Bought last August by Chris Jere - who also owns the Belle Vue pub, a favourite student haunt in upper Bangor - the Tap and
Spile was closed for three months and reopened at the end of November.
The taps or
spiles typically come in two sizes--5/16-inch and 7/16-inch--so make sure your bit matches the size of your
spile.
All you need is a drill, a spout (or
spile), and a bucket or other container to collect the sap.
According to the survey, people on Merseyside used to say "backend", instead of autumn, in the 1950s, and called a splinter a "
spile".
Before he came to Tynemouth, Mr Irving once featured in the Guinness Book of Records for the most beers served in a public house after putting on 120 different real ales and 16 ciders for a week-long festival at the Tap and
Spile pub in Hendon, Sunderland, in 1996.
Next, a spout, or
spile, is gently hammered into the hole.
Members of the One Life Racing triathlon club, which caters for children as well as adults, took part in sprint races between the County Hotel and the Tap and
Spile pub, before the arrival of the tour.
Barrett gave each of the children attending the museum's sugaring program a bag with a
spile (a tap) and a coupon for 10 percent off any of the store's sugaring supplies.
UXBRIDGE - In "Catching Fire," the second book of the best-selling Hunger Games Trilogy, the heroine saves her teammates' lives by using a
spile. If you don't know how to use a
spile, or even what a
spile is, then the Maple Sugar Days at River Bend Farm is the place to learn.
Its people are aching to progress, in
spile of the ghosts of ideology and circumstance.
You drill a hole and place a
spile in it to work as a tiny faucet.
He and his friends went to a pub just off Broad Street, possibly the Tap and
Spile in Gas Street.
'The Tap and
Spile' pub in the city centre was another good live music venue that has been forced to close.
Surrounded by jugs of syrup, clouds of steam rolling off a vat, and the curious throngs of visitors who inspect yellowed news clippings that paper the walls from festivals past, it's hard to imagine that much has changed since shiny machines replaced bucket and wooden
spile. Or that a hundred years from now, it could all be gone.
We've always told her not to lie." +++++ JACK MERRY is selling deep fried battered Cadbury Creme Eggs at his Tap and
Spile pub in York.
