The Blue Anchor 50 Coinagehall St, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 8EL, England. Tel +44 1326 562821.

Review last updated Feb 2004.

The Blue Anchor is a pub that brews for itself. It doesn't produce a huge quantity of beer: barrels rarely leave the pub, and even more rarely leave Cornwall. Once a barrel got as far east as the Village in Salisbury, where I tried it.

All Blue Anchor beers are called 'something Spingo' or 'Spingo something'. Now I really don't recall what kind of Spingo it was I drank. But I do remember that it was superb. It was a really dark black beer, absolutely packed with flavour. It stuck in my memory as once of the best beers I had ever tasted - possibly the best of all time.