Alexander's Bar & Kitchen - A Tasteem Review

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One of the contractors I work with will be leaving shortly, so last week we set out for some drinks and a bite to eat in the market town of Skipton, North Yorkshire where I happen to work…, for the moment.

I am not a great drinker and when driving, a non-drinker but went along anyway on the provision that it would not turn into a pub crawl or coke crawl for me.

Alexander’s Bar & Kitchen was to be the only precursor to our meal and I was thankful for that.

The place does serve food but for the sake of this review that falls under the Hive account@tasteem category ‘Beverages with Friends’, this will be purely liquid talk.

As I failed to obtain a photograph of the outside of Alexander’s on the night we visited I took one a few days later. At least you can see the outside clearly as it is daytime.

On entering Alexander’s Bar & Kitchen I was struck with the layout and ambience. It reminded me more of a German bar than somewhere in North Yorkshire.

Besides us and a family eating the place was empty. Pubs are still struggling to make it in the UK with many closing every week and I feel they need to offer something other than just beer to survive.

This point came in my mind as the other guys were ordering their pints of ‘Goldies’.

‘What is Goldies?’, I asked them (It’s beer, no shit!).

‘Try it’, said another. I did and what a beer! Smooth, with a great after-taste.

The thing that sucked is that I was driving and won’t drink and drive.

I was curious about this beer so questioned the bartender.

‘Goldies is an exclusive beer and will be staying on tap until we can’t get it anymore’.

This is not the same as these other beers that are displayed on the back wall. They are all purchasable only for the limited time they are shown.

In a week or maybe two weeks, the one on the extreme left will fall off and they all move along one place to the left and another will replace the empty slot on the extreme right.

‘Wildbeer Millionaire Salted Caramel Stout' won't be available much longer and when it's gone it won't be coming back.

They all sounded really good, and I can't say I have tried a 'Salted Caramel Stout' before?

It’s a unique rotation system and may keep people coming back to try the new beers.

I know I’ll be back there just so I can savour a pint of that fantastic ‘Goldies’.

The barman recommended, ‘Delerium, Best Beer in the World’. At 7.5% it sure does have a kick and I have at least a few weeks before it slips off the left edge to give it a go.

It's not Saturday but I feel a story like this is worthy of the #beersaturday tag, so I will add it as an entry for Hive account@detlev's great beer writing incentive!