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The Hovelling Boat Inn (Free House) [More Visits ]
Chris Excell
Visits Details 06 Aug 2022 (Dosser)
A fine selection of ales here on a sunny Saturday evening. And on a hot day no-one was complaining.
Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds') - West Coast IPA (superseded by 5.6% version) 6.50 Doesn't get much better. First higher strength beer from Gadds for a while. Worth waiting for. £3.80 a pint. Thornbridge / Thornbridge Hall - Jaipur 5.90 Slight difference with normal taste. Still a good pint though.
04 Aug 2022 (Dosser)
4 beers on. All the beers were very cold here and that was welcome.
Angels & Demons (also uses McCanns branding) - Black Taxi to the Moon 5.40 £3.80 a pint and very cold.
29 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
4 beers on. First time ive seen the landlord in ages.
Angels & Demons (also uses McCanns branding) - Evil Thieves 5.10 Quality hoppy beer
24 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
5 beers on and very hot outside.
Thornbridge / Thornbridge Hall - Jaipur 5.90 Lovely cold pint. £4. Great.
22 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
4 beers on
Kent - Tropic Ale 4.90 As good as ever
20 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
Sat outside watching petanque. 4 beers on.
Kent - Tropic Ale 4.90 Very hoppy 3D (a brand of Epic Beers) - Flat out like a Lizard Drinkin' 5.00 Another hoppy citrus beer
18 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
5 beers on. Boiling day.
Titanic - Plum Porter 4.90
14 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
3 beers on, 3 beers settling.
Kent - Hazed and Confused 4.60 Hazy grapefruit Angels & Demons (also uses McCanns branding) - Tyler the Viking 5.10 Oaty IPA
11 Jul 2022 (Dosser)
Hot afternoon. 4 beers available
Angels & Demons (also uses McCanns branding) - Evil Thieves 5.10 Fine hoppy beer. £3.80.
12 Jun 2022 (Dosser)
After Jack's report on taxi here yesterday I needed a pint. 4 beers on and several different to Jack's selection yesterday.
Angels & Demons (also uses McCanns branding) - Black Taxi to the Moon 5.40 Quality beer at £4 a pint.
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Summary of Beer Scores
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The pub is found in Ramsgate , Kent , CT11 9DS .
Micropub in York Street that opened on Good Friday 2013 on the site of the Hovelling Boat pub which closed in 1909 (and re-opened 104 years later). No lager or keg beers are sold here. Other past lives of the building have been as a florist's shop and a fancy gift shop. A menu of the beer and cider on offer is shown on a wall blackboard then your drink is fetched (with table service) from a back room having been served on gravity dispense there. Under new ownership in spring 2018.
We have visited this pub 289 times, seen 356 different beers and tried 242 of them.
Map location
Postcode: CT11 9DS