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SkimmingtonCastle.com is a tribute to all things British, and all things that should be British, including the American colonies … long live the commonwealth!
The site is named after one of our favourite pubs,
the Skimmington Castle, located south of the Heath
in Reigate, Surrey. You know it's a great pub when
on your first visit, as you drive down Bonny's Road
across the golf course, your driver points out a
bunker and rhapsodizes, "I slept in that bunker
one night."
The ale selection at "The Skim" is respectable
enough, but we don't go there for the ale. A night
on The Skim is a night of cider, Addlestone's Cider,
to be specific. As any local git will tell you,
"One pint is too many, and ten pints is too few."
(A translation for the uninitiated Americans … think
of the Lays Potato Chip tag line, "Bet you can't eat
just one.")
Addlestone's Cider is not one of those mass produced
alcopops like Woodchuck or K. Oh, no. Addlestone's
is cloudy and mysterious. In fact, it is a cider
that drinks like a meal.
So, please join two colonials, two gits, and a variety
of special guests as we celebrate silliness, explore
the "other side of the pond" and relish in the lifestyle that
is fashionably Git.
