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The Cumberland Inn (Punch Taverns)

Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Lancaster - BlondeAcceptable1
Picture 1. The Cumberland Inn, Carlisle, Cumbria
Stephen Harris

Visits Details

19 May 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening. A must visit to get the feel of a Carlisle State Management Scheme house, quite unchanged by time. However the single forlorn handpump was pumpclip-less due, the barmaid said, to being unable to move cask ale here. An 'alf of 'rthur Guinness's draught extra cold sufficed.
BeerABVScoreNotes
28 Jul 2012 (Stephen Harris)
There is a banner in the back garden declaring that this pub is in the 2012 Good Beer Guide. It isn’t. At least, it’s not in my copy, although I do admit that a few pages have fallen out. And on today’s performance, it shouldn’t be. It does however have a splendid, wood-panelled interior.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Lancaster - Blonde4.00AcceptableWell past its best, but still discernable as a decent pale beer with a sweetish caramel taste and some citrusy hop.

About The Cumberland Inn

The pub sign. The Cumberland Inn, Carlisle, Cumbria

Summary of Beer Scores

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The pub is found in Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 1QS.

Something of a Grade II listed time-warp pub in Botchergate, whose interior cannot have changed for many years. An ex-Carlisle State Management Scheme house. Wood panelling and framed black and white photographs. Small backyard. It is a few minutes’ walk from Carlisle railway station, somehow surviving despite having a Wetherspoon pub to either side. A single handpump rarely if ever dispenses cask ale.

We have visited this pub twice, seen 1 beer and tried it.

Map location

Postcode: CA1 1QS