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Hello my fellow twuddlers.
After an amazingly successful (approximately 20-30 people) inaugural #twuddle Tunbridge Wells Real Ale Pub Crawl in November 2010, and promising to run them once a quarter, @MrCRTW and myself @mannyvw have finally got around to organising the 2nd Tunbridge Wells Real Ale Pub Crawl nearly 18 months later 
Starting after lunch around 2pm on Sunday 4th March 2012 at the Ragged Trousers on the Pantiles. We will then visit around 8 Tunbridge Wells pubs, consuming a half of a real ale in each pub, in half an hour and then moving onto the next pub, giving ourselves walking time between pubs. A kitty will organised for those who will be having the recommended ale in each pub, non-real ale drinkers and people who will only be joining us for part of the pub crawl please organise your own drinks.
Myself and @MrCRTW will again be choosing 8 Tunbridge Wells pubs, although the exact list and route is still being worked out, the great news is, in the time since the last pub crawl, 2 excellent new real ale pubs have opened and we will be adding them to the list, we will also be switching some of the pubs around, so we both look forward to seeing you on the pubcrawl, more details nearer the time.
Thanks
Update 25th January
The #twpubcrawl will start as mentioned at the The Ragged Trousers at 2pm on Sunday 4th where we will collect £12 from each person who wishes to join in on the recommended beer in each of the pubs. Please buy your own drink in the Ragged as am expecting people to arrive at different times and it will be difficult to keep track who has had theirs. Once we know numbers we will leave the Ragged Trousers around 2.30pm and then visit the following pubs, spending approximatly half an hour in each pub:-
The Compasses
The Royal Oak
The Wells Kitchen
Sankeys
Beau Nash
After the Beau Nash we will make our way to the The Bedford for a beer bat, which comprises of 3 1/3 pints of beer served on….well a bat (so 1 pint in total), Mark from The Bedford has also kindly agreed to lay on some pub snacks comprising of their excellent scotch eggs, Port Pies & Sausage rolls. If there is any cash left in the kitty at this point can use towards further beers
There is now a Facebook event for the pub crawl Please click on attending if you would like to join us, and use hashtag #twpubcrawl on twitter. Thanks
Hello my fellow twuddlers.
@MrCRTW and myself @mannyvw are organizing the first ever #twuddle Tunbridge Wells Real Ale Pub Crawl, to celebrate the excellent real ale pubs in Tunbridge Wells.
Starting after lunch around 2pm on Sunday 21st November (so everyone can get a good lunch lining in their stomachs) at the Sussex Arms. We will then visit 8 Tunbridge Wells pubs, consuming a half of a real ale in each pub, in half an hour and then moving onto the next pub, giving ourselves walking time between pubs we hope to be at the final pub, the now home of #twuddle Sankey’s around 7pm. People are then welcome to continue sampling Sankey’s fine selection of ales or retire for a good lay down.
Update
Twuddle Real Ale Pub Crawl – Sunday 21st November 2010
Myself @MrCRTW & @MGGoode had the arduous task of visiting all the pubs on the Real Ale Pub Crawl to find out what ales will be on offer, they are list below. For those who are drinking real ale and want to go with the recommended ales we will run a kitty of £15 per person for a half of real ale in each pub.
If you are not drinking real ale, and just fancy coming along, or meeting up with at Sankey’s, please do, but please bear in mind we will be moving on quite quickly, you can keep track of us on foursquare am sure plenty #twuddlers will be checking in.
* = recommended selection
The Sussex Arms, 2pm start, sharp! Leaving 2:30
Royal Tunbridge Wells Porter, *Jekylls Gold + 2x guest ales to be announced
on @TWSussexArms this week
>5 mins walking time
Duke of York 2.35pm Leaving 3:05
Harveys Sussex Best, *Sharps Doombar, Greene King Abbot Ale + 1 guest
ale
>10 mins walking time
Grove Tavern 3.15pm Leaving 3:45
*Landlord’s Timothy Taylor, Harveys Sussex Best + 2x guest ales to be
announced on Grove Tavern website this week
>20 mins walking time
The Royal Oak 4.05pm Leaving 4:35
Larkins Traditional, Harveys Sussex Best, *Darkstar (TBC) + 1 guest ale on
Facebook Group this week
>20 mins walking time
Rose & Crown 4.55pm Leaving 5:25
*Hobgobblin, Harveys Sussex Best, Greene King IPA
>20 mins walking time
Mount Edgecombe 5.45pm Leaving 6:15
*Harveys Sussex Best & Harveys Sussex Old Ale
>10 mins walking time
The Beau Nash 6.25pm Leaving 6.55
Adnams Bitter, *Bombadier, Harveys Sussex Best
>5 mins walking time
Sankey’s 7pm Leaving ???????
*Joey’s Bite & Gouchers.
Quite selfishly as I couldn’t make the actual xmas twuddle last week which sounded fantastic (although I little disappointed best beard wasn’t a category might have been in with chance), I would like to invite the #twuddle collective to a special xmas twuddle meetup and the High Brooms Tavern.
For those who do not know the High Brooms Tavern it is a unique pub is Tunbridge Wells, it is very much a locals pub but friendly, large and out of the way, most people have driven by it many times and never known it was there, mainly because they are concentrating on not crashing into the cars on the narrow one way system where it is located.
The High Brooms tavern is split into two parts the main bar is usually where the locals reside, the second area to the left as you walk in is a large area with a fixed seating area, a few tables and pool table. It has an opening onto the end of the bar where you are served, the bar serves the usual lagers and a single real ale, seem to remember it was an unusual one.
What makes this pub unique is the unusual objects hanging from the ceiling and walls, everything from a 1800′s diving helmet, an aeroplane propeller, some very old bicycles, a medieval style door size rack of spikes and much much more, most seems to be props as they are obviously made from balsa wood but the effect it very striking. If you have not been I wholly recommend popping in, its not the sort of place you would make an effort to go to very often if its out of your way but I know a few people who live around there who pop in now and again.
Date: Tuesday 22nd December
Time: From 7.30pm, until closing time
Place: High Brooms Tavern, 102 High Brooms Rd,Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9BQ
Refreshments: Mince pies and Sloe gin (landlord permitting)
Directions: Walk drive down Upper Grosvenor Road, over roundabout into North Farm Rd, past High Broom Station on right, turn left into High Brooms Rd, follow one way system around past High Brooms Working Men’s Club, HBT it on the right
Trains: For those traveling in by train, if running of course, or those who would prefer to get train from TW as its a fair walk down Upper Grosvenor Road, the High Brooms Tavern is 5 mins walk from High Brooms station. Out of station turn right follow instructions above.
Links: UrbanKite Drink Tunbridge Wells
