The Loggerheads, Shrewsbury

Very interesting pub and worth the visit for the grade II listed status alone. An adventure just getting in and finding the bar! Not too impressed with the real ale choice mind. Think there were 3 on and when I asked about the "Snecklifter", the advice was that it was 5.1%. Not quite the tasting notes I had in mind. Decent enough pint. Some photos at my blog - http://mappiman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/270615-shrewsbury-pub-crawl.html

Well worth a visit good do with a bit of a clean was Sunday night when we called in about 9.30 bit untidy and a folk band on in the back room the looked as if they had taken the room up not a lot of drinking going on with them and the music was not that good but did not put me off will call again

My first visit to the Loggerheads. I entered by door to the snug with it's small hatch. To view the place I wandered across to the lounge with another small hatch. Wanting to see the pumps, I finally walked into the small public bar and settled on the only bar stool in the right hand corner. Normally I might have been disappointed with just 4 Marston's beers on the 7 handpumps (other 3 had clips turned), but my pint of Bold Forresters was excellent and good enough to stay for another (partly due to watching the end of the Middleweight World Championship fight). Pubs are all about time and occasion, and on my short stay today, everything felt just right.

The first "proper" old pub that we tried in Shrewsbury, having had it bulled up by our tour leader. The Loggerheads was however a little disappointing, the beer was mediocre and at 5pm on a Saturday evening, we were struggling to find anywhere to sit. In my opinion, there are better pubs in town. Ancient history is fine, but really I am there for the beer.