one more view towards the east, the mountain to the left is "Norra Vårdkasberget", I didn't know it yet, but would climb that later this day. The water in between the two mountains is by the beach "Norrsand".

Got on the moped and drove to the very tip of the north part of the island, walked out to the west part of the beach and snapped a pic of "Sandviken". This is where my moms dad used to work as a fisherman a long time ago. The fishing camp closed down in 1945.

View towards the northeast.

View to the west.

The chapel in Sandviken, I think I might have been baptised there, if not it was my brother, if not that either it is where my mom married my dad. Hmm, should I know this stuff?

Driving back stopped by "Sandvikssjön", where I used to go fishing for European perch as a kid.

Stopped once more on the way back, left the moped behind and climbed the north "Vårdkasberget" mountain. First pic might be the view to the east.

From the top still, more towards the north.

And one more towards the south as well.

A pic that shows the huge esker you need to cross to get up the mountain.

 Aight, that's it so far, not sure I'll take any more pics.

Sydney beer visit by gnoff, July 10-18, 2013

Sydney beer visit by gnoff, July 10-18, 2013

This post is very much a work in progress and is in no way finished.
(First two days, July 10 and 11, are pretty much done now) 

Sydney was to be my first stop in Australia on my planned beercation of 2013.
Before leaving home I got the "Sydney City Pocket Map - HEMA maps" ISBN 978-1-86500-462-4 as well as the "Lonely Planet Australia" ISBN 978-1-74179-807-4, from Swedish online book store Adlibris.
When applicable below letters and numbers are for finding places in the map mentioned above or to maps with page number mentioned in the Lonely Planet guide.
Next I went to the "places section" of ratebeer for Sydney, then sorted out all the places marked on there as breweries, these would be my priority for visits during my short stay in the city. However I also printed the other beer places mentioned since I had quite some time for beer hunting in Sydney.

 
July 10, 2013
 
As mentioned for my Singapore trip here, I got on my flight to Sydney, a 7 or so hour flight with Singapore Airlines with no incidents got me to Sydney. Landed safe and sound, no problems in immigrations, bag arrived (w00t!), passed through customs and showed my shoes to the border patrol. Next out of the airport to sneak a peak.
 

When staying minimum three nights at the hostel they offered free airport pickup, I called the toll free number for that from a payphone. On my way to the shuttle meeting point saw an Optus store, stopped by and picked up a local SIM card and number, $30 for 0.5 gig of data, and pretty much unlimited calls and texts to Oz numbers (250 minutes is a lot for me). This was valid for 28 days after purchase and a great deal that helped a lot! I recommend anyone staying more than a week to get one at the airport.
Anyhow, after arranging the phone got to the meeting point, got in the shuttle, and had the ride to my hostel.
Hostel was Nomads Westend Backpackers, located on 412 Pitt St., very centrally located and pretty much close to anything downtown Sydney. On my map "D2" to the west, pretty close to place marked "55". Had booked a 4 ppl mixed room, checked in, got my stuff to the room and got my small backpack ready to head out and start my Oz beer adventure.
Other thoughts on this hostel while on the subject. Only one working elevator and it was sloooow. Going to the kitchen or street level you were always better off using the fire stairs, going back up from the street you always needed to wait for the stupid elevator though.
A lot of kids (well, I'm getting old after all) drinking a lot in the kitchen and sometimes being rather rowdy, a few of them got kicked out after throwing chairs at each other, getting beer onto the ceiling(!) and crashing a large amount of beer bottles on the floor. I'm sure I never drank too much when I was there age! (that's to be read retorical btw, please don't post any of your memories from those day if you partied with me...)
Other than that, not very expensive, very easy to get to, close to Central and Chinatown, also (for me) walking distance to everything north of there in downtown Sydney, so if you're not too picky check it out.
Next was time to find a beer place and get this show on the road!

My first place on the agenda was the Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst. This was located outside of what showed on my map so had printed walking directions from google maps instead, walking there from my hostel. Out the door of the hostel, turn left south on Pitt St., left on Campbell St., right on Elisabeth St., left on Albion St. and walk that until it ended at Flinders St. and take a right. All good and well! Did see a street light with a crossing on the other side of Albion than I was walking, but figured I should be able to cross Flinders a bit down the road so just went happily down Flinders.
I could see the place on my left pretty soon, and some signals up ahead, kept walking. Hmm, no crosswalk here, well lets turn right and then I should get one soon down there, right? Walked two streets down, finally crossed over two streets, then walked back up and crossed I don't know how many streets, to finally head back down Flinders once more...
The supposed 20-25 min walk got quite a bit longer, but at least I worked up a thirst!
 

At this place they served draught beers in tasting paddles, score! They had 20 regular taps plus a handpump on. Also listed 20 bottled beers, with a list available for the full bottled selection if interested. I mainly wanted to try Oz craft beers, on tap if possible, so ordered a paddle right away. What you did was to take this list of the tap beers of the day, fill in the five you wanted to try, then they arranged your 90 ml samples in the order they thought you should have them and marked this order on your piece of paper. To this you also got a little bowl of crackers that tasted like dry mini pancakes, very nice! Water was readily available at the bar as well. The place was fairly busy so I spent my time by the bar on a stool, talking when possibly to the lady that helped me with my paddle (nope, I never flirt with bar staff, this is an evil rumor!). Also a guy with a guitar played some live music in one of the corners of the room.
After finished with my paddle and the lady asked me what I thought I "complained" a bit of one of the beers that I didn't enjoy, but not that it was poorly made, she gave me a free sample of the handpump then, awesome! Before leaving this place (which in the end turned out to be the first of three visits over my whole trip) I also got me a middy of a cider.
Can also mention that I saw bottles from Dugges in their bottle selection! Also some Danish craft beers, felt a bit like home.
Oh and of the sizes, if you want a smaller pour in Sydney (or perhaps all NSW) you ask for a middy. This of course is not the same name as if you are ordering the same or similar size glass in other states, because then it wouldn't be confusing, no?
Anyhow, some more information about this place below.

Place: The Local Taphouse
Website official
 
Beers and cider I rated
First five part of a 5*90 ml tasting paddle
Illawarra Wilkinson’s Curse
Murrays Angry Man Pale Ale
Feral Hop Hog
The Grifter Mr Midnight
Lord Nelson Black Eyed Rye
I think this next one was poured as a free 90 ml glass for me, after the paddle when I "complained" as to not like Mr Midnight very much
Australian Brewery Dead Witch Bitter
Finished with a cider in the smaller "middy" size
The Hills Cider Company Apple Cider

Next on my agenda was to head down to the Pumphouse on Little Pier Street, D1 on the map close to "27", also B4 close to "1" on map in Lonely Planet page 76. Also rather close to my hostel.
Walked back from the Local Taphouse, crossing over to Albion at the closer place, I can learn, then down to Chinatown, up Hay St. and passed the Sydney Entertainment Centre, then saw the brick building with large letters stating "Pumphouse".
 

The place was rather quiet this evening, also closed at 10 pm this night, but had time to try three beers before moving on. Did see Holy Cow from Dugges on bottles, two for two so far, seems Dugges is "big" in Oz? Apparently they used to carry Idjit as well, but sold out. Saw that they had Murrays Wild Thing on bottle, didn't want it tonight, but decided to come back to rate the at the time highest rated beer in Australia at a later date.
 

The staff offered small samples of each beer if you wanted to get a little taste before deciding what to order. My phone was running a little low on juice too, and the staff gladly let my use one of their outlets to charge it.
They had two beers specially made for them by St. Peters Brewery, sampled one of these during this visit. Left when they were about to close to try and find one more place this evening before heading to bed.
Place: Pumphouse
Pumphouse web site
Tried three beers, all in middy size:
Stone & Wood Pacific Ale
Dad & Dave’s #1 Pale Ale
Thunderbolt Strong Ale

The next place I hoped to get to was "Redoak" a little treck north at 201 Clarence St., C1 east close to "43" on my map, B6 close to "57" on page 70 of Lonely Planet.
Found the place with no difficulties and asked if they did tasting paddles or similar, but apparently they only served samples with food and the kitchen was closed for the night. After talking a bit to the ladies working the bar, describing what the intention of my 5 weeks in Oz was and my hopes to sample all their tap beers, they did pour me all the 10 samples! In the end payed $18 for it, not bad at all! I got back here more times as well, but all in due time for the story to unfold.
They had planty of beers in bottles too, one of the reasons I wanted to come back if I found the time for it.
 

Sampled my 10 beers and then realized most places were closing fairly early this evening, time to get some food in me.

Brewer: Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe

Place: Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe
Redoak web site

Sampled 10 beers from the taps, payed $18 for these samples, great!
Redoak Organic Pale Ale
Redoak Irish Red Ale
Redoak India Pale Ale
Redoak Original Apple Cider
Redoak Belgian Witbier
Redoak Breakfast
Redoak Bitter
Redoak All Day Breakfast
Redoak Winter In The Rye
Redoak Christmas Cheer

Walked back to my hostel, but did feel the hunger a bit, I don't think I had anything to eat since my Starbucks breakfast very early in the morning? On the corner of Pitt St. and Campbell St. just south of my hostel there was a restaurant of some kind, in I go!
My first thought is I'm likely to be the only non asian person in the place, but didn't bother me. Some karaoke going on, or live music, one of the two. Found the place to order food, got a curry of some sort, I forget exactly what it was, did order a Fat Yak and sat down with that and my meal at a table where I could fit with some other guests. Ate my food and drank my beer, but after I finished pretty much was at the end of my first day, time to get some sleep.
Place: Asian / Chinese restaurant and hotel, corner of Pitt St. and Campbell St.
Ate a curry, good food. 

Had one beer:
Matilda Bay Fat Yak Pale Ale

Got a bit late, was a bit tired, up to hostel for sleep. Whith three other people in the room always a bit tricky to go to bed, but with some preparations and a flash light that sort of works well.
Good night!

 
July 11, 2013
 
Woke early, as I often do when having to share a room with others. Took a walk around the area to see if I could score breakfast somewhere. Walked into the World Square and found a Coles in there to pick up some stuff for breakfast and to be able to make some lunches at the hostel.
Next wanted to hit the suburps a bit, walked over to the Central and the ticket office. Stated I wanted to take the train to Newtown, then again from there to Flemington, after that back to Central. The lady in the ticket office told me it would be much cheaper just to buy a return ticket to Flemington and use that ticket to get off and then on again in Newtown, "nobody would know". Fair enough, lets do that!
Waited for my train, got on it, realized this train probably didn't stop at all stations, got off at Redfern and waited for the next train that actually stopped in Newtown as well.
 

Took the train to Newtown and went looking for Young Henrys on 76 Wilford St. This was outside any of the maps I had, but I did print a map for that area, including the train station, so once I got me bearings right after asking which the passing road was I started walking. Once you're at the Newtown station and walk in the correct direction the brewery is not very far at all. It is located in a type of courtyard in an industrial slash alley like area, next to a yoga studio.
Once inside they had a small bar set up right by the brewery, so you may sit there and sample some beers while watching the lads work brewing our favourite beverage.
View from the bar
 

They had 7 beers on tap, also they offered either 4 or 6 beer tasting paddles. After talking to them I got to sample all 7, though think I ended up paying for 6, sweet!
 

Talked a bit to Matt and Dan from the brewery, as well as the head brewer who's name escapes me, not a big surprise for those who've met me a few times. Also they had a little heater going on blasing super hot air right towards the bar, so had to strip down some warm clothing (this is Oz winter after all) and sit in my T-shirt doing ratings. Talked to the guys about the 7 beers, took notes on the place itself and did ratings for the beers.
A nice place with a comfortable feeling in a pretty suburp not far from Sydney central, I can very much recommend a visit! Also got some tips on where to go in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to score craft beers.
The place opens early, so I made it here and tasted the beers before lunch even, beer before lunch rocks!
One of the "beers" was a brewed tea with wild yeast, a kambucha tea at 1.5%, very refreshing indeed.
 
Brewer: Young Henrys
 
Place: Young Henrys
Brewery web site
 
Tried 7 beers as a tasting paddle:
Young Henrys Divine Manchu
Young Henrys Brew Am I
Young Henrys Newtowner
Young Henrys Real Ale
Young Henrys Natural Lager
Young Henrys Cloudy Cider
Young Henrys Mother Shucka

Next took a walk up and down the main street in Newtown before starting to look for yet the next place to be nerdy at.
 

Next I walked south to Union Hotel at 576 King St, also outside of my maps but had printed walking directions from google maps again. Not a long walk at all from Young Henrys or from the Newtown train station.
These guys also served tasting paddles, a 5 beer flight with about 1 liter of beer total for $18, sweet! Ordered a medium rare rump steak with chips and a pepper sauce for lunch, food was very nice here!
 

Not much happening at this early hour, a few locals in for drinks, a younger couple playing billiard. Later on would get some live music, but much later than I felt like staying, wanted to continue on my nerdy beer hunt, after all it is what I do!
This place is nice, has good food and a great range of taps. Might not be a place you travel out of the city to go to, but Young Henry's sure was, and if you're there this place is well worth the short walk to get some more beers before heading back to the train.
 
Place: Union Hotel
Place web site
 
Did one 5 beer tasting paddle with:
Stone & Wood Jasper Ale
Bridge Road The Harvest Pale Ale
Young Henrys Hop Ale
Monteiths Doppelbock Winter Ale
Riverside Eighty Eight Robust Porter

Walked back to the Newtown station, then waited for a train to take me to Flemington station, then for a walk through the markets to get to Paddy's at 268 Parramatta Road, also a brewpub.
You might think "oh, walk through the markets, that sounds nice!", but what it is really is a huge concrete lot that looks more or less abandoned. However they did have signs for the brewery as well as a public toilet on the way, which was nice after my beer stops earlier.
Once through the markets walked into a sort of a mall, out the other side, saw a sign for the brewery, walked down and back up, finally there. If you're coming fromt eh markes, much easier to turn right before entering the mall and it will be on the far corner of the building.
Thsi was located far from any of the maps I had, just printed a map and then followed the signs through the markets. On the back of my map the area was B1 to the south east, but not really something used for walking directions.
Before going I had tried to find their trading hours, but failed. Even tried to email them, but it bounced, just hoped they'd be open, luckily it was!
In I went, asked for the beers, got directed to one of the bars, ah there they are!
 

They didn't offer tasting paddles, and only could give a few samples, but after talking to them the one lady that seemed to be the boss told the other lady in the staff to hook me up with samples of all five of them, yay! They didn't seem to want to get paid for the samples though, so for my own consience I bought a middy of another beer I hadn't rated and left some tips too. After this moved on, the place wasn't really somewhere cozy to sit down and hang, lots of poker machines, gamling, TV sets and none of the other patrons seemed to drink craft beer or be interested in anything but their games. I'll say though that the price for beer at Paddy's is much lower than in the city, and if you're haeding to Newtown to sample Young Henry's (yes, I keep saying it, but I want you to go too!) it is not that much further to head out to Paddy's as well.
 

Brewer: Paddys Pub and Brewery
 
Place: Paddys Pub and Brewery
Paddys web site
 
Sampled 5 beers from the taps, free, great!
Paddys Wheat Beer
Paddys Pilsner
Paddys General Sherman Pale Ale
Paddys Ginger Beer
Paddys Chocolate Porter
 
Also finished with a middy of
Reschs Draught
 
Walked back to the train through the markets once more, you can see how inspiring it is.

Made my way back to Central, the ticket worked all the way, sweet!
Walked over to Pumphouse once more, address and site etc as described above under July 10. Had a middy of their other special draught beer from St Peters as well as the bottle from Murray's I wanted to try.
A little bit more guests today, also I was there a bit earlier, had my two beers and then continued on for new adventures.
 
My draught beer was
St Peters Pumphouse 1891 Honey Porter
 
The bottled beer I had, that at the time was the highest rated Oz beer was
Murrays Wild Thing Imperial Stout

Next headed north towards the King Street Wharf along Sussex St. I did something profoundly stupid here, might as well write about that as well. The pedestrian crossings at traffic lights in Australia works the way that if you haven't pressed the button to cross before the parallell lights for cars have gone red, you'll have to wait until the next time. Once you get the green light you hear this little squeaking noice from the control that you may start to cross. So I was happily standing there after pushing that button a while back, reading my map, hear the squeak, start walking like a 6 year old that believes he is immortal. I see some lights tot he left in the corner of my eye and think that is very strange since I have a green light now. Nope, the other street had the green light, not me, though the cars crossing the street I am crossing have their green light...
Well, I survived, didn't get hit, but felt very stupid for a while. So when crossing a street in Oz, don't rely on the sound alone, check you actually have the green light too!
Anyhow, moving on.
 
Got to the wharf and went to the north end of it, started walking south looking at all the restuarants and signs along the way, got to the south end, had not seen King St. Brewhouse that I was looking for on 22 The Promenade. Was supposed to be B1 south on my map, or A5 close to "34" on page 70 of Lonely Planet.
Walked around a bit more, nope couldn't find it. Saw some police officers and asked them, they pointed me to a place where I should be able to see a sign for it and then go down some stairs, did that. Finally found it, I had walked past it, the sign wasn't that obvious at all.
 

In to the bar, they offered 4 beer tasting paddles, got me one of those as well as an angus steak. Luckily they had 30% off steaks on Thursdays, so got it fairly cheap. Couldn't pay with card this evening, they had problems with their machine or connection, cash only. They did have a working ATM inside the restaurant though. Bar service was excellent by the way, might as well say that since the service coming up to my table sucked badly.
 

The brewery seemed to be called "Red Tape", a bit confusing with a name so different to the name of the place, also couldn't find it on ratebeer at the time. Other than a few beers from Red Tape they also had several beers from Matilda Bay on taps.
Sat down at a table outside, it was dark now so couldn't enjoy the view of the water, but by daylight I'm sure it would be very scenic.
 

Tried my first beers from the paddle, then my food came. It was fairly tasty, but is was not even remotely close to medium rare, more like well done with a bit of medium in the middle. I complained about the food to my waitor, who brushed it off saying it was hard to make a steak medium rare and not get it a bit well done in the edges. Hello! Have you ever had steak at a good place? Didn't get any response from this silly person who should work with something else, so finished my food though my mood was dropping a bit. At least I had my beers! Walked back into the bar where I knew at least I would get friendly instead of moron service and stood there for my next tasting paddle. Seems the guy forgot to charge me for it, and considering I had to eat food I wanted made different and with sucky service, I figured it was karma, so didn't offer to pay anyhow.
 

I was wearing my Guns n' Roses belt buckle and a dude came up saying 2sorry, I didn't mean to stare at your crotch, but I saw you are wearing a Gn'R buckle". He was a hugs 80's metal fan so spend some time chatting to him about that until my beers were done and I wanted to keep going to the next place.
 
Brewer: Red Tape Brewing Company
Brewery web site
 
Place: King St. Brewhouse and Restaurant
Place web site
 
Sampled 8 beers via 2 tasting paddles
Red Tape Wood Duck Pale Cream Ale
Red Tape Wirrimah Wheat
Red Tape Old Duck Brown
Red Tape Single Batch Scottish Ale
Matilda Bay Dirty Granny Cider
Matilda Bay Minimum Chips Golden Lager
Red Tape Fat Jack Stout
Matilda Bay I.G.P. (Itchy Green Pants)
 
On August 23 when writing this I was on the top of this brewery on ratebeer as of numbers of beers rated, as well as the mayor of the place on ratebeer, yay, such a nerd :)

Was getting done at this place, decided to walk back to Redoak as described above, time to sample some bottles in a friendly environment, also close to just walk down there.
One of the guys at the bar had heard of my from the day before and was very happy to talk about the brewery and their bottled selection, also let me taste their saison, though from a bottle that had been opened a bit, so didn't rate it at this time. I did get two bottles and had them while chatting a bit.
Also this one lady and a dude were getting tipsy and silly, she challeneged him to the plank twice, in the bar! Had to take a pic as to show I am far from the only one who do silly and/or stupid stuff in bars.
 

The two beers I had from bottles this evening were
Redoak Berliner Weisse
Redoak Lambic Blackberry Wheat
 
After these beers walked back to my hostel and headed for bed.


July 12, 2013

Started by heading north from my hostel up Kent St.
 

Not a bad morning for walking, sunny, not that cold, morning traffic over. Got to see some inner city buildings.
 

After about 35 minutes got to my destination, Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel on 19 Kent Street, The Rocks. A1 south east on my map, A2 or same as "29" on page 70 of Lonely Planet.
 

Got there pretty spot on 11 am when they were supposed to open, but a few people had reached the place before me. They didn't serve tasting paddles, smallest serving was half pint with the other option full pint, and they had 7 of their own beers on tap. Well, I was there to sample beer, so got to it!
 

They had free WiFi, but they blocked sites that had alcohol content, such as ratebeer, always strikes me as weird when a place that sell aclohol has that rule, I guess they block their own website as well then?
Beers were served very cold, as many places in this country, the one thing that keeps bothering me. The porter was out, replaces with a seasonal stout instead. Very calk crowd when I arrived at 11 am, got busy at noon and almost crowded a while after that. Had the fish and chips for lunch just before the bigger crowd started pouring in. Nice surroundings outside, nice feeling to the place inside. Mainly makes you feel like you're in an English pub.
One gentleman behind the bar that was a bit older, other than that fairly young people tending the bar, mainly girls, not complaining, just explaining.
Since I had 7 half pints I spent quite some time here, not sure exactly when I left, but likely after 2 pm once I started walking to the next place on the list. All in all for Lord Nelson, a nice place, go visit!
 
Brewer: Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel
 
Place: Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel
 
Sampled 7 beers as half pints
Lord Nelson Trafalgar Pale Ale
Lord Nelson Quayle Ale
Lord Nelson Victory Bitter
Lord Nelson Three Sheets
Lord Nelson 111
Lord Nelson Old Admiral
Lord Nelson Annileation