Four Alls Inn, Burnley

Quite busy early evening as a thunderstorm raged outside, covering the car park with a carpet of hailstones. I found a place to perch with my half of Odin, a blonde beer from Brimstone, a Manchester brewery whose beers I don't recall seeing in Yorkshire. Others were Filly Close, a blonde ale from local Reedley Hallows brewery; Saltaire Blonde, a blonde ale from Saltaire in West Yorkshire; and Timothy Talor Golden Best, a light mild. I don't think I've seen such a uniformly, resolutely pale beer line up before. Anyway, my half of the Odin was just £1.75 (NBSS 3.5), so I'm not really complaining. (I'd had the Filly Close in another pub the same afternoon, and it was very good.) This seemed like a friendly, welcoming pub, though it seemed like it was being run by three or four teenage girls. This impression was removed when the publican checked up on my inability to charge my phone from the sockets near my high chair - it seemed there were two sets of sockets, one functional, the other not so much, and I had chosen the wrong ones. Better luck next time.

The only pub in the village of Higham, the Four Alls has a pub sign featuring a clergyman, a king, a soldier and a worker, constituting the Four Alls. Inside, there is a saloon bar to the left, which was showing horse racing on a TV screen. Off to the right was a sub-divided room with the bar to the left and a small drinking area with a larger lounge/dining area. The young staff were quite friendly. 4 ales on were Prospect Silver Tally, Oakham Inferno, Reedley Hallows Filly Close Blonder & Timothy Taylor Boltmaker. My Silver Tally was in good form.