*sad face* don’t go changing W&P (apart from allowing JB through the door)

End of an era. Best beer in town. I hope the new owner keeps up the tradition.

Canberra’s only decent pub to shut? Say it ain’t so.

Well hopefully the purchaser will want to keep it going along current lines only friendlier to freakbikes and music.

Banishment?

Maybe the new owner will start brewing a cider or even a yummy rice beer, instead of acting like a knob about the fact that some people don’t eat wheat and barley!

Let’s hope for a small (ala Phoenix) stage out the back and live, original music.

Much like Filthy’s used to do before it closed.

Damn. Their APAs were absolutely stunning. That Rumpole stuff … (licks chops and goes off into a beer dream). I’d love to hear that the brewer is heading into bottled brewing. Their APAs would rival Little Creatures Pale Ale.

let’s hope another artist wants to take it on for business as usual…

The Rumpole isn’t an American Pale Ale (APA), it’s an English Pale Ale. They’re very different beers, but I do agree that the Rumpole is delicious.

BimboGeek said :

Maybe the new owner will start brewing a cider or even a yummy rice beer, instead of acting like a knob about the fact that some people don’t eat wheat and barley!

As opposed to acting like a knob about the fact that some people choose to cater to a market that may not suit your needs?

It tastes very similar to most APAs I’ve had. Little Creatures PA is an APA, and I’m pretty sure someone in the W & P said they used Cascade hops, which is a classic APA hop. Similar to Sierra Nevada PA, except better than that. Didn’t taste like an English ale at all, to me, unless they gave me the wrong one. I asked for an APA, and they said Rumpole, and even noted that the name wasn’t terribly American.