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Arden Arms (Robinsons)

Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Robinsons - UnicornExcellent1
Robinsons - Hoptimus PrimeGood1
Robinsons - Hartleys Cumbrian XBNot Tried0
Robinsons - Trooper (superseded by 4.7% version)Not Tried0
Robinsons - Dizzy Blonde Amarillo Pale AleNot Tried0
Robinsons - build a rocket boys!Not Tried0
Robinsons - Black BeautyNot Tried0
Robinsons - EnigmaNot Tried0
Robinsons - 1892 Fine Cheshire AleNot Tried0
Picture 1. Arden Arms, Stockport, Greater Manchester
Picture 2. Arden Arms, Stockport, Greater Manchester

Visits Details

27 Mar 2014 (HSB)
16:15 The snug behind the bar had space so we asked and went through the bar to sit there. A terrific pub room. The presence of a modern coffee machine does not detract.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Robinsons - Hoptimus Prime4.10Good
Robinsons - Unicorn4.20Not Tried
Robinsons - Hartleys Cumbrian XB4.00Not Tried
Robinsons - Dizzy Blonde Amarillo Pale Ale3.80Not Tried
Robinsons - 1892 Fine Cheshire Ale3.30Not Tried
Robinsons - Trooper (superseded by 4.7% version)4.80Not Tried
11 May 2012 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening 1955 hours. All parts of the pub were busy. The room at the back of the pub was busy with diners. Just a personal view but I'd like this pub to be just a beer swilling house in view of the consistently high quality of the ales.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Robinsons - Unicorn4.20ExcellentAbsolutely top notch
Robinsons - Dizzy Blonde Amarillo Pale Ale3.80Not Tried
Robinsons - build a rocket boys!4.00Not Tried
Robinsons - Black Beauty4.30Not Tried
Robinsons - Enigma4.30Not Tried
Robinsons - 1892 Fine Cheshire Ale3.30Not TriedFormerly named Hatters Mild

About the Arden Arms

The pub sign. Arden Arms, Stockport, Greater Manchester

Summary of Beer Scores

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Website.

The pub is found in Stockport, Greater Manchester, SK1 2LX.

Physically a gem of a pub, an early 19th century coaching inn set on the edge of Stockport's historic Market Place. Down a steep little hill from the Market itself. The Good Beer Guide describes the pub as "Grade II listed & warranting a visit for the building alone". The Guide continues "Note the fine bar, tiled lobby, grandfather clock & splendid snug". The brand new ’Arden Arms’ was built in 1815, in the contemporary late Georgian style. A print of Millgate in the mid 19th century, reproduced in Heginbotham’s ’History of Stockport’, shows the pub looking distinctly modern compared to the thatched dwellings on the opposite side of the road. In 1889 the ’Arden’ was bought by Robinsons Brewery and in 1908 they set about the first and last major ‘modernisation’ of the pub. The scheme involved the construction of the stabled courtyard to the rear and side of the building, alterations to the ground floor windows and interior work to create bench seating in the snug & vault. When visiting you will note the classic multi roomed layout of the pub, the fine curved wooden bar, the original tiled floors and the tiny snug you can only reach by being invited through the bar. You may be invited to go down the steep stairs to the cellar to visit the mortuary slabs, testament to the time when inquests were held at this historic pub.

We have visited this pub twice, seen 9 different beers and tried 2 of them.

Map location

Postcode: SK1 2LX