What are the good pubs in the following towns and cities:

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I'm doing some research for my website and figured you lot are based all over the UK, lots of places I haven't ever been, and like getting shithammered on drink. What are the really standout boozers in:

Aberdeen
Bath
Bournemouth
Carlisle
Dundee
Exeter
Ipswich
Lancaster
Lincoln
Middlesbrough
Portsmouth
Preston
Shrewsbury
Southampton
Stoke
Swansea
Worcester

Any help much appreciated, thanks.

[BlodwynPig]

Geezers
The Palindrome
FoggyHorse
Old Particulars
The Sneck

[dallasman]

The Slag Heap
TGI Kristallnacht
AmpuTeepee
M/S Containergirls
Chug
Maxi Singles
The War Atrocity Museum Wine Bar
Clinkin' Chink's Drinkery
The Diseascoteque
The Tauntaun's Tit's
The Comatorium
Sloppy Seconds
The Bendery
Gehenna Gardens
Brews Almighty

[Bazooka]

The Computer and Truffle does a lovely shandy in all of the mentioned hamlets.

[BlodwynPig]

Über Vierzig Party House

[wooders1978]

Saviles is worth a visit if you're in town

[Emma Raducanu]

The Slag's Head in Carlisle. Do Carling for a quid before 5 and kids eat free. Worth a visit to the town itself.

[MoonDust]

Only pubs I went to in Aberdeen were the Wig, Ma Cameron's, and St. Machar Bar. The lattermost is in Old Aberdeen. My favourite out of those was St. Machar. The other two were pretty standard, although Ma Cameron's is in a nice old building.

But my main drinking place was either the flagship BrewDog bar, and 6 Degrees North. But these aren't really pubs, more ale bars with modern decor and that. Which is why I didn't mention them. But BrewDog is a nice place. There's two, the big one on Union Street, and the flagship bar near Marischal Square.

As for other cities, I've honestly only ever drank in Lancaster, and that was four years ago so can't remember the pub. But it was near the castle, and it was underground in an old cellar, with a nice bear garden at the entrance level. If that helps.

[Mr Eggs]

Poofters.

You allow 'em to make these lists.

FUCKIN END OF. That's all oim sayin bout it.

[The Boston Crab]

I can only really recommend one great pub in each but hopefully it will get the ball rolling for your geocities page.

Aberdeen - Granite Arms
Bath - Aquae Sluice
Bournemouth - Wayfarer's Rest
Carlisle - Large House
Dundee - Oranjeboom Industries
Exeter - Off-Oxbridge Heath
Ipswich - Felixstowe Swimming Baths
Lancaster - Bombers' Tomb
Lincoln - Dizzy Heights Hotel
Middlesbrough - The Solace and Respite
Portsmouth - Blockbuster Video
Preston - Ol' Prestwania
Shrewsbury - The Telford
Southampton - Southern Bells
Stoke - Inbred Arms
Swansea - Inbred Family Values
Worcester - Darts-Playing Predatory Homosexual's Rest

Any help much appreciated, thanks.

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[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Sweet, jotting these all down...

[holyzombiejesus]

Depends what you mean by Stoke, I guess. AFAIK, there's nothing decent (pubs or otherwise) in Stoke itself but in neighbouring Burslem, there's The Bull's Head  which is a really great Titanic pub.

Not been out for a drink round the other areas for years but Newcastle-Under-Lyme was always supposed to be the best area for drinking (but that's not in S-o-T).

[Mr Eggs]

Stoke itself

Traction Engine fun-pub.

[Jumblegraws]

The George Orwell in Dundee is pretty nice.
Edit to add: Look out for the nifty statues of the Lemmings if you walk to it along Perth Road from the city centre

[doppelkorn]

I went to the Cricketers in Ipswich on a night out in 2005. Was alright. One of them pubs with a big central island for a bar? Yeah I think that was it.

Stoke: no pub is good. Nearest good pub to Stoke is the Beartown Tap in Congleton or whichever pub Eric Bristol used to drink in in Leek.

[Brian Freeze]

As for other cities, I've honestly only ever drank in Lancaster, and that was four years ago so can't remember the pub. But it was near the castle, and it was underground in an old cellar, with a nice bear garden at the entrance level. If that helps.

The Merchants. It was a Mitchells pub when we used to go in. I can't remember the bears but it was more than 25 years ago.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Yeovil:

The Strap & Syringe
Nazi Metal Bar
Ski Slope Ibiza Fun Bar
The Horse & Manure
The Insurance & Fraud (closed after mysterious fire)

[Neville Chamberlain]

Shepton Beauchamp (Somerset, just outside Yeovil):

The Haystack
The Hayestack
The Haystacke
The Hayestacke
Ye Haystack
Ye Hayestack
Ye Haystacke
Ye Hayestacke
Ye Olde Haystack
Ye Olde Hayestack
Ye Olde Haystacke
Ye Olde Hayestacke

[Blumf]

Nazi Metal Bar

Isn't that an Apple computer reseller?

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Aberdeen - Spoons
Bath - Spoons
Bournemouth - Spoons
Carlisle - Spoons
Dundee - Spoons
Exeter - Spoons
Ipswich - Spoons
Lancaster - Spoons
Lincoln - Spoons
Middlesbrough - Spoons
Portsmouth - Spoons
Preston - Spoons
Shrewsbury - Spoons
Southampton - Spoons
Stoke - Spoons
Swansea - Spoons
Worcester - Spoons

[Kane Jones]

Not technically in the city but just outside Exeter in Newton St. Cyres, there a decent old boozer called The Beer Engine. They brew their own ales and that. Because they're right next to the Exeter-Barnstaple railway line, they give their beers 'funny' names like 'Piston Bitter'. CAMRA are all over that shit, apparently.

[Cuellar]

Southampton:

None._ooooooo

[Norton Canes]

Lancaster...

The Tap House is the closest thing I've got to a local, not in terms of proximity (it's in the city centre) but frequency of visits. Definitely the best for variety, if not sheer quantity, and it hits my personal tastes - it serves four real ales, half a dozen or so 'craft' beers (not just U.S. style craft beers, UK and European stuff too - Erdinger is usually on) on tap, has two large fridges full of all kinds of bottled beers and does gins, single malts etc.

For the largest range of real ale pumps go to The White Cross on the canal, smaller bottled range than The Tap House but nice to sit by the waterside. The Water Witch futher down the canal also has a larger than average range of real ales but it's opposite student halls so can get really busy and loud. There's half a dozen or so other pubs that have a decent range on the pumps and are nice enough places. Depends what you're after in terms of atmosphere.

We're currently down to one Spoons as the other has been closed for a couple of years with flood water damage.

More than happy to escort you to any of these. What's your website?

[poo]

Aberdeen - Spoons
Bath - Spoons
Bournemouth - Spoons
Carlisle - Spoons
Dundee - Spoons
Exeter - Spoons
Ipswich - Spoons
Lancaster - Spoons
Lincoln - Spoons
Middlesbrough - Spoons
Portsmouth - Spoons
Preston - Spoons
Shrewsbury - Spoons
Southampton - Spoons
Stoke - Spoons
Swansea - Spoons
Worcester - Spoons

[Shit Good Nose]

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Bath - Aquae Sluice

You mean Aquae Sulis?  That's really more of a hotel/restaurant than a pub.

Not many freehouses left in Bath now, and all of the REALLY shitty establishments have gone - the Hobgoblin and Bunch of Grapes (the last two holdouts against gentrification - the Grapes even still had the 80s style peanut holder with tits behind the peanut bags on the wall until they closed) both went about 18 months/2 years ago.  There are a few okay ones, though:

All Bar One (costs a fucking fortune)
Hall and Woodhouse (costs even more of a fucking fortune)
The Raven (where you can also have a Pieminister pie)
Volunteer Riflemans Arms
The Westgate
Garrick's Head (where you might see a celeb having a wee dram before or after their performance at the Theatre Royal next door)
Crystal Palace
The Boater (nice garden overlooking Pulteney Weir and a stone's throw from Bath rugby ground)
The Griffin
Brew House (though be warned it's the type of place that has 70s board games and table football and its clientele is typically made up of people who had dinner in a Cereal Restuarant beforehand)
The Huntsman (a one-time shitbox which has now had a facelift and image makeover)
The Salamander
Pig and Fiddle


There are probably others I've forgotten.

[Norton Canes]

If you're after recommendations for Preston I would basically say 'come to Lancaster'.

[kittens]

The Boater (nice garden overlooking Pulteney Weir and a stone's throw from Bath rugby ground)

i once had a tremendous argument with my ex girlfriend in that garden. highly recommended

[What Doth Life?]

The Hole In The Wall in Portsmouth is a GREAT pub, and even has a copy of Richard Madeley's moving memoir Fathers & Sons on the shelves.

[biggytitbo]

i once had a tremendous argument with my ex girlfriend in that garden. highly recommended

Trrreeeeeee-mendous

[Blue Jam]

Dundee:

The Nether Inn was nice when I went there a few years ago. It looks like it's since been done up as more of a craft beer place, and it looks a bit nicer.

There is also an Innis and Gunn Beer Kitchen there now. I haven't been but the one in Edinburgh is good so it's probably a safe bet.

Duke's Corner looks nice and it's owned by Fuller Thomson who own Holyrood 9a, The Southern and The Red Squirrel in Edinburgh, so that one's probably good as well.