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The Four Candles Alehouse (Free House)

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Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Four Candles - Hazelnut PorterExcellent1
Four Candles - Target BitterExcellent1
Four Candles - East Kent BitterExcellent1
Four Candles - CitraExcellent1
Four Candles - Citra Harlequin IPAExcellent1
Four Candles - Target PorterExcellent1
Four Candles - Goldings Session PaleExcellent1
Four Candles - Bobek Session BitterGood1
Four Candles - Coffee & Hazelnut PorterGood1
Four Candles - Triple HopGood1
Four Candles - American Double HopGood1
Four Candles - IPAGood1
Four Candles - Biscuity PaleAcceptable1
Four Candles - Challenger BitterNot Tried0
Four Candles - Wakatu Session PaleNot Tried0
Four Candles - East Kent IPANot Tried0
Picture 1. The Four Candles Alehouse, St Peter's, Kent
Picture 2. The Four Candles Alehouse, St Peter's, Kent

Visits Details

21 Dec 2023 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit, originally the planned first of a mini crawl but the conversation and ale kept me locked in just here until the train home.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Citra Harlequin IPA4.80ExcellentWell balanced two hop mix
Four Candles - Goldings Session Pale4.10ExcellentSo very good I had to have a second one
Four Candles - Target Bitter4.40ExcellentVery distinctive flavour in top condition
22 Oct 2023 (Dosser)
After a month away my first real ales on a crawl around Broadstairs. 3 beers on.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - IPA5.30GoodNice crisp IPA badged at 4.6%. £4.20 a pint.
03 Feb 2022 (Dosser)
4 beers on today, £3.40 to £3.60 a pint
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Triple Hop4.90GoodNice pint, but the one I had at the Conk was better! Higher carbon footprint.
17 Sep 2021 (Dosser)
Pub crawl around Broadstairs micros. 3 beers on here. Very familiar from conqueror.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Coffee & Hazelnut Porter4.70GoodSame porter as in conk. Sweet. One was enough.£3.40
29 Aug 2021 (Andrew)
Eight or so people were sitting at small tables outside and inside were a couple, and two people playing chess.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Bobek Session Bitter3.90GoodCrisp clean bitter
Four Candles - East Kent IPA5.00Not Tried
Four Candles - Challenger Bitter4.00Not Tried
31 Jan 2020 (Dosser)
3 beers on, all under 4.2%
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Biscuity Pale3.80AcceptableGiven the wrong beer but it was OK
09 Aug 2019 (Magnus Greel)
Late afternoon and uncomfortably crowded, with many groups gathered on the pavement outside. Unfriendly welcome grunt from the locals when asked if we could share the couple of spaces free on their table. More folk entered hampering beer delivery who then decided to squeeze out our personal space hence we upped and left.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Citra4.10ExcellentVery good as expected, alas didn't note or have a chance to try the other beers on today.
27 Jul 2019 (Dosser)
Angies birthday so its a pub crawl around Broadstairs. Mike the landlord was behind the bar of the Albion opposite having taken over as temp Management. One beer on there, Four Candles ale at £3.60 a pint. 40p more than his own pub. This pub doesnt seem to be on this site
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - American Double Hop4.50GoodNice pint
09 Feb 2019 (Andrew)
Last stop of the night and busy. We ended standing up chatting to a local about pubs in Herne Bay. I really like this pub.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Hazelnut Porter4.90Excellent
Four Candles - East Kent Bitter4.10Excellent
Four Candles - Wakatu Session Pale3.80Not Tried
10 Jan 2019 (ChrisE)
Early doors at 4.30 for 5pm opening. Warm and welcoming, we stayed for longer than originally planned and cut out our visit to the next pub. A proper micropub.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Four Candles - Target Porter4.20Excellent

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About The Four Candles Alehouse

The pub sign. The Four Candles Alehouse, St Peter's, Kent

Summary of Beer Scores

 Total
Exceptional1
Excellent34
Good24
Acceptable5
Poor1

Website.

The pub is found in St Peter's, Kent, CT10 2AT.

Located in Sowell Street in former shop premises, converted to become one of Thanet's ever increasing population of micropubs. Like the other micropubs which are becoming a popular part of the East Kent drinking scene this shop conversion is a street corner former shop building with its entrance front door on the corner itself. The real ales and cider are served direct by gravity from casks in the rear temperature controlled stillage room. Access to the toilet is via the stillage room. First opened on the evening of Thursday 9th August 2012 just in time to benefit from the Broadstairs Folk Week starting the very next day. Although the pub name is prompted by a Two Ronnies TV sketch please do not try buying here any hoes, plugs, saw tips, peas, pumps, washers or even billhooks. Just beer and cider should do. A small in-house brewery installation was subsequently made here.

We have visited this pub 50 times, seen 93 different beers and tried 60 of them.

Map location

Postcode: CT10 2AT