Beer expert's top 10 pubs in the UK for autumn drinks

Autumn Pubs

(Image: The champion pubs for a portion this autumn)

10: Duke of York, Iddesleigh, Devon

The Duke of York successful the small, edge-of-Dartmoor colony of Iddesleigh has a unsocial spot successful caller history, reveals Adrian.

“Come successful from the chill of an autumn’s time and lukewarm yourself successful beforehand of a log occurrence successful the heavy aged fireplace astatine this edge-of-Dartmoor colony inn, wherever Michael Morpugo heard the stories that would animate War Horse,” helium says.

Now a novel, blockbuster signifier amusement and graphic novels, the communicative Sir Michael heard that inspired War Horse must’ve been good worthy the terms of a mates of pints that day.

“The nutrient was hearty, arsenic was the beer, and you sat, arsenic I did, imagining yourself immune from the miserable upwind outside, portion that feeling of being extracurricular clip and abstraction erstwhile ensconced successful a pub erstwhile much returned,” writes Adrian.

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9: Beacon Hotel, Sedgley, West Midlands

Despite its sanction the Beacon Hotel does not connection accommodation. What it does springiness to passing pilgrims is simply a brew brewed successful the redbrick Sarah Hughes Brewery astatine the back, its Ruby Mild.

Writes Adrian: “It has ever been a gorgeously soothing brew with each mode of acheronian fruits connected the palate, on with coffee, toffee and cocoa and blessed with a adust bittersweet finish. It was archetypal brewed successful 1987, erstwhile the Beacon’s landlord, John Hughes, seemingly chanced upon an aged look for a beardown mild that his grandmother, who had bought the brewery and pub successful the 1920s, made. She died successful the aboriginal 1950s and the brewery closed a fewer years later, portion the look was seemingly rediscovered successful a drawer 30 years on.”

Today the Beacon has 1 of the champion preserved pub interiors successful the state – cleanable for a pint oregon 2 of Ruby Mild.

(Image: Adrian Tierney-Jones)

8: The Bear, Oxford

This metropolis centre pub successful the assemblage metropolis of ‘Dreaming Spires’ is famed for its postulation of necktie clippings, displayed successful solid cases connected the wall. Not conscionable aged ties either, explains Adrian.

“The owners of these ties were members of famed colleges, schools (my son’s aged schoolhouse was there), regiments (my father’s probably), sports clubs and long-gone agencies and organisations specified arsenic the Hong Kong Police Force,” helium writes successful his caller book.

“Donations started successful the 1950s, but owed to the deficiency of abstraction the signifier had been stopped, which indispensable person disappointed those would-be tie-donors who knew that their generous enactment would person got them a portion connected the house.”

(Image: The Bear, Oxford)

 7: Haunch of Venison, Salisbury, Wiltshire

The oldest surviving pub successful Salisbury, its sanction conjures up “images of Merrie England,” writes Adrian, “bringing to caput Henry VIII throwing chickenhearted drumsticks implicit his shoulder, and foaming pints of ale”.

It’s besides said to beryllium the astir haunted spot successful the city, with each mode of unusual appearances and unexplained happenings.

“For instance, the shade of an aged pistillate successful ‘old-fashioned’ apparel was said to person been seen by an American tourist,” helium adds. But “nothing going connected successful the extracurricular satellite seemed to shingle the mellowness and bid of caput that I felt successful this harmless and unafraid satellite of the pub”.

(Image: Haunch of Venison, Salisbury, Wiltshire)

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