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Rising Sun (Free House)

Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Oakham - Green Hop Harvest AleExcellent1
Oakham - JHBExcellent1
Mighty Oak - Maldon GoldExcellent1
Oakham - CitraExcellent1
Crouch Vale - Brewers GoldGood1
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Best Bitter (use Marston's entry now please)Not Tried0
Green Jack - Orange WheatNot Tried0
Adnams - LighthouseNot Tried0
Green Jack - Mahseer IPA (superseded by 5.8% version)Not Tried0
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Directors (use Banks's entry now please)Not Tried0

Visits Details

02 Nov 2013 (thebrewingman)
Lunchtime. A few drinkers around the bar area. No hand pumps but eight fikins on a stillage at the rear of the bar area. No food.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Mighty Oak - Maldon Gold3.80Excellent
Oakham - Citra4.20Excellent
Oakham - Green Hop Harvest Ale3.60Excellent
Oakham - JHB3.80Not Tried
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Best Bitter (use Marston's entry now please)4.00Not TriedA regular, apparently but not on this lunchtime.
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Directors (use Banks's entry now please)4.80Not Tried
21 Apr 2012 (Pedro)
Evening
BeerABVScoreNotes
Oakham - JHB3.80Excellent
Crouch Vale - Brewers Gold4.00Good
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Best Bitter (use Marston's entry now please)4.00Not Tried
Green Jack - Orange Wheat4.20Not TriedGuessing my notes of Citra really meant this one!
Adnams - Lighthouse3.40Not Tried
Green Jack - Mahseer IPA (superseded by 5.8% version)5.00Not Tried

About the Rising Sun

Summary of Beer Scores

 Total
Exceptional-
Excellent4
Good1
Acceptable-
Poor-

Website.

The pub is found in High Wych, Hertfordshire, CM21 0HZ.

A detached whitewashed exterior house in a village near Sawbridgeworth. By early 1970s one of the last few pubs in the area to sell real ale still and the only one selling on gravity dispense. In those days sold Courage ales. Pub considerably updated since then but still an emphasis on real ale and has been the local CAMRA branch Pub of the Year a number of times. Still no handpumps - all ale sold direct from the cask.

We have visited this pub twice, seen 10 different beers and tried 5 of them.

Map location

Postcode: CM21 0HZ