A pub is for life not just for Christmas
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
In any other month, it might have been the Cambridge Blue or the Free Press (also in Cambridge), or possible the Greyhound or Ye Olde Rose & Crown (both in Stafford), but for a wholly unexpectedly pleasant find, I'll nominate the Dog & Fox in Ashley (just beyond the outskirts of Bradford-on-Avon).
I know London Calling will likely disagree with this,, but an early Saturday evenining found The Wenlock Arms full of a fantastic ambiance and good beer to boot.
Most definetely POTM despite some very good pubs visited this past month.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Pint Shop
It won't suit everybody,but I really appreciated the beer range on my visit.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
I disagree.
Leicester Arms Hotel Last pub of the year for us. Hotel really, the name says it all, but dogs and drinkers welcome , and well kept beer. A find.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
My pub of the month is the Beacon Hotel in Sedgley, an old favourite and I'm sure known by most of the correspondents on this site. I got here just after midday on a Saturday in early December and as the only new pub I had planned was just across the road had time to find a spot at the back of the right hand room and stay for three, a Green Hopped Pale, their winter Snowflake and a bizarre guest in the form of Brass Castle Pale Stout. The Jolly Crispin and Britannia in nearby Upper Gornal are strong competition but the Beacon keeps on shining.
POTM Beacon Hotel