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Another visit - A good little Freehouse that can get some really interesting beers. Cannot get these in your local pub owned by pub co - chain antiseptic multi-nationals.Treasure it.
Vive the difference.
cheers
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A very interesting place, with a super selection of ales. Food is also good. I've now visited a few times and the staff have always been friendly and knowledgable about the beers.
Cracking place to sit outside, front or back, on a sunny day and sample a few of the ales.
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As most others have said, The White Horse has a great selection of beers. The thing I like best is the fact that it's one of the only pubs I know that has a nice Belgian stong beer on tap. However, they only have one at a time (per month), and sometimes it's one of those fruit beers...which I don't like. As far as their other beer, I have had one or two that might have been reaching their age limit, but I suppose that's expected when you try to keep so many beers...many of which are largely unknown. The place is great when the weather is nice...to sit either in front, or the back garden. Never ate there, so can't comment on that. Worth a visit.
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Excellent pub - great choice of real ales and guest beers, and a lovely atmosphere. Food is excellent and well. A perfect place to end up in after a walk in the countryside around pretty Hedgerley village.
Well worth a visit.
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Beer from Microbrewers will always be expensive to procure. Small-scale production means larger cost overheads. Simple economic theory.
I personally applaud their active promotion of microbreweries. It gives small businesses an exposure that they won't get in tied houses. Most breweries started off as micros many moons ago. There'll always be a few beers that aren't that great served up, but there'll be some crackers. Sober's Six Sixes is a particularly memorable beer I had in the WH last year.
If you want a Dark Star/Hopback/Grand Union/Sharps there are plenty of places that serve them!!
Except Grand Union, which is now defunct, bar a few barrels sitting in cellars waiting to be tapped...
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What a lovely traditional pub and used to be the best pub in England, BUT the choice of beer on my last few visits (Saturdays 12th, 19th, 26th January)has been awful - Micro breweries so small they taste like they are brewed in garden sheds. Oh for a Dark Star/Hopback/Grand Union/Sharpes etc. Why is the beer so expensive here ? I drink in pubs in London where most beers of similar gravity come out 20-30 pence cheaper. I think in future I'll leave this once good pub to the real ale tickers in their anoraks. Very dissappointing.
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Imagine a picture postcard English village pub - this is it! Idyllic setting, excellent beer (range, variety and quality), good food. Legendary beer festivals. Probably my favourite pub, sha,me it's so far from Leeds.
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Now this is what I call an PUB!!!
Beer well kept, very good and varied choice of ales. A sociable and well informed Landlord (certainly knows his brews). No fancy fonts, all drawn from the barrel.
It is friendly, cosy, and clean, the idyllic English Pub, what a pity that most others have turned into plastic palaces more worthy of a McDonald's sign outside!
I urge you to pay this haven a visit as soon as you can
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Fantastic and deservedly popular country pub, top beers, good garden, beer festivals.
Can't undertsand why this place is showing such a low rating at the moment. If you love beer, you'll love this pub.
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Simply the best for real ale, with informed bar staff who instinctively know who's next! Food a bit iffy but who cares with this superb team of enthusiasts.
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"Go there for the superbly kept and varied beer, the hot fires on a cold winter's evening and the feeling of an old pub run in the way that pubs are supposed to be run..."
Yup, I think that's a fair assessment...
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This pub has been voted SWM CAMRA pub of the year has done on many occassions. The beer range is superb and the landlord knows his ale. There are also two ciders and a belgian beer on draft.
The clientel is a mixture of locals and beer lovers alike. Coversation is not spoilt by a juke box or a games machine. This is how a country pub should be.
Many different types of people go to the beer festivals and that makes it much more fun. My friends and fellow drinkers are neither Estate Agents, overweight clerical assistants, yuppies or faux farmers, however, we know a good pub when we see one!!
If you want Fullers, Shepherd Neame and other such boring brands, then go somewhere else. Go here if you want to try well kept different beers from small, new and unknown brewers.
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good unless you dain to venture into the locals bar wearing a turban. Shame ignorance is still rife... just want a quiet pint.
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One of the best for real ales with a huge selection which varies daily. Forget the food which is not great but just go for the beer. The staff are friendly and the clientel mixed. The beer festivals get very busy but are definitely worth visiting. Bring a non-drinking driver though.
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What a funny place?! The Barman couldn't tell me anything about the Beer that was available, so I rather feel that there was not a lot of point in employing him in the first place!! Not a good experience.
Alain - 30 Dec 2006 18:09 |
The beer is varied and usually pretty good, although quite overpriced. Half the time you get the feeling you're drinking the same old stuff but with a catchy ~ stupid name that you'll never encounter again in your life.
The clientel is a sorry mix between yuppies and people having adulterous liasons in the lounge area through to green welly wearing yuppies and faux farmers from low cost local housing dominating one of the three tables in the tiny public bar, waffling on about the old times (mostly droning on about fiddling the tax man, old blues music and ancient English motorcycles). Fine if you get off on those things, very dull if you don't.
The food is dire beyond description. Stay away from it at all costs or pay heavily for the crap salads, dreadful scotch eggs and indifferent occasional hot dishes. The worst that English cooking can possibly provide, salmonella disguised as nourishment.
The beer festivals are swamped by estate agents called Nigel and bedraggled overweight clerical assistants from Ealing. Well worth avoiding.
Go there for the superbly kept and varied beer, the hot fires on a cold winter's evening and the feeling of an old pub run in the way that pubs are supposed to be run.
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Visited yesterday on the way back from a disappointing trip to Birmingham. This made up for it even if it did cost a fortune in cab fares. Would give it a 10 but it's such a pain to get to. Anybody who likes their real ales or traditional pubs should give this place a visit, just find a tee-total driver.
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Wow! This place is immense!
Can't really add anything new to whats been said below...quality beer, friendly staff, lovely atmosphere...A perfect 10 every time!
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An absolute must if you're a real ale drinker. Always a big selection and it has such a charm about the place. The drawbacks are the size - it's tiny - and the fact it is in the middle of nowhere so someone has to drive.
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What luck, this is my local! Winner of the CAMRA best pub award five years in a row, the White Horse was excluded from voting to give someone else a go! The main beer festival is held on the 2nd bank holiday in May (130 ales, perrys, ciders) but most bank holidays will have a smaller version (about 30 different ales.
The the ales on offer change extremely frequently but old favourites will keep popping up.
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This is one of the few gems left in the world. A good old fashioned pub, flag-stones in the public bar and a proper fireplace. 7 real ales and 2 ciders. Good food too. Worth trying to find.
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What a pub!! two minutes from J2 of the M40 and well worth the detour. A small flagstone bar with inglenook seat, the lounge is not much bigger, and plenty of garden seating. This pub had 6 real ales on gravity when I visited, mostly from tiny breweries. The hot food is good and extremely cheap for the are, and the cold buffet/deli is to die for.
All of this plus pleasnt young bar staff who actually know what they are doing gets the pub a 10 vote.
Jimbo Smith - 4 Sep 2004 09:01 |
8 Real ales from the cask every day, quality food, no kids, gaming machines or musak. Friendly staff. What more can you want
Jonathan - 19 Aug 2004 13:55 |
One of the best pubs I've had the pleasure of visiting. Real ales, real ciders, nice garden, beautiful surroundings (in the middle of nowhere, and takes a little finding first time) - popular beer festivals held once a year - there really is nothing bad that can be said about this pub. All drinkers must give this place a visit once in their lives!
Alan - 7 Jul 2004 16:30 |
Beer Festival at The White Horse Friday 28th May - Monday 31st May. Over 130 real ales!
anonymous - 19 May 2004 21:44 |
A brilliant real ale pub. Local CAMRA branch pub of the year for the last 5 years running, I believe.
spudge - 25 Apr 2004 01:24 |
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