Maverick, Stourbridge - pub details
Address: Bretell Lane, Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 4BA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 37909) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Stourbridge Town (1.3 miles), Stourbridge Junction (1.9 miles), Lye (1.9 miles)
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> Current user rating: 6.3/10 (rated by 3 users)
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user reviews of Maverick, Stourbridge
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| This is a quirky pub, large building in a Wild West theme which is done well, right down to the authentic looking horse blankets thrown over the beams! Lots of interesting stuff on the walls, including a roulette wheel - will have to go again to have a good look. Very decent County & Western music playing - not a fan of C& W usually but this was good. There were a few wannabie cowboys with Black Country accents, as you'd expect. The beer was excellent, we had Jennings 'Cocker Hoop' & 'Cumberland Ale', Malvern Hills 'Cyneweard' and Dancing Duck's 'Ay Up'. A decent walk or quick bus ride from Stourbridge town, assuming you're not on a horse, but more than worth the effort of getting there. Roy22 - 28 Nov 2011 18:46 |
| A fascinating pub which seems to have adopted an American Wild West theme to it, apparently courtesy of the licensee. However, dismiss the Maverick as a fly-by-night manufatured pubco theme bar at your peril, for regardless of whether one appreciates the Cowboy and Country memorabilia or not, the pub is clean, spacious, comfortable, and most significantly, sports a range of 4 well-kept cask ales. An oddity, one might think, but somehow it works, as it is evocative of some US bars where one does now find a sometimes staggering range of local micro-brewed beers on tap. We were welcomed by a jolly and engaging barmaid who dispensed some super beer, and we all enjoyed regressing to our childhoods by failing to resist a spin of the wall-mounted roulette wheel behind us! Somehow, it just about managed to steer clear of tawdry, partly because of its out-of-town location (really this is Amblecote not Stourbridge). Anyone who knows me should be assured I wouldn't write a positive review of a corny Yankee theme pub - so don't be too quick to dismiss this place if you're in the area. There are a number of Good Beer Guide-listed boozers within walking distance which all have merits, and this forms a good starting point for such exploration. TWG - 27 Sep 2010 17:51 |