One Pint Tankard

[Bishop]

The air in the shed tonight is thick with smell of hot beeswax, sweet with honey combined with notes of pine resin and the pervasive pong of cheap paraffin hissing noisily in the tilley lamp. After much faffing with string, fingertips sore from prodding hot resin and fighting a constant urge to just cheat and use the tube of epoxy in the bottom of the toolbox the magic happens and another bark tankard is done.

 

[Robson Valley]

Like owning a knife, would medieval people have owned a personal drinking tankard?

 

[Bishop]

I think there would be good case for owning a personal drinking vessel. Though a less common practice nowadays some older traditional pubs in the UK still do keep personal tankards for regulars hanging over the bar.

 

[Alan De Enfield]

I think there would be good case for owning a personal drinking vessel. Though a less common practice nowadays some older traditional pubs in the UK still do keep personal tankards for regulars hanging over the bar.

Do many pubs keep customers 'hanging over the bar" ?