The Beer

A pale brown session bitter, with a balanced but firm malty / bitter profile.  Brewed with English grown Target, First Gold & Fuggle hops
 

The Name

Well, like most areas around old Coach Roads (the A10 London-Cambridge route, and the old Great North Road), North Hertfordshire has a few tales of road based banditry.  Including of course one Dick Turpin, who was indeed a local lad, having been born & raised just a few miles to the east of Buntingford. 
 

The Pump Clip

Well, it's Tarquin the Dandy Bandit, a well known historical tea leaf of this manor.  Famed for his love of a cup or two down the juicer of a night, he seemed a logical choice for the pump clip.  He was best known for his policy of stealing from the rich to buy drinks for the poor young farm hands of the area (unless they were able to run away first), his trademark phrases have survived the years equally well.

Alleged to have inspired several of the Carry-On films, even now his old haunts are said to ring with cries of 'Ooohh, look at the jewels on him' and 'Put your hands up where I can feel them'.
 

The Trivia

Contrary to popular myth, the highways were not as dangerous in days of yore as they are now.  How many of us have not been mugged for every penny whilst innocently attempting to obtain either sustenance or fuel whilst travelling the highways of this land?