The Black Country Arms, Walsall

Our first visit to this Black Country Ales pub which is in the 2019 Good Beer Guide. Seating on a variety of levels but a lot of stairs and no disabled loo for those that may need one. Massive selection of real ales available and a brilliant TV screen of the beers. Great on a quiet lunchtime but if folk sit right along the bar as stated in a previous post I can imagine seeing the clips to help choose your beer could be difficult. We enjoyed our Weetwood Cheshire Plain and Milestone Pekka. A beer festival due to be held here in a couple of weeks.

Very good Black Country ales pub with a great choice of beers. It is a long way from the old Green Dragon! My only gripe is the row of locals the full length of the bar who made no attempt to give way to any other customers. That said I would call again due to the beer!

This is a fairly typical Black Country pub with a huge array of beers and ciders. It's a split level room with carpets rather than bare floorboards and the bar on the upper level on the right. There is another level above which includes a dart board. My one gripe about this place is that there are bar stools along the length of the bar and on my Saturday afternoon visit most of them were taken up. This made it far more difficult to get served than it should have been and to make matters worse the three on the stools near where I sat were droning on about football. I couldn't be bothered to struggle to get to the end of the bar to read the blackboard so just looked at what was nearby. I noticed a couple from the Black Hole brewery but then spotted Celt Experience Bleddyn 1075 (£3.20). This was in superb condition. I see from a review below that this is rated on the Dark Side as the number one West Midlands pub. It wouldn't get into my top 10 but it's still a pretty good place much like all the other Black Country Brewery pubs I've visited. It's a shame about the bar stools.