Berry, Walmerback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Great selection of beers and ciders at very reasonable prices - especially for the area. There were a couple of APAs on when we called in, which were both very nice and the Harvey's Old Ale was on top form. Lad behind the bar could do with a little bit of a refresher re customer service, but all-in-all a good pub.
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Its bit odd that snarling mallard alludes to the " barracks next door" ~ they closed in 1996 (eighteen years before he wrote the comment). Apart from the cryptic name, you'd struggle to find anything remotely military in, or around, the pub.
That's naughty ~ dismissing a pub with spurious accusations.
The Berry's beer is very impressive in both choice and quality.
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Regular winner of Camra's local pub of the year award and deservedly so too! The day I was there they had Gadd's 7, Loddens Ferrymans Gold, Hanlons Port, Ripple Steam Black, Darkstar Pale Ale, Pig & Porter Crab & Winkle, Harvey's Copperwheat and a couple of others I can't recall. On top of that there were 4 or 5 ciders on offer.
The Loddens a & the Darkstar were excellent!
As well as having a wide range of well kept beers the barstaff are friendly and knowledgable. You can always have a taster of an ale to check on the taste.
The furniture is comfortable and I can thoroughly recommend this pub for a real ale session. Because of it's popularity it can get quite busy!
For anyone who hasn't visited before it's set in a residential street and from the end of the road it's not apparent there is a pub there at all!
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The sign outside calls it The Green Berry. It is a bit 'Forces' orientated (there is a barracks next door). Beer was okay - pub fairly standard.
anonymous - 5 Aug 2014 22:10 |
Great pub, warm welcome and good range of beer and cider. do not go expecting filter coffee and three course meal! CAMRA awarded and deservedly so
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Really enjoyed a pre-dinner pint in the Berry just before Christmas. It was my first time drinking in Walmer / Deal, but I'd heard about how this place was helping to launch a new local brewery, Time & Tide, so gave it - and the said brewery's Spratwaffler - a go. All very nice, with a pretty impressive range of beers and ciders for such a small pub, and the Spratwaffler was splendid. Will be returning.
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Since my original review in July 2009, I try to visit this pub as often as possible when in the Deal/Walmer area. I have seen the pub grow to its present offering of 10 real ales and 5 ciders collecting numerous very well deserved Camra awards along the way. I was saddened to read the last report as I believe I may well have been there on the same day and possibly at the same time. I too was advised the beer from what I think was the medieval brewery was a little hazy but, I actually tried it. It tasted absolutely fine, it was in very good condition and temperature perfect. Many other people were drinking it too. I also tried a number of the ales on offer, none were murky a very slight haze maybe on one but again condition excellent, the beer fresh and all at obviously a cellar controlled temperature. This pub excels in trying the unusual, the hard to get hold of, and very new brewery offerings. To criticise the pub is, I feel, very unfair as they obviously take great pride in looking after their beer and if there were any perceived shortcomings, this is really down to the brewery concerned many of which are often very small fledgling operations
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We expected much from this place considering it's selection by CAMRA as their regional pub of the year. There was a plenty of trad' beer (10) and farm cider (4 or5) choice. We were told our first choice (of beer) was cloudy so we declined that one but were astonished when our next two were also murky. We persevered and found some clear ones. Any pub can have the odd cloudy beer but for a top notch CAMRA pub to have 3 in one lunchtime isn't good enough. The atmosphere is very busy and convivial. We sat at the only table available and found out why, it was right opposite the toilet door and the smell of disinfectant was overpowering.
The pub is 20 minutes walk of Deal station and 45 minutes of Walmer station.
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Despite its dreary exterior (don't be put off) this delightful pub does what a good pub does ~ and does it very well. Good beer, friendly, interesting people and good value. It's an oasis and worthy of the praise it receives.
Notably it's eclectic, every changing beer range is described well on discreet blackboards on the wall and tasters are available. They keep the beer in first class order. It's clearly a place with a clear vision of what they do.
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Small freehouse near where the Royal Marines barracks used to be. A large range of ales and quiet busy for an early Saturday evening. I'm not sure that the beer was that good a condition, but this may just be me.
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Errantly I'd omitted to recollect the name of this pub when I passed through here in 2010, which was a shame if only because I couldn't do it justice via a glowing BITE review - often the most appropriate way of paying due homage to a pub that has impressed. Upon a 2nd appearance last week, I can say I remained as awestruck by what this little sidestreet local is doing now as I was 2 years ago.
The landlord must be immensely committed, and it just goes to show what can be achieved with that sort of passion, plus - I presume without any prior knowledge - a freehold or at least free-of-tie arrangement which allows pretty free reign on what beer can be offered at the bar. I think 8 were featured, many from Kent and the south though not exclusively. Too numerous to list here and in any case they're ever-changing; observation suggested a fair number of locals were quaffing the fizz, but plainly enough real stuff is shifted here to justify the turnover. Redemption Porter was just one of the beers tried and it was truly splendid. Hop Fuzz was also on form. The man's got this on the money, because he also stocks Harvey's Best, which whilst is slightly off its local patch, is generic enough to appeal to the less-adventurous drinker who just wants a solid traditional best bitter to quaff every visit.
There is a slightly dated - early '80s - front-room feel to the Berry (should that be the "Beery"?!) which somehow doesn't jar as it exudes that kind of working man's club ethos; the pub does authentically feel like more of a social club for the community than anything, with a sports room at the rear, and it caters for a wide spectrum of folk, not soelely the beer enthusiast. One could so easily be snobbish about its humble approach but a visit will see to it that that would be churlish - the welcome from the landlord, the quality and range of his ales, and the jollity and conviviality I encountered when at the bar, all serve to bring one back to what should be valued most in a local: good beer and good cheer.
I hope to be back, whenever I next pass through Walmer.
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Top real ale pub. Family owned and run, with good extra staff. Amazing range of real ales - God knows how they afford to offer so many - plus wide range of ciders, if you like that kind of thing. Inexpensive compared with most real ales pubs (�2.90/pint in 2011 which isn't much for Kent) and run by a family that clearly have a passion for decent beer. Probably my favourite pub ever.
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Cracking pub with good ale choice and good staff.
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THE real ale pub for Deal Walmer area. Camra branch pub of the year 2008 and 2009. Contstantly changing beers and ciders ( Harveys always available) Basically an ongoing Beer Festival. Brilliant !!
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