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The Milk House (Free House)

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Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Three Acre - Hazy Pale AleGood1
Harvey's - Sussex Best BitterGood9
Bedlam - BenchmarkAcceptable1
Tonbridge - Golden RuleAcceptable1
Bedlam - Phoenix Pale AleAcceptable1
Purity - Mad GooseNot Tried0
Black Sheep - BlitzenNot Tried0
Box Steam - Sin BinNot Tried0
Picture 1. The Milk House, Sissinghurst, Kent

Visits Details

18 Feb 2023 (Wittenden)
Mid evening on a February Saturday, we'd come for a family meal.Busy in bar and dining room.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Three Acre - Hazy Pale Ale4.60GoodOn the tropical spectrum.
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00AcceptableVery ordinary.
09 Apr 2022 (Wittenden)
Saturday evening:busy with drinkers and diners.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00GoodGrainy. Second pint better than first.
Bedlam - Phoenix Pale Ale3.90Not Tried
01 Apr 2022 (Wittenden)
Busy on a wintry Friday evening. We came for a family meal and sat in the booth with the large scale OS map from yesteryear.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00Good
Bedlam - Phoenix Pale Ale3.90AcceptableThin, a bit tired.
21 Aug 2021 (Wittenden)
Early Saturday evening,family meal. More folk outside than in.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00GoodGrainy.
Tonbridge - Golden Rule3.50AcceptableDrinkable, but "sharp" sprang to mind.
21 Jun 2021 (Wittenden)
Family meal in the early evening on a wet and windy Longest Day.Busy in the dining room;several groups of drinkers in the marquee.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00ExcellentThe sole cask beer policy comes up trumps: this was in cracking form.
22 May 2021 (Wittenden)
We came for a celebratory meal: plenty of diners and perspex screens.I didn't note many drinkers, though they could have been in the big marquee in the yard.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00GoodImproved as the evening proceeded, revealing a hidden level of spicy goodness.The only cask beer available.
01 May 2021 (Wittenden)
Outdoor service under a large marquee and adjacent garden area. Busy on a Saturday lunchtime.Prompt and friendly personnel.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00AcceptableNot really what I'd been waiting for.
11 Jul 2020 (Wittenden)
Saturday midday, my first pub visit since lockdown. Alfresco here,the inside of the pub out of bounds to us mortals. I stood under the ashtree and enjoyed the magic of cask beer.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00GoodMy first cask beer since lockdown,served by gravity in a sort of garden shed.I'd been enjoying esoterica from Good Things, Three legs and dare I say ,Brewdog, but this was almost as good as it gets.
18 Feb 2020 (Wittenden)
Comfortably busy for a winter's Tuesday night with drinkers and diners.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Bedlam - Benchmark4.00AcceptableStandard fare.
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00Not Tried
Box Steam - Sin Bin4.10Not Tried
11 Jan 2020 (Wittenden)
Dusk on a gloomy and dour Saturday.A few drinkers and tea drinkers.I came for a pint:the dogs enjoyed bonios.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter4.00GoodSeemed a bit on the sweet side.
Purity - Mad Goose4.20Not Tried
Black Sheep - Blitzen4.00Not Tried

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About The Milk House

The pub sign. The Milk House, Sissinghurst, Kent

Summary of Beer Scores

 Total
Exceptional-
Excellent43
Good20
Acceptable10
Poor1

Website.

The pub is found in Sissinghurst, Kent, TN17 2JG.

Large 16th century village pub, with the familiar Whitbread Fremlins pebbledash. A large public bar, together with a room laid up for dining to your left as you go in through the imposing front door. Previously known as The Bull Inn closed for several years then completely revamped and re-opened on 20th September 2013 as The Milk House. Run by same people as The Barrow House in Egerton.

We have visited this pub 58 times, seen 52 different beers and tried 38 of them.

Map location

Postcode: TN17 2JG

This pub was formally know as the The Bull Inn.