Lyndhurst Through the Beer Glass Pt 3 - Waterloo Arms

The tale of a September 2019 pub walk in Lyndhurst continues...

Leaving the White Rabbit we were confronted with what was, at the time, a common scene in Lyndhurst - the traffic jam of tourists visiting the New Forest. Though, in a coronavirus world, traffic jams were, for a while, just a thing of the past, there are now signs that, at least in this respect, ‘the old normal’ might be returning quite quickly....

A short distance up a country lane the hum of the queuing traffic faded away and the next pub came into view in all it’s thatched and flowery finery...The Waterloo Arms

Inside the hand pumps were festooned with brightly coloured pump clips, promising an extravaganza of craft cask.  On closer inspection, it turned out that the clips on the left were cider, and those on the right were Ringwood beers (and the beer that shall not be named).  I recall feeling slightly disappointed, as Ringwood beers are so ubiquitous in the Forest.  Now it occurs to me that if pubs (and I) survive to see post coronavirus Britain,  I may be grateful to see a Ringwood beer on bars full of the beer that shall not be named.  A doom beer scenario if ever there was one...

Opting to head outside again, into the warm and sunny September afternoon and a large and well patronised beer garden.... 

...where the Forty-niner went down rather well...

...as did Martin’s keggy, lagery drink, beating my Forty-niner in the lacings competition though the tall glass (and unnecessary fizziness) was deemed to be an unfair advantage.

And so after the quiet refinement of the Waterloo Arms beer garden, and without so much a mention of Alice In Wonderland, we continued out into the wilderness of the New Forest to find the next pub on our Through the Beer Glass pub walk.