Webster's Brewhouse, Wollaston, Stourbridge

Bit basic and run down, large pub with real ales but not of good quality. Not helped by what appeaqred to be the argumentative son of the owner. Bit average and not a pleasant experience.

I found the staff friendly and welcoming on our visit. There was a choice of seven handpumps on the bar, two of which were from their own micro brewery named Websters. I went for Greeves Brewery Aurelion, which was in good shape, unfortunately one of our pals went for their Websters, which was in poor shape and he left most of the pint on the bar. The gents toilets were shoddy and the hand dryers were out of order. The general décor throughout the pub was tired and tatty around the edges. Obviously our Black Country coach tour organisers had pre warned the pub of our visit, so to put a poor conditioned ale on the bar was a bad move.

Local CAMRA pub of the year 2014, sadly I didn't have a good experience during a recent visit: dirty glass and the server held the glass by the rim during pouring. Only pale ales on tap and the one I tried sadly wasn't at it's best. Previous comments re the decor still hold true and it may be worth a return visit - perhaps when it's not so busy.

Lovely single roomed pub where the long room has a comfy area at the front, and then down the room to a conservatory area at the back. There is also a covered smoking area and patio. The selection of real ales was great, as was the condition of them and the pub is in the 2015 Good Beer Guide. There were 3 Salopian beers, Roosters Leghorn and Stancill Ginger Pale Ale which was very refreshing. Before we left, a new beer was put on from Websters of Wollaston and we found that it was brewed at the pub, starting up very recently. This was GPA 4.5%. Very good too.

This is a detached Victorian pub, formerly called the Cottage Spring. The pub is a cottage styled front, with the central door flanked by windows and it is in white render, with grey paintwork. It extends quite away to the back, where there is a conservatory and a beer garden. The interior has lost all of the internal rooms it once had. It opens up to the left and right on entry and then moves down the pub, passing the bar on the right, before turning right into a conservatory area. The place is modern. It is in light grey, white and exposed brick (white and green in the conservatory) with a mainly red tile floor. There are grren perimeter and comfy seats, some sofas, foody kind of tables at the back with a few vases, with twigs in, as well as smaller ones on the tables with flowers in. The art on the walls is bisto stuff and there are a couple of fireplaces, one in each of the old rooms at the front and one at the back, past the serving bar. There was no TV that i saw and the music was general and at a decent level. The service was fine and the clientele mianly younger people. Beer; usual tap stuff with Shropshire Oracle, Gold, Enville Ginger, Banks's MILD, Angel Equinox and Ilkley Fireside Porter on handpull. The Porter and Equinox were well kept and decent. Whilst this pub has been modernised inside, which isn't to my (a traditionalist) taste, the beer choice and quality mean that if you don't visit, it is you that misses out. The name didn't inspire any thought that we would really stop off here, but i thank the good Lord that we saw the LocAle signs on the windows.