Another very smart pub, with friendly staff, posh pizza menu and ok half of Lytham.
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Visited yesterday. All handpumps in use with a few beers from nearby Lytham Berewery. Having said that the beers tried all tasted the same (Apple skin was the general consensus) but had different appearances!
There are better pubs on the Fylde coast but alot more worse pubs
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Large imposing pub.
Has a few handpumps but not all in use. Ales come from far and wide. Like the Ship & Royal,never had a bad pint here but never had a good one here either.
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Enjoyed a couple of well kept Lytham Ales here, and Shardlow Whistle Blower. Large lounge split into smaller drinking areas.
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A large, busy pub with a few well kept cask ales. They seem keen on real ales and even have a blackboard behind the bar asking for suggestions!
They also serve food although I didn't eat there.
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I believe this pub lost the chap who looked after the ales really well and since then the beers have gone down the pan. Now hardly worth the 2009 GBG entry it gained when he was still around. Last time I visited it seemed to be back in the bad times : utterly dead; there was only member of staff who was more interested in his chavvy mates at the quiz machine than actually working.
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After a brief visit to Lytham Beer Festival where the beer ran out early, we had a quick pint in The Taps, which was packed, and then ended up in here looking for food. The waitress, "Miss Memory Girl", took our order, then she took eight orders from the table next door without writing anything down. Surprisingly, we received exactly what we asked for and very good it was too. Three unusual real ales were available, all in good order. Then it was time to cross the road and catch the No7 bus back to the Blackpool menagerie.
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I visited the County last Friday since The Taps was a total scrum (St. Paddy's Night). I was again pleasantly surprised - four real ales on tap : Brains SA, Deuchars IPA, Theakstons OP and the Hyde Brewery's version of Boddies. All were in good form. The place was pretty busy, maybe because of the spillover from The Taps but at least I could sample some decent beer and have a good chat with the lads without getting barged around.
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This pub has been through some dismal times recently. For many years it used to be THE pub in Lytham when The Taps was the Captain's Cabin and The Hastings Club was Lytham Cons. Delicious Boddies fresh from the Strangeways brewery used to be served to the massed throngs. Then Whitbread swallowed Boddies, the pub got "Done out" and the rest is history. Normally you'll find this place three-quarters empty, even on a Friday night, since The Taps rightfully took all its clientele away. But maybe they've started trying a bit harder here very recently. On my last visit, the County had two guest ales on tap. For an area that loves its real ales, maybe somebody at the County has finally acquired a scrap of business acumen!
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Probably the biggest pub in town. No great shakes, but I only seem to end up there once every few years so whadda I know. It ain't the taps, and so far as I know that's the only pub with any real character left in Lytham.
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