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A characterful pub with a fine, traditional interior. Only one real ale on my (Wednesday afternoon) visit. It was in excellent condition, but lack of choice was disappointing. The range of ales is much reduced from when I was last here c. 10 years ago. 7/10.
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Sterile, featureless, overpriced and worst of all boring. If this is the future for pubs count me out, more atmosphere on the moon - what a shame.
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My first visit to the A since the new tenant took over the lease.
Positives. There is now a decent quality free wifi. Guinness remains the same quality at the same price. A lot of the real ale has disappeared to be replaced by so called craft beers, which means some of the irritating beer tickers now go down the road. Toilets remain unhygienic which will keep on deterring the sorts of blokes who user moisturiser and hair gel.
Negatives. No bags of scratchings available. No pork pies. No lottery. Jukebox has disappeared to be replaced by APP run by the landlord, so the diverse music chosen and paid for by customers replaced by safe anodyne soft rock. No football on TV, which probably explains why it was unusually quiet before and after the Blues game (usually heaving on match day Saturdays). Bar seems to be full of grumpy old regulars grumbling about the changes that have happened and rumoured forthcoming changes, such as turning it into a wine bar, getting rid of Guinness and replacing the pool table with dining tables.
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About to undergo a change of management....watch this space.
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A revisit since the first time 5 years ago. Very pleased to see it has not changed and it was certainly thriving on my Friday night visit. If you like heritage pub interiors or just charactersome pubs or a variety of real ales then this is a must visit venue.
Along with the White Swan , this is a rare inner city survivor heritage pub.
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Last of four pubs in the Digbeth Area for me.
Very much the sister pub of the Old Swan - same red brick, similar lay out.
Lots more real ale on - to the point of confusion, as some pumps had two clips on!
Decent enough boozer and would come back.
Some photos of my Digbeth crawl at http://bit.ly/1NuhI8Y
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Not been in here for about a year and nothing has changed, a good selection of beers, 15 i counted, great juke box, but it was low on footfall. I ordered a pint of Banks Mild which was undrinkable, another beer was offered without question. I had a Gloucester Brewery Citra £3.20 and very nice it was too.
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There were lots of comments on here about The Anchor but they all disappeared when the pub was mysteriously reported as closed. It's a very traditional & original Victorian corner pub in a scruffy area behind the coach station. There are lots of interesting decorative features including a rare snob screen.
It is renowned for its real ale and has won many CAMRA awards (though none all that recently). The ales are generally from micro breweries and are constantly changing. There is a chalkboard showing the current beers; the ones with a price next to them are the ones that are available at that time.
There is a pool table and jukebox, though the volume is often too low as the landlord doesn't want to wake his young kids who live upstairs. They seem to be doing an ever-increasing number of live music and comedy nights which means the pool table is taken out of action on those nights.
The Anchor's clientele are a mixed bunch. The regulars are friendly and the bar staff aren't too bad!
I give it a 9, possibly the best pub in Brum.
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And now they`re selling 10.1% beer...get the waterproofs on!
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And they`re having the toilets refurbed..Hoorah! Now if some of the punters could face the right way when they`re having a piddle...I blame the 6%+ stuff they sell myself.
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Whoever put that pathetic comment on the website about this place being shut should crawl back to whence they came. Yup it`s still open, still playing Deep Purple on the jukebox, Has a nice new big TV showing cooking/gardening programmes, plenty of quality real ales (some for under £3!) Thatchers Gold e.t.c , nice unthreatening atmosphere...Top boozer!
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This pub is not closed, I don't know who supplied that information.
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