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The Strands Hotel, Nether Wasdale
Going from strength to strength!!
A really super spot. Try the welsh beer - daffodil - gorgeous.
14 Mar 2009 13:14
When I last visited, we tried all the beers between us - small amounts. Those brewed on site were OK- dull and uninteresting, but not bad. Three guest beers were dreadful - normally fantastic beers anywhere else, but frankly - off here! We left them and walked out. Got much nicer samples of the same beers somewhere else that day. Setting of pub nice but everything else not!
14 Mar 2009 13:12
Another visit - one of many - and a chance to update my reviews: wonderful beer - 6 choices, the only one I had ever seen before was their own - gorgeous Sands 3.4% - a very quaffable light mild; great atmosphere - lots of real ale enthusiasts, all talking to everyone else. No one gets left out. Many pilgrims.
30 Oct 2007 07:48
Re own beers not being available - did you ask why? I know that they had a brewing failure not long ago and did not have enough previously brewed stuff to last out. You perhaps visited during this period. Fortunately, they always have a range of good brews from other Cumbrian breweries!
30 Oct 2007 07:44
The Strands Hotel, Nether Wasdale
Mark is now brewing his won beer in his brewery in an old stable out the back. First brew pretty tasty! Well done, Mark.
12 Apr 2007 15:36
Wonderful place. Limited opening times - I always phone first. 20 mins walk from station but a lift can often be arranged!! A bar full of Beckstones beers on handpump, wit a Yates and usually another, all in beautiful condition! Combine with a visit to rince of Wales Foxfield, next station on line, for a day of pure heaven!
12 Apr 2007 15:25
Just to update - a year later, this pub has never failed to be superb in every way. The beer policy remains: always a Yates' beer, including every new one ever produced; always another Cumbrian - often Hawskhead; always one other well-chosen delight, and always Landlord! Food has gone from strength to strength - all local fresh produce, great prices. This pub was CAMRA 2006 Pub of the Year - Runner up, and won Copeland 'New Business of the Year' award 2006
10 Mar 2007 09:35
Their own Kirkstile Gold is gloriously quaffable!! They can hardly keep up with the demand for it!
16 Aug 2006 20:00
Real ale these days is generally undrinkable and served by people who don't care
16 Aug 2006 19:59
The Gosforth Hall Hotel, Gosforth
One of the oldest buildings in the area (1658) and with loads of original features. Owner will tell you more! He's keen on real ale and serves local micro's beers, in tiptop condition, under �2 per pint! Interesting food events.
8 Mar 2006 21:16
Now serving 15 different real ales, always in tiptop condition - there's no point in going anywhere else!
8 Mar 2006 21:03
Brewing their own beer now. Other beers(4-6) are chosen from Cumbrian micros. Food is homemade, local produce and freshly prepared - not even a gravy mix!! Nice friendly place, live music possible, especially if you provide it yourself, or ask the landlord! (folk/rock) Cheap accommodation at youth hostel nearby, or camping. Better quality accommodation in pub.
Go walk up Hardknott Pass and come down for food and drink here. Bliss!!
29 Jan 2006 21:37
Real Ales continue to be imaginatively chosen and well served. up to 6 with a real cider, now. More on at the Boot Summer and Winter Beer Festivals which get more and more popular each year, with many, many beers available at the three pubs at this end of the valley. This place is run by a family who care about it - and it shows!
29 Jan 2006 21:32
excellent pub - cosy but spacious. Relaxing. Serves good range of Jennings beers with tasty local food. Rich gravy - yum yum!! Biggest Liar in the world contest is held here each November.
29 Jan 2006 21:29
Small hotel in hamlet between Cleator Moor and Frizington. Not very busy but manages to keep one or two real ales in good condition. Free house so landlord gets what he fancies or what people request. Usually Cumbrian brews. Also does meals and accommodation at very reasonable prices.
29 Jan 2006 21:24
This pub is in what used to be the station itself and has some nice railway stuff inside. Food is good, and so is the beer - 3 real ales in winter and several guests in summer, when it gets pretty busy, but there is plenty of room inside and out. Over the railway line (footbridge) is the La'al Ratty - the local name for the narrow gauge, Ravenglass & Eskdale Steam railway, its museum, cafe, visitor shop, a kids playground and nearby is Muncaster Castle and a Roman ruin.
29 Jan 2006 21:20
The Punchbowl, Great Broughton
A really tiny, traditional Cumberland pub, run by delightful, friendly and welcoming people who know their customers but remember visitors. Beer is fabulously well-kept: Jennings Bitter and Albert's choice of guest beer - usually from Archers cos he likes their beers - and so does everyone else.
29 Jan 2006 21:14
Candlelit, real fire, four excellent real ales (TT's Landlord and three Cumbrian micros), really friendly bar staff, superb Sunday lunch, live music and quiz nights, and always buzzing! Only been open a year but easily one of the best pubs around!
29 Jan 2006 21:09
This is the most extraordinary place you could ever hope to go to! Stuart and Lynda who own it are wonderful, they brew their own beers; no two are ever alike, and the ones they get in are always ones you've never heard of or tasted before. Other brewers often visit here. Real Ale afficionadoes travel for miles to get here, usually by train, which stops outside the door. The conductor announce "Prince of Wales" and not "Foxfield"!! Plenty of pub beer festivals, the last one had 26 real ales on, one for each letter of the alphabet! A marquee in the garden provbides another bar with loads of pumps and barrels on gravity!
You simply MUST go here!! No one should miss it!
29 Jan 2006 21:03
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The Wasdale Head Inn, Wasdale Head
This pub is on the up after a difficult few years. Beers are good, the manager is from the valley and is trying hard. The toilets are a real problem for them. A shared refurb is the only solution but the other party will not pay.
1 Sep 2011 19:18