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The Butchers Arms (Free House)

Beer (sort)	Average Score (sort)	No. Samples (sort)
Oakham - JHB		4
Larkins - Porter		3
JW Lees (see also Lees) - Harvest Ale		1
Larkins - Chiddingstone		1
Timothy Taylor - Landlord		1
Mauldons - Black Adder	Not Tried	0

Picture 1. The Butchers Arms, Herne, Kent

Picture 2. The Butchers Arms, Herne, Kent

Visits Details

29 Jan 2005 (Ian)

Excellent beer shop with up to 4 beers available to take home. Always kept in superb condition

Beer	ABV	Score	Notes
Oakham - JHB	3.80		Great grapefruit and lemon fruit with quenching dry hoppiness on end
JW Lees (see also Lees) - Harvest Ale	11.50		Sensational barley wine with raisins and brown sugar balanced by a hoppy finish. Magnificent. Like drinking a good sherry

22 Jan 2005 (Andrew)

He tells me that Brains SA is coming on soon and that when he becomes a pub he'll definitely have a mild on.

Beer	ABV	Score	Notes
Larkins - Porter	5.20		This stuff is just fantastic. It just doesn't taste like a 5.2% beer. The caramel and burnt malt balance is perfect and I just love drinking it
Timothy Taylor - Landlord	4.30		Perhaps this will get better after a day or two but at first taste it's a bit 'busy'
Oakham - JHB	3.80	Not Tried

15 Jan 2005 (Andrew)

Still not a pub (but will be by the end of the year he thinks)

Beer	ABV	Score	Notes
Oakham - JHB	3.80		A loverly pint of hoppy, dry, fruity pale beer
Larkins - Porter	5.20		Every time I have this it gets better and better. The ballance between burnt malt and caramel is fantastic and this now rates as one of my favourite beers of all time

31 Dec 2004 (Andrew)

Beer	ABV	Notes
Oakham - JHB	3.80	Very crisp and refreshing
Larkins - Chiddingstone	4.00	Copper coloured, sweet intense beer
Larkins - Porter	5.20	Very caramely and burnt. Loverly but I probably wouldn't want more than half a pint of it

11 Dec 2004 (Andrew)

This is the first time I've ever been here although I've heard a lot about it. The front room looks like a cross between a workshop and a beer-obsessed nutter's bedroom. Though some see-through plastic slitted drap you can see a row of barrels... lots of barrels. Ummmmm....I like this kind of shop.

Beer	ABV	Score	Notes
Oakham - JHB	3.80		Now a score of Excellent from me is saying somethign when it comes to JHB. ...but this beer really was excellent. Very very hoppy but with a fruity depth to it that I've rarely tasted in pub bought pint of it. Loverly.
Mauldons - Black Adder	5.30	Not Tried	Well I did actually try it but only a sip. Tasted like a very alcoholic porter: far too alcoholic for me.

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About The Butchers Arms

The pub sign. The Butchers Arms, Herne, Kent

Summary of Beer Scores

	Total
	241
	432
	95
	15
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Website.

The pub is found in Herne, Kent, CT6 7HL.

In the middle of Herne village in Herne Street, once the Canterbury Beer Shop selling beer straight from the cask. It is now a pub (with the same owner as before) and still does off-sales which is fantastic! Voted CAMRA Kent Pub of the Year in 2008 and East Kent CAMRA Pub of the Year in 2009 (...and not surprisingly). Regarded universally as the first micropub, which has spawned many similar ventures in East Kent and throughout the UK. Real ales are kept on gravity dispense in a cold room to the right and you will view this when you walk through it to the unisex toilet at the rear. Displays a Micropub Association Certificate of Registration warranting, annually, that it adheres to the tenets and ethics of the Association's definition of a micropub. Since post-Covid re-opening in October 2021 now open 5-8 Tuesday to Friday only. The landlord and founder of the Micropub Association, Martyn Hillier, was awarded an MBE in the 2024 New Years Honours list for services to Business and to Hospitality. Cash only accepted, no card payment facility.

We have visited this pub 385 times, seen 166 different beers and tried 136 of them.

Map location

Postcode: CT6 7HL