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The Mayflower (Rotherhithe Pub Company)

Beer (sort)	Average Score (sort)	No. Samples (sort)
Dark Star - Hophead (some, if not most, also brewed by Fuller's)		1
Hook Norton - Hooky		1
Greene King - Fireside	Not Tried	0
York - Guzzler	Not Tried	0
Brains - The Rev James Original	Not Tried	0
Greene King - Hardys & Hansons Rocking Rudolph	Not Tried	0
Greene King - Abbot Ale	Not Tried	0
Ossett - Silver King	Not Tried	0
Black Sheep - Special Ale (previously Ale)	Not Tried	0
St Austell - Liquid Sunshine	Not Tried	0
Greene King - Mayflower Scurvy Ale (house beer)	Not Tried	0

Picture 1. The Mayflower, Rotherhithe, Greater London

Visits Details

02 Sep 2015 (Philip Pirrip)

Evening. A right old tourist trap. A bossy barmaid scolded me for not having asked for a straight glass at time of ordering, presumably assuming I had psychic knowledge of the pub's "quaint" policy of serving ales in jugs. A good reason for this being my last visit.

Beer	ABV	Score	Notes
Hook Norton - Hooky	3.50
Greene King - Abbot Ale	5.00	Not Tried
Ossett - Silver King	4.30	Not Tried
Black Sheep - Special Ale (previously Ale)	4.40	Not Tried	Ran out
St Austell - Liquid Sunshine	3.90	Not Tried
Greene King - Mayflower Scurvy Ale (house beer)	3.90	Not Tried	Not a jot of Greene King provenance on the pumpclip

12 Dec 2014 (Stephen Harris)

A nostalgic visit for me to a pub that was for a few years in the late-1980s my local, when I lived just yards away on the Swan Road Estate. It was a time when the area was a bit of a battleground between squatters, council tenants and ‘yuppie’ invaders. We had recently transferred from the first camp into the second, but in time this pub was lost to the third. Dominated today by a raucous Christmas party table.

Beer	ABV	Score	Notes
Dark Star - Hophead (some, if not most, also brewed by Fuller's)	3.80		A reliably excellent beer.
Greene King - Fireside	4.50	Not Tried
York - Guzzler	3.60	Not Tried
Brains - The Rev James Original	4.50	Not Tried
Greene King - Hardys & Hansons Rocking Rudolph	4.20	Not Tried

About The Mayflower

The pub sign. The Mayflower, Rotherhithe, Greater London

Summary of Beer Scores

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Website.

The pub is found in Rotherhithe, Greater London, SE16 4NF.

An ancient, riverside pub believed to have been established, as the Ship, in 1550. Associated with the departure point of the Mayflower, which sailed from here, via Plymouth, to the Americas with a shipload of Pilgrim Fathers in 1620. The pub was rebuilt in the eighteenth century (supposedly incorporating timbers from the Mayflower) and became known as the Spread Eagle & Crown, before adopting the Mayflower name in the 1960s. It has the appearance of venerable age, with plenty of dark timber and nooks and crannies. There is a riverside, wooden, drinking platform. Popular with American tourists. 6 handpumps.

We have visited this pub twice, seen 11 different beers and tried 2 of them.

Map location

Postcode: SE16 4NF