点评:Excellent real ale pub in the back streets of Rugby and, due to the recent demise of the Wheeltapper, is now the nearest pub to Rugby Train Station. It is an interesting layout with two room sections either side of the main serving area and a separate room off one of these down a couple of steps. There is a small, enclosed courtyard area with plastic tables and chairs, accessed through a corridor festooned with framed signed international and club rugby shirts. In fact, there’s very much a rugby (the funny shaped ball game, not the place) theme throughout the pub, as the current guvnor’ is an avid Leicester Tigers fan and arranges coach trips from the pub to the Tigers home game, and there is an interesting collection of signed shirts throughout. If I could pick a fault, it would be that I could not find a signed Saracens RFC shirt on display, but I guess that is as a result of the continued animosity of the original Midland RU sides to the upstarts from North London.
However, that can easily be forgiven for the range of well-kept ales and ciders available. There are several pumps spread out on all three sections of the bar and the available beers and ciders are displayed on a chalk board in the back bar. For our visit there were eight ales and four ciders on the go on the pumps. For the ales, alongside Everard’s tiger, which is a permanent ale due to the tie up with the Leicester brewery, there was Byatts Platinum Blonde and Colonel Cocoa Dark Ale, Broadtown Line of Sight IPA and Black Llama Baltic Porter and Castle Rock Time Traveller, along with two other Everard’s brews in the form of Signal Session Pale Ale and Old Original Ruby Ale. All the ones we tried were in excellent condition.
A great way to start or end (or in our case both) any crawl of Rugby’s best real ale pubs.
翻译:位于拉格比后街的优质纯麦啤酒酒吧,由于 Wheeltapper 最近停业,现在是距离拉格比火车站最近的酒吧。这是一个有趣的布局,主服务区两侧各有两个房间部分,其中一个房间下方有一个单独的房间,距离其中一个房间只有几步之遥。有一个封闭的小庭院,配有塑料桌椅,可通过一条走廊进入,走廊上挂着带框签名的国际和俱乐部橄榄球衬衫。事实上,整个酒吧都有橄榄球(一种滑稽形状的球类运动,而不是场地)主题,因为现任酒吧老板是莱斯特老虎队的狂热球迷,并安排从酒吧到老虎队主场比赛的巴士旅行,而且那里是一个有趣的签名衬衫系列。如果我可以挑错的话,那就是我找不到一件有签名的撒拉逊人 RFC 球衣,但我猜这是由于米德兰 RU 的原队对来自北伦敦的暴发户持续敌意的结果。
然而,对于一系列保存完好的啤酒和苹果酒来说,这一点很容易被原谅。酒吧的三个区域均分布着多个水泵,后面酒吧的黑板上展示着可用的啤酒和苹果酒。在我们的访问中,泵上有八种啤酒和四种苹果酒。至于啤酒,除了Everard's Tiger(由于与莱斯特啤酒厂合作而成为永久啤酒)之外,还有Byatts Platinum Blonde和Colonel Cocoa Dark Ale、Broadtown Line of Sight IPA和Black Llama Baltic Porter和Castle Rock Time Traveller,以及 Everard 的另外两种啤酒:Signal Session Pale Ale 和 Old Original Ruby Ale。我们尝试过的所有产品都状况良好。
这是开始或结束(或者在我们的例子中两者)任何橄榄球最好的纯麦酒酒吧的好方法。