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A Hoppy Place (Free House)
| Beer (sort) | Average Score (sort) | No. Samples (sort) |
|---|---|---|
| Indie Rabble - Retro Suitcase - I Love Porter |  | 1 |
| Kernel (The Kernel) - London Brick - Red Rye Ale | Not Tried | 0 |
| Kernel (The Kernel) - Small Pale Ale Columbus | Not Tried | 0 |
| Tom's Tap - Hillbilly Engineering - Pale | Not Tried | 0 |
Visits Details
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indie Rabble - Retro Suitcase - I Love Porter | 4.40 | | Came with very good head and lacing and lasting on this classic English-style porter, as it was described, and said to be the first porter released by Indie Rabble Brewing Company* and launched in November 2025. A dry hoppy first bite. A bitter fruitiness rising with a hint of raisins coming at me and the odd date and fig landing on my taste buds. Subtle smoky toasted flavours leaping up but I did not need to blow its fire out. A dry coffee-infused and dark chocolatey malty bitterness sailing out with the odd biscuit bobbing up and down for good measure. Perfectly palatable as served in good nick. £6.25 a pint but if you try this as a third and two other thirds of similar strength, you could end up paying £7.35 in total. *Indie Rabble Brewing Company is described as an award-winning independent microbrewery and taproom. It is located in Alma Road, Windsor, and founded in 2023 by the same team behind the acclaimed beer venue, A Hoppy Place, in Windsor, and from June 2022 in Maidenhead. Indie Rabble is next-door neighbours of the Two Flints Brewery and close to Windsor & Eton Brewery and Uprising Brewery, all also on the same Windsor Beer Mile as it is known. The latter is referred to as a modern craft beer brand, originally starting as a "cuckoo brewer" and sharing facilities with Windsor & Eton Brewery. Uprising has since become a dedicated brand at Windsor & Eton. |
| Kernel (The Kernel) - Small Pale Ale Columbus | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
| Tom's Tap - Hillbilly Engineering - Pale | 4.50 | Not Tried | |
| Kernel (The Kernel) - London Brick - Red Rye Ale | 5.80 | Not Tried |
About the A Hoppy Place
Summary of Beer Scores
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The pub is found in Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1TJ.
Maidenhead’s A Hoppy Place, Unit C, Trinity Place, Park Street, opened in June 2022, just less than three years on from this family-owned business opening a micropub in Windsor under the same name. Dave and Naomi, the couple behind the venture in Windsor, in seeing the potential in their hometown of Maidenhead, offer at their Maidenhead pub, as of a visit in March 2026, 14 keg lines, three rotating cask and a permanent Stardust cask ale. This latter ale comes from their nearest local brewery, an independent, family-owned craft brewery, located in White Waltham, near and south-west of Maidenhead, founded in 2016. A Hoppy Place offers a 10% CAMRA discount off their cask ale and also operates their own loyalty card scheme. Their Maidenhead establishment, with their additional pub signage also prominently displayed, Craft Beer for All, is housed in a rather modern non-descript commercial shop premises. It has in its favour an appealing piazza-style square just outside its entrance, affording plentiful seating also outside. It is not small enough to really qualify as a micropub*. It offers 60+ seats inside, 30 outside, and plenty of standing room, although its sister branch in Windsor does qualify given its petite size in a former backstreet shop. Their Maidenhead pub has been local CAMRA branch Pub of the Year for 2023 and 2024. *There is no official maximum seating capacity that disqualifies an establishment from being called a micropub. A set of ethics and an "unusually small" physical footprint rather than strict numerical rules help to define a micropub. The Micropub Association defines a micropub by being a "small free house" that shuns electronic entertainment (TVs, loud music) and focuses on cask ale and conversation.
We have visited this pub once, seen 4 different beers and tried 1 of them.
Postcode: SL6 1TJ