Fountain Inn, Birminghamback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Proper old skool boozer like so many in digbeth. No real ales so if this is what you're looking for you may want to give it a wide berth. Think I had a John Smith but there was bank's in the bottle available.
Juke box and pool table. Mixed set of drinkers. Not a big place with 2 rooms but a large screen for the football.
Could have possibly had a better score if the bloke behind the bar didn't moan, and moan and moan about me wanting the juke box on
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Following a recommended pub crawl in Doghouse magazine, I stumbled on this place.
Old world but with a very mixed group of drinkers - who all knew each other.
Bit surprised that the closest to real ale was a John Smiths - not in the mood for Guinness, I went for Stella. With a packet of Scampi Fries - £3.10 for the lot.
And experience that you cannot think will be around for ever.
Some photos of my day in Digbeth at - http://bit.ly/1NuhI8Y
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Cracking little Irish pub, no frills, basic and honest. Cracking hot pies sold from the bar, and a good pint of Guinness.
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Have to echo the views below - great little pub, probably unchanged for years. No real ale but decent Guinness!
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Excellent review below. been in here once or twice and never found it unpleasant, bit quiet, retains that Irish quarter atmosphere and maybe that specific customer base. Trouble is Digbeth has changed a lot over the last couple of years, especially with all the reevelopment and not so sure that catering for such a narrow clientele is the way forward, nice pub however -excellent Guiness of course!
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I struggle to see how the Fountain stays open in the well-pubbed but sadly de-industrialising area that is now Digbeth, particularly now that most of the Birmingham Irish have moved further out to the city's southern suburbs and venture in mainly for Sunday and St Patrick's day drinking. However, it seems to survive on this trade, and that of the nearby factories and car repair shops that do survive, despite not offering any real ale at all and I am glad that it does, as it is a fine traditional street-corner local, even if the locals who use it now do so less than before.
Of note is the fact that WM Constabulary's vice division raided this pub recently looking for hardcore gay porn and looking surprised to find only a group of Irish men drinking Guinness - the other Fountain nearby was their intended target. Oops.
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Brian and Pat run a great little pub.Always a friendly welcome with a good selection of beers.Guinness is superb ! How a proper pub should be.
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