Vale of Glamorgan Inn, Cowbridgeback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
This is becoming one of my favourite of Britain's pubs. They keep an excellent selection of ales, and the staff, like the clientele, are most genial.
I was savouring a crystal-clear pint of Wye Valley's Hereford Pale Ale, when one of our number remarked that The Rugby was not being shown. So we left...
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The nicest of the 3 Cowbridge pubs we tried. The Vale of Glamorgan is more of a locals pub, with a single bar and a pleasant courtyard complete with small pond for outdoor drinking. The ale range was good - Hancocks HB, Wye Valley Butty Bach & HPA, Nelsons Powder Monkey, Sharps Doom Bar & Adnams Broadside. They also had a cider - Old Rosie. Good pub.
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This excellent little pub with several well kept real ales was a happy find. Hancock's HSB, Wye Valley, Adnam's etc., served by convivial staff, and no droning loudmouths among the genial clientele either.
It's a characterful old place, in keeping with the rest of the town.
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very good selection of ales,the pint of wye valley "country ale" was spot on,the barmaid friendly and cute and the beer garden lovely,8/10
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Really nice real ale boozer with friendly staff. Not only did they let me bring my young children in for a bite to eat but they also had a real cider. Ticks all the boxes for me!
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Spent the evening here during the Cowbridge food and drink festival. They had a mini beer festival, most barrels in a tent outside. Increadibly busy but wouldn't drink anywhere else in Cowbridge. Delicious Summer Lightening and ales from Bryncelyn. Very well organised and nothing ran out!
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The Vale has been be best pub in Cowbridge for years, and this shows no sign of changing any time soon. The pub is quite small, of the narrow and long variety. As a freehouse, the choice of beer makes a refreshing change from the usual monotony of the area, and the beer condition is invariably excellent - the house beer 'Hereford Pale Ale' is a particular highlight. The service is always friendly, as is the atmosphere.
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After my 6 mile circular walk from Cowbridge went a bit wrong (3 mile circular of Llanblethian), what to do to recover the day !!. Well , after a spot of contemplation in the psychic garden across the way, a pint in the VOG, that's what. And very nice too. Cosy little unpretentious boozer, quite charactersome without trying too hard:-a proper pub with , I think , 4 real ales on tap:-I opted for a well kept Tim Taylor Landlord. I recall Hereford HPA,Hancocks and one other being on tap. On my bank holiday Sunday visit they were adopting a novel concept of not serving any food. So I could have a quiet pint and a read of the paper without feeling I was the one out of place in a "gastro creche" (as any half decent pub seems to have become these days). Can't see it catching on!!. Will definitely return for a bit more of a session some time soon .
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Have visited twice and the ale was excellent both times. Rotating guests all the time. Friendly landlord and punters. Free shortbreads with strawberries and cream were going round due to Wimbledon final being on the silent television. Nice touch!!! Will return.
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