With the new owner in place much more friendly.

Much improved under the new ownership. Does get very busy.

15:00 After a very pleasant visit to the Rat Race we continued our micro-pub trail with a visit here. Arrived dead on opening time, shutters were closed as we got out of the cab. Soon opened though. The owner came out and told us his chiller wasn't working so he couldn't open. I said we had come a long way to visit his pub at which point he lost it. He started ranting and raving about his problems in a very aggressive manner. We beat a hasty retreat. Has rather put me off making long journeys to one-man band operations.

Busyish. Two Milestone beers which were avoided and my Beer of The Week.

Very busy but we struggled to find an interesting ale and resorted to bottled Punk. Do wish these new wave micro pubs would look at the quality of what they're ordering as well as the colour and 'newness' of the beer.

Full to capacity well before closing time there seemed to be a good mix of regulars and new faces. In a real ale desert this is very welcome addition and it's success demonstrates that people will visit a conversation led pub offering real ales. It does seem though to be following the direction of offering as many different beers as possible. Possibly, at the expense of absolute beer quality. I tend to think Martin Hillier's original model of choosing good beer and bringing the best out of it by skilled serve has more mileage.