The Beehive, Swindon - pub details
Address: 55 Prospect Hill, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 3JS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 01793 523187
Swindon (0.8 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Live music
- Real ale
Pub suggested by Andy Marcer on 6 Dec 2004
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> Current user rating: 8.1/10 (rated by 12 users)
> Local guides: Swindon pub guide, Wiltshire pub guide
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user reviews of the Beehive, Swindon
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| I went back to the Beehive last Sunday, because there was a band I particularly wanted to see. I tried the Osset Beijing and it was absolutely superb and really well kept. I ended up having a few of them. What a contrast from my last few visits. Excellent beer and great music. And a really good atmosphere. I would therefore like to withdraw my earlier comments about the Beehive's beer. It is once again, a pub I could highly recommend. I'm still a bit miffed, that Andy Marcer didn't reply to the e-mail I sent him a week before posting on BITE. I've always believed, if I don't like something about a pub, I should tell the landlord/landlady. Even negative customer feedback, can be valuable. If they don't want to know, then and only then, complain about it on BITE. Fassla - 19 Aug 2008 19:23 |
| I have used the Beehive, on and off for a number of years. On the positive side, the atmosphere is generally very laid back, with as far as I know, little or no trouble. They also have decent free live music on, usually about 3 or 4 times a week which is why I don't have a problem with their high beer prices. Presumably this covers the cost of the artists. However, I noticed during my last few visits, that the quality of their beer has gone rapidly down hill. The problem is not their brands of beer but how they keep them. Also, if they cleaned their lines once in a while, that might help. As a beer drinker, I don't mind paying a bit extra for free entertainment but I do object to paying higher prices for something that is practically undrinkable. Last Sunday I went to see Out of the Blue. My first pint was a bit on the cloudy side and tasted slightly stale,so I saw that off and decided to try something else. The next pint was even worse. The barmaid cheerfully acknowledged it was a bit cloudy but assured me there was nothing wrong with it, it was just the way it came out of the tap. I accepted it, as so far as I knew, there was nothing better to replace it with. I drank that one, at these prices I wasn't about to waste it, then went home. I felt very ill for the rest of the evening and was sick a few times, the first time in living memory that only two pints has done that to me. There is another good band on this afternoon, which I would have liked to see but I am certainly not in a hurry to go back there. Not until someone can convince me that teir beer has improved at least. I e-mailed the Beehive on their web-site last Sunday, but so far have received no reply. Hopefully, now that they know their beer is not only crap but making people ill, they might do something to improve it Fassla - 13 Jul 2008 14:15 |
| gOOd old fashioned pub - very much a locals' alehouse but they make visitors very welcome RichT - 24 Apr 2008 15:59 |
| A real national treasure, proper old school pub, firm committment to live music, friendly clientelle, i used to drink in here as an 18 year old back in the early 90s before moving to Oxford, returned back to Swindon a few years back and was delighted to see it was still there, one of my favourite pubs in Swindon if not the UK MarkEMoon - 20 Apr 2008 14:55 |
| Between the already high prices and now the smoking ban this place seems to have had it's day, which is a shame because it holds a fond place in a lot of local hearts. And I'm pretty sure there are more to follow. anonymous - 9 Aug 2007 12:11 |
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