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Excellent and busy bar. The cask beers tonight were Surrey Hills Collusion, Arbor I Speak for the Trees, Oakham Citra, Siren Yu Lu, Siren Suspended in Ekuanot, Kissingate Moon and Northern Monk Eternal. I tries five of them and the quality was excellent. The place was heaving at 6:30pm with a mixture of ages, bur service was prompt. On keg were two De Molen beers (one, Bean and Gone was a collaboration between the pub, Surrey Hills and De Molen, and was a 10.3% stout, very tasty). Also on keg were Weird Beard Five O'clock Shadow, Thornbridge Jaipur, one from Northern Monk (Patron series 17:01), and Amundsen Rasp and Lime Berliner Weisse. In the fridge were several interesting cans and bottles. It is basic, but if you love beer, then it is a must visit place.
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I'm not qualified to comment upon the psychological issues which compel someone to slag a place off in eight separate missives - sorry - reviews, but I can say from personal experience that this is a pleasant place to visit for a swift one or two. It's not a pub in the normal sense (too small, no food etc.) and it's not really an offy (though they do sell loads of bottles) but if you want to try a pint of something your local won't have, this is the place. Mind you if the customer count approaches a dozen or so they'll all need to be very skinny or very friendly.
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We visited soon after 5 p.m., an hour before closing on a Sunday, perched in the tiny back room and immediately fell into stimulating conversation with affable and interesting folk. Happy Daze cider was suitably quenching after a nine-mile hike, and served at the correct cool temperature. Staff are helpful and cheerful. This is a convivial gem of a place: highly recommended.
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72 pints for £136 quid is pretty cheap.
It would last me a couple of nights at least.
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This highly discerning Off licence has raised the bar once again and now offers Doom Bar firkins at £136 each.This is highly dangerous the rush of beer drinkers flocking there must be overwhelming * double cough*. Perhaps this explains why the place is empty whenever I pass by.6/10 as a rating is very odd,friends and relations no doubt.
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A great place to visit, meet friends and drink some fantastic beer. I don't know what Slerpy is on about - it gets heaving most evenings with a variety of customers, certainly not too many aged Camra types. About six cask beers, six keykeg including De Molen, and a couple of hundred bottles and cans. The staff are great as well. I can only assume that Slerpy is an onanist, with no friends.
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Fine establishment with an enjoyable and different atmosphere. The boutique concept is already getting very popular, with craft beer fans - and others.
A fine addition to West Street and Dorking - with most pleasant and knowledgable staff, who know what they're selling.
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This "alternative venue" is an off licence, only a Martian would think that an off licence is anything different! it does a range of bottled beers and one or two on stillage. it is not exactly first date material! Only worthwhile for elderly CAMRA types who want to boast that they had a warm bottle of Crudginton's old hot water bottle at 24.3% that costs two mortgages.So therefore It is invariably empty like the returned bottles.1/10.
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Great and alternative venue. Like Four Hops in Reigate.
Both on West Street(s).
Craft ale, at its best.....
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The Know-it-all attitude turns customers away,Dorking is very poor for choice and as i don't drink at home this tiny excuse for an off licence doesn't improve matters.
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A beer shop that doubles as a small "pub". Excellent range of bottled beers. Superb, ever-changing draught and keg beers (and the odd cider). I've never used it as a pub, i.e. drinking on the premises, and I'm not sure I want to. It's not all that atmospheric or comfortable and, unfortunately, the owner really winds me up (I like all the rest of the staff!)
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A tiny pub at the back of an off licence specialising in bottled beers. All beer is served direct from the barrels. There were 2 on the bar and the rest were in the cellar. Staff are very friendly and knowledgeable on real ale. There is a small room at the bar where you can sit down and an even smaller patio. t is low on comfort and amenities but good for beer drinking.
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Excellent drinking establishment in a well-pubbed area of Dorking.
The staff are entertaining with a Laurel & Hardy double act performing when I was there. The Oliver Hardy lookalike (the owner) presided over proceedings creating yet another fine mess for Stan Laurel, resplendent with hipster beard, to sort out. I understand that this is the standard way of working here. Brilliant. They both really know their beer though.
Talking of which, the beer is fantastic, with cask, keg, bottles and cans from all over the world on offer. The micropub feels like it has been around for centuries but is only a couple of years old. As a rating, It has to be the perfect 10 out of 10.
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Phrenology waste of time.
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Bump - why compliment old Slerpy?
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Excellent beer all in top condition. Slerpy is a no-nothing gobshyte.
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I've never seen anything like seven real ales on in Cobbetts,you are clearly an idiot who counts the Key Keg shite as Real Ale,the truth is in the word keg.The place is a tiny little shop without any trade to speak of so how the ---- can the beer be any good there simply isn't the TURNOVER,if they did have seven barrels conditioning naturally the beer would be vinegary for lack of sales, Tony34081 -village idiot of Dorking .
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Popped in today to get some lovely bottles.
There were only seven fantastic beers on draught at the time. Clearly this is not enough for a connoisseur such as Slerpy.
I am sure if he looks hard enough he will find a pub in Dorking he likes. I mean somebody must sell Heineken.
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Popped in here once - good atmosphere and good beer although certainly not a traditional pub.
One great thing about it is that Slerpy won't be here. He will be at home with a box of tissues reading the Wetherspoons house magazine.
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This a modern concept - new and inivative. Won't appeal to older posters, like sleepy - who insisted that trams be reintroduced to his lovely Croydon!
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A beer bottle shop with space for a dozen people of ordinary build, it is not particularly good and cannot be graded as a pub. The overall score on BITE at the moment is 5.7 that clearly indicates how ordinary it is. Move on nothing to see or bother with.
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What a lovely place. Getting to try new beers what a wide variety.
Some are very different.
Never been in when no real ale on. Why at the beginning of the week put all the casks on. Keep something for the weekend.
Tim is very welcoming and the team know all about what they sell.
Sleepy you seem to like brown bitters and supermarkets. Why not carry on using these and leave the decent pubs all be it micro to the real drinkers.
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Disaffected staff give all kinds of sorry stories as to why they have no real ale on or only one on offer, I would make a guess that this place isn't open in a years time.The Waitrose just behind are doing similar bottles at a third of the price.The rating is 5.4 very low but flattering for a place so badly managed.2/10.
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The front of the offy is full of silly priced bottles,the counter area has a couple of firkins,you can buy a pint to drink on the premises but it is actually a kitchen with cups etc. the residue of last nights washing -up,who would want to drink in such an enviroment???? The local Council need to take another look I know planning laws have relaxed but hygiene should count for something. 2/10
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Cosy it isn't. Just a place where you can stand, or sit on high stools, and sample an amazing range of beers - mostly strong ones! Definitely a place for the serious beer-lover.
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A terrific addition to the local pub scene - at least for those not inclined to trawl around town in large groups but who enjoy sampling a variety of cask, keg and bottled ales.
I'm amazed the 'micro-pub' scene has taken this long to land in Surrey, given its prominence only next door in Kent, and increasingly now in Sussex too. It was only on the off-chance of a customer asking the proprietors of Cobbett's when they were making the back room into a pub that they decided to follow that path - still; better late than never! The scheme seems to be working well and on my attendances thus far is popular with different ages and characters - so don't go assuming it's all lonely beardy-weirdy CamRA-only punters in here! Yes folks; I've even seen young people in here...
Besides trying the beers on offer, ensure you visit the lavatory out the back - sounds unsalubrious but it's bedecked with hundreds of pump clips and is quite an impressive sight to reflect upon while one is making room for more....
Keep up the good work guys; about time Dorking had a pub worth writing about (in a positive way).
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Excellent micropub and real ale off licence. The pub only has room for around a dozen people (the small garden takes another 10) so not the place for a large group of people. A choice of between 3 and 6 cask beers, 2 ciders and 2 beers from a keykeg, plus about 100 bottled beers. Beers tend to be light and hoppy (breweries like Weird Beard, Magic Rock and Kernel are favourites). They also sell their collaborative beer made with Surrey Hills, Collusion, which is also full of hops.
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