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ONE PUB ONLY?
The Moot
CRAWLING FROM RAILWAY STATION TO THE GROUND?
Newshouse, The Moot and then Lord Nelson before a walk to the ground
SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT?
Victoria
|  | Newshouse
123 Canal St,. NG1 7HB Telephone 0115 9502419 W castlerockbrewery.co.uk
G Bob Fairclough
F Fresh Rolls From 11
SP SK BM P D
O 11 to 11
The Newshouse is a top pub of the old kind. It has real locals of all professions, ages and interests. It offers a lounge and a bar complete with darts board and bar skittles. Most importantly, the ales come from beyond the predictable norm and are in great condition. My visit found teachers, printers and posties among others chatting around the bar over a post-work beer. The walls have Forest cuttings and other items from the alleged days of the place being a reading room for the local illiterate. I particularly enjoyed the bar tiles proclaiming the names of regional independent brewers. All in all this is a great town pub, in an area with few residents, which suggests the nearby station and tram provides the link to home and town party venues. I just had to go back later to play the bar billiards near to last orders and get some Black Bear to round off a perfect day.
UPDATE: Plans are afoot for an extension to the rear in the next few years.
BWV 23.3.05: Beartown Black Bear, Coach House Rabbit Punch, Crouch Vale Blackwater Mild, Everards Perfick, Harvest Pale, Hop Back Summer Lightning, Weston’s Old Rosie
BWV 20.10.05: Castle Rock Daily Gold, Hemlock, Everards Tiger, Rebellion Mutiny, Mauldons Suffolk Pride, Moles Rucking Mole, Weston’s Old Rosie Cider
CAMRA LOCAL POTY 2009 |  | The Lord Nelson
13 Thurgarton Rd, Sneinton, NG2 4GU Telephone 0115 9110069
G Laura Hattersley
F All home cooked menu with a wide range of meals from steaks to sandwiches, vegetarian specialities 12 to 2.30, 12 to 3 Sun SP TV BM P
O 11 to 11 Mon - Thu, 11 to 12.30 Fri - Sat, 11 to 11 Sun
Sneinton is one of those red - brick inner city suburbs that is becoming highly desirable due to its [proximity to an ever expanding city centre leisure industry. “The White House” is the anachronistic jewel in Sneinton’s crown. Forget the nearby windmill or the views over the city this farmhouse pub is the most remarkable sight in the Nottingham pub scene. As the photo suggests the pub is best seen from the pub garden where it is in all senses of the definition a country farmhouse left as an island in the Victorian urban expansion. When you go inside it then gets even better. Good quality Hardys and Hanson ale, great chatty bar staff and a classic four roomed cottage await the thirsty drinker. It is no wonder that the CAMRA drinkers at the Nottingham Beer Festival said that this was a not - miss pub.
The pub will be very busy on those hot summer days and most evenings, especially at the weekend. It is not a footie pub; the locals are more likely to engage in watching the rugby or a grand prix on the TV than chatting about the woes of Forest or County. The community function is seen in the University of Sneinton honours board. One wonders what you have to do to be listed. The two regular beers are supplemented by seasonal guests. The food offers some simple choices and the walk to the ground is easy as, unlike the arrival. all is now downhill.
BWV 4.4.06: Hardys and Hanson Bitter, Old Kim, Olde Trip |  | The Moot
29 Carlton Rd NG3 2DG Telephone 0115 9504170
G Bob ??
F Rolls and sandwiches
SP SK BM P D
O 11 to 11, 12 to 10.30 Sun
The Old Moot Hall is a bit of a misnomer. It is a converted church hall / motor cycle shop that is now a great real ale house that echoes and then reverberates to the sound of contented beer drinkers. It has all the design features of its former religious existence and reverence for good companionship is found in every conversation. The beers are ever rotating but will include those of the owner Tom Woods as standard offerings.. There will be some rare examples for tickers to find as well as many from the East Midlands that are special seasonal brews.
As a result people travel fair distances to visit the Old Moot. On Saturdays the sports bias is likely to be for rugby rather than the County. During the week it is Ice Hockey that generates the largest gatherings of strangers. I was guided to this pub from the real ale festival in the nearby Victoria Halls and a good recommendation it was too. On my latest visit the sky sports was showing cricket from India while a reunion of old buddies was in full flow, sending the youngest pensioner to the bar for the beers. The bar itself is simply furnished in a refectory style. The floor is appropriately still timbered and the walls plain to avoid any distractions from the serious business of going through the list before the ale changes again. It was with some reluctance that I left the warmth of the fireside to find the next pub.
BWV 5.4.06: Black Sheep Bitter, Castle Rock Elsie Mo, Fyne Vital Spark, Kelham Island Easy Rider, Rother Valley Level Best, Tom Wood Bitter, Lincolnshire Legend, Tring Tapster’s, White Horse Bitter, Weston’s Old Rosie |  | The Malt Shovel
1 Union ST Beeston NG8 2LU Telephone 0115 9222320
G Keith and Patricia Brand
F Good value menu to suit all tastes 12 to 3, 5.30 to 8.30 Mon - Sat, 12 to 3 Sun
CP TV BM P D
O 11 to 11 Mon - Thu, 11 to 12 Fri - Sat, 12 to 11 Sun
When pubs get modernised there is always a fear that they lose their traditional roots. The changes at the Malt Shovel show this does not have to be the case. Keith and Pat have a traditional theme very much embedded in all they do and as a result the Malt Shovel has become a pub which has a growing reputation throughout the Nottingham real ale scene.
The pub lies in a side street just off Beestons main shopping street. The welcome was positively enthusiastic and I warmed to the new design The regulars are likely to be of the more mature profile but students and young couples also find the place to be welcoming and rewarding.. The University interest is more likely to be from the postgraduate rather than undergraduate role. It has been opened up to create separate drinking areas each with s the choice for quiet seclusion or group partying. The best section is near the fire that would become very cosy on long winter evenings. Andy joined in our chat about local pubs and how this really is a proper locals’ pub. There will not be loads of children; the fans on a Saturday will more likely be lamenting the rugby club to Trent Bridge. Pat and Keith have 30 or more years of running pubs and no doubt that experience is part of what makes this local so special. Three ales rotate each week around a regular appearance of Nottingham Rock Bitter and Mild.
BWV 5.6.06: Caledonian Six Nations, Milestone Ruby, Nottingham Rock Bitter, Rock Mild, Titanic Lifeboat |  | Victoria Hotel
Dovecote Lane Beeston NG8 1JG Telephone 0115 9254049 W www.thevictoriabeeston.co.uk
G Neil Kelso
F Really good quality Mediterranean - influenced menu, all freshly cooked on site 12 to 8.45 Mon - Sat, 12 to 7.45 Sun CP D
O 11 to 11, 12 to 10.30 Sun
The Victoria is unmissable from the main line railway as it approaches Beeston station. It is also essential visiting and should be visited at least once by any serious lover of great pubs and ales.
It was purpose built in 1899. Neil has created a living testament to how great pubs should, and can be, maintained, being popular due to good management and great beer. There are two separate rooms of very different sizes. The larger, left hand room was very busy mid - afternoon with those wanting to eat and drink. If that bar was mussels and ale, then the right hand bar was much more beer and sandwiches. It is not a football pub; it doesn’t even have a TV. The beer festivals are legendary, check out their website for timings. The breweriana is also of particular note because it is totally in keeping in this beautiful, high - ceilinged station bar style room. The beers are ever changing but always include a Bateman’s choice and real cider. The wine list is also extensive, the menu unusual and as a result the clientele is very mixed and decidedly relaxed. If you want a change from the town centre attractions then the Victoria is a great choice for a pre match pint.
BWV 5.4.06: Bateman Dark Mild, Spring Breeze, Brewster’s Hophead, Burton Bridge Bramble Stout, Castle Rock Harvest Pale, Hemlock, Ryland’s Gold, Everards Tiger, Holt Bitter, Ossett Common Wealth, Wentworth WPA, Biddenden Bushel’s Kentish cider, Thatcher’s Medium cider |  | | NOTTINGHAM CAMRA | MEADOW LANE |  | 
LOCAL BREWERY
CASTLE ROCK BREWERY
Queensbridge Road,
Nottingham.
NG2 1NB
Tel. 0115 9851615
www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk
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