The Swan, Maidstone - pub details
Address: 2 County Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1UY [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 31888)
Maidstone East (0.2 miles), Maidstone Barracks (0.5 miles), Maidstone West (0.7 miles)
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> Current user rating: 6.4/10 (rated by 7 users)
> Local guide: Kent pub guide
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Eagle, Maidstone (0.1 miles), Duke Of Marlborough, Maidstone (0.1 miles), Style & Winch, Maidstone (0.1 miles), Society Rooms, Maidstone (0.1 miles), Royal George, Maidstone (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Swan, Maidstone
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| Very small Sheps pub, excellent Masterbrew along with two guest ales, the best cheese & onion sandwich in ultra-fresh wholemeal bread I've ever eaten. As the Society Rooms didn't have a single drop of real ale in the house (on at Tuesday lunchtime?) this pub was a breath of fresh air. Paul_Rochdale - 9 Dec 2009 14:37 |
| The problem with SHepherd Neame pubs is that hey are tied to the output of the Shepherd Neame brewery. Which wouldn't be a problem if the pubs realised that Sheps do more ales than Masterbrew and Spitfire. If you can find a Sheps pub that's realised this, then you're onto a good thing. The Swan is one such pub. Four ales on, all good. Friendly barman who knows how to look after the beer. I'll knock them up to 7/10 for the ale selection. Mind you, what's the telly all about? There's a huge wide screen telly, and the barman boasted of it being a plus that they don't have Sky Sports.... MankyBadger - 21 Nov 2009 07:37 |
| A nice little pub that is ruined by a god awful wide screen t.v slap bang in the main bar why??? Talk about a conversation killer while i was there they had some sport playing then some truly awful music channel playing dance music, and of course all were transfixed by this and lets face you cant help but be drawn to the screen no matter how hard you try to fight it! As for the beer I wanted to try the new beer produced in the new Shepherd Neame micro brewery but the pump clip was turned round, i was later informed by the barmen that it had not come up right so decided to take it off, to this i was very pleased to hear, well done!! I opted for a pint of Masterbrew very nice if a little lacking in condition I later discovered that they serve all their ales through a sparkler! why??? All this does is give the Ale a massive head but in doing so destroys the flavour in the process, all the aroma and taste is pushed into the head. I know without this my pint would have been in tip top form! All in all a nice little pub slightly ruined by a couple of niggles i.e the TV and the sparkler on the pumps. alehead1 - 29 Sep 2009 17:29 |
| Miserable clientale blooter - 5 May 2009 20:54 |
| Very welcoming barman, and although a locals pub, they seem quite sympathetic to those who are visiting the prison over the road. A Shepherd Neame pub with guest ales – you don’t see that very often. But to counteract that, they’d gone to the trouble of putting out a billboard advertising a mouth-watering spread when the kitchen was closed for refurbishment. What was that all about? I’ll give them 6/10 - average MankyBadger - 28 Feb 2009 19:26 |
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