One small glass of vintage Lafite every evening," he adds, "is much more pleasurable than three pints of house red".
A pint glass houses standard-issue lager, while one tumbler is host to what I surmise to be a multiple shot of brandy and Baileys.
On top of that, we have about 300 free shots, and all pints and house spirit/mixer combos are £2.50.
Here was a world in miniature: pint-sized houses with gardens producing king-sized vegetables in satisfying rows, and lights that glow across the hillside as the sun goes down.
The menu, which changes twice a month, includes sandwiches (grilled steak with crumbled blue cheese, caramelized onions and roasted tomatoes, with a side salad of mixed greens, $7), salads (smoked mushrooms, artichoke hearts and roasted peppers, $3.25 for a half-pint) and house-made doughnuts (warm beignets with chocolate and pistachio centers, $2 for two).
The biggest cheer came when you heard Kate's new title – everyone had a pint on the house!
Few things in the world of beer taste as sweet as a pint on the house, and cask-focused brewery MacLeod Ale Brewing Co. is offering membership in their 54-degrees Founders Club that means you'll never pay for a pint of ale at their bar again.
He's running around, fanning the wood fire grill, pulling pints of the house beer he makes flavored with fennel and orange flowers from the property, bringing a visitor across a field to point out the pink peppercorn plants and the carob trees he uses to make ice cream.
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, T. J. Burnham, the head butcher at Marlow & Daughters, has for four months sold $6 pints of his house dog-food blend: raw lean beef and beef liver, combined with cooked chicken, carrots, celery and barley, splashed with cider vinegar to aid in digestion.
01687 462267, theoldforge.co.uk Readers who are prone to seasickness might prefer a waterside pint in the Canal House, which has part of the local canal actually running through it.
Plump for a pint of Snowdonia, the house ale from Porthmadog-based Purple Moose Brewery, or do your bit for social enterprise and ask for one of the artisan brews from the pub's sister business, Cwrw Iâl Brewery.
