Beer, Distinguished Gentlemen & Bikes!!

rynow (73)in #beersaturday • 7 years ago

Beer, Distinguished Gentlemen & Bikes!!

Today was the day of the Distinguished Gentlemen's Ride, which is a worldwide charity bike ride for men's health awareness, with the emphasis on prostate cancer. Our merry band of classic BMW riders decided to join the ride. The starting point for this ride was in Johannesburg, but being from Pretoria, we met at 6:45 at a local filling station. We were 7 riders all on classic BMW's ranging from 1958 to 1981 models. (6 of the bikes were older than 1969!!) On the photo below, we made a quick pit-stop, to stretch our legs.

On the next two photos below you can see some of the 800 strong crowd gathering at the starting point in Johannesburg.

Below we are departing to the oldest bar / club in Johannesburg.

Below you can see the nice staircase at the entrance of the club, as you can see this place has a real old-school charm.

Below you can see some of the people having a great time in the club.

Below you can see some of the bikes from the first story, bikes were parked in all directions around the club.

The photo below shows the outside of this magnificent building. After having a nice cold beer, we hit the road to the military museum where we took a group photo. (I had a Windhoek Draft on which I did a post before, thus I will not write about this particular beer)

Below is the monument at the military museum, where the group photo was taken, I don't have a photo of the group as I was in the photo!! We gathered on the stairs and grass in front of the monument for the photo.

Then we hit the road to Melrose Arch, which is an area consisting mostly of restaurants, pubs and some boutique type shops, after parking we headed straight to a nice little pub. Below you can see the on tap section, it looks very nice with the the brass mounted taps!!

I decided to go for the Punk Rockers Pale Ale brewed by Poison City Brewing in Durban. It just sounded right for the occasion!!

Below you can see a bit more of the bar area and the barman performing his trade!!

Below you can see the fruit of the barman's labor, two perfect beers - nice - look at the condensation on that glass!!

To top it all of the beer had a very nice big white foamy head!!

Below you can see a bit more of the corner we occupied.

This beer was again an excellent craft beer, it did not have a very strong malt taste and also was not very bitter, this one is a real easy drinking beer, I would say this is a good beer to use as introduction to people who are not used to craft beers.

Below you can see the selection of craft beers this pub offers. I loved the beer, but must say this was the most expensive beer that I had in my life at R65.00 a beer, which equates to around $5.00.

We did a round trip of about 130 km, with no problems for the entire route!! We had a great time and enjoyed ourselves a lot, with great bikes and good friends and excellent beers in beautiful weather, what more can one ask for.

If you enjoyed this post, please go and vote for my comment in the #beersaturday contest as hosted by @detlev, this will help me to win the competition and as a bonus you can read some more nice beer posts. Click on the link #BeerSaturday and search for my comment, then vote on my comment. You can always enter the competition yourself with a nice beer post and you could win some SBD. (You don't have to post on Saturday any day is fine)

If you would like to read more about the Distinguished Gentleman's ride click on the link. At the time of writing over $2 400 000.00 has been raised world wide.

These photos were taken by me using my iPhone.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.

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