Boat Inn, Ashleworthback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Fantastic pub. It is approached down a narrow line past a tithe barn. It appears though you're heading into a farmyard. But right at the end, as far as you can go before driving into the River Severn, is this delightful rural pub. It's very olde worlde inside with a main bar area where a few locals were congregated and a couple of other rooms. Outdoors are several covered areas that resemble an antiques yard. Whilst there are only 3 real ales served, there were a total of 14 real ciders. The ales were Battledown Pale Ale, Clavell & Hind Rook Wood & Lakehouse Cherry Chocolate Porter. Ciders were Fisher's Dry, Mango, Strawberry & Lime, Pomegranate & Orange & Perry, Cotswold Cider Company Hornblower & Muscle Mary, Millwhites Strawberry Cider, Gwynt y Ddraig Fiery Fox, Hartland's Traditional Farmhouse, Out of the Orchard Medium Cider & Perry & Severn Cider Medium & Special. I could have quite happily stayed all day in this pub and got thoroughly sozzled. But there were other new places to try. This will be only the 7th pub I have scored a maximum 10/10, as I struggled to fault it. Well worth seeking out.
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Lovely pub
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Review below said it all really, cracking location to while away a few hours with excellent conditioned beers & ciders. On the downside small car park - so get there early, no problems. :-)
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Located on the bank of the Severn, a pub how they used to be. Low beams, a number of small rooms, pub games, local characters. There are usually four inexpensively-priced real ales served from the barrel, with a tendency I think towards maltier beers � one of the few pubs in Gloucestershire where you might find a mild. Also cider and perry. Don�t go for food unless you just want a bread roll. Closed Mondays.
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Visited twice in April and May before this summer floods. Four smaller brewery beers all in great condition and about five ciders / perrys. Excellent rolls at lunchtime and a pleasant lawn overlooking The Severn. I'm pleased and surprised it wasn't washed away to the estuary. One of the very best.
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The Boat has re-opened! After being closed due to flooding from July to November the pub has been re-decorated and opened last weekend with a fine selection of real ales, as usual.
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This is a great characterful pub in a fantastic tranquil setting. It has a nice unspoilt interior.
Ale is served from the cask, a good selection from independents.
Unfortunately the reception from the people who were running the pub left something to be desired. After being ignored for a while I managed to purchase two pints of ale. We also enquired about camping (as they had a camping symbol in the good beer guide) and were met with a very hostile "no we don't do camping". The guide suggests it refers to camping within a mile so I persevered with the conversation for a while until it was finished with an aprupt "no". So we retired to the room on the right as you walk in, sat at a table and I chose one of the beer guides on the bookshelf to look through. In came the lady from behind the bar "can you put that book back please, this is a private room , you'll have to go in there" pointing to the other front room adjoining the tap room and promptly shutting the door.So we sat down in the other room. My wife and I felt like naughty schoolboys. Later a boat party turned up, who had rung ahead. The lady was complaining at them "well you didnt say there would be this many people". So it wasn't just us! In all my 15 years of travelling around pubs of all kinds up and down the country sampling real ale I can definately say that this pub had the most unfriendly pub. Perhaps they were having a bad day.. but these people are downright rude.
To add to the stale atmosphere was the warm beer- I don't like cold beer, 11 or 12 oC will do but it was actually WARM, probably 16 o C.
This review is backdated, I'm guessing it was summer 2002 or 2003 when we visited. I regret as a Camra member not writing back then, it still preys on my mind, hence this little review.
Thanks for the experience.
brisk - 15 Aug 2007 17:39 |
I can't believe that nobody has recommended this splendid little pub before. Standing on the banks of the Severn, and reached by passing a group of medieval buildings (a tithe barn, church and manor house) it makes a wonderful setting for a summer drink. It is probably even more splendid in the winter though, when the river is high and dramatically fleet, as it was yesterday. It is very 'local', but is also frequented by cyclists who use it as a final and welcome destination after a long ride from Cheltenham or Gloucester.
It serves a variety of guest beers which always vary and it has a small beer festival in the summer.
There's no food except well-filled rolls at lunchtime. The bar is very small and can get crowded when the weather is bad, but in the summer most people sit outside and watch the boats go by. Idyllic.
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