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The Weather Station, Reading
Reading
RG1 4DX
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Quinno _ left this review about The Weather Station
Closes 3rd September.
March 2022
Now run by the local(ish) Wild Weather Brewery and as such has become a craft place with some of the usual stylistic trappings. The whole interior is stripped-back and opened-out which makes for terrible acoustics and a chilly visit outside of summer as they seem to have an aversion to turning on the heating. Up to three cask ales, usually 2x Wild Weather plus a guest. Quality middling; I’ve had some good ones and some poor ones, I get the impression that most of the staff don’t really know much about the cask beyond blather.
October 2017
After Wadworth sold the place it closed and its future was uncertain. However it has re-opened with almost no change inside (though the kitchen has gone, so it's a wet-only place now). The big break is at the bar - free-of-tie and a good mix of 5 or so local ales are available. The quality has started to really hit home and the last few visits have been really good. Could well be back in a big way, which is fantastic news.
July 2016
Things have settled in here and the beer quality is undeniably good and there's often a guest available. If you like the Waddies it's worth the 10 minute walk out of the centre to sample.
December 2014
Another new set of licensees and another (much more radical) refurb. The two bars have been knocked into one. Five Wadworth ales on plus Thatchers Heritage cider.
February 2014
Brian and Ann have now retired after 39 years. Well...the interior has been done over in white and duck egg blue beloved of the current refurb brigade. The lounge bar is pretty bereft but perhaps that's just shock. The couple behind the bar were nice enough and the beer was fine but the place has lost an element of familiar cosiness. There is a guest ale on though and quality seems relatively good after repeated visits.
June 2012
Unspoilt back street local in the posh bit of town (well the bit that looks like Bath anyway), with two bars in a traditional format of lounge and public. Usually 4-5 Wadworth beers available. Quality is usually relatively good though I have had to take back the odd duffer. Dartboard is available and a quiz is on Wednesdays. Live music also features. Brian and Anne have run this place for almost 40 years. Badly-tuned local radio is annoying though. If you like 'proper pub interiors' this one is worth a look.
On 2nd August 2022
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john gray left this review about The Weather Station
Great improvement to what was a traditional style pub.Bright and modern now.Two or three cask beers and about 15 keg beers mostly from Wild Weather brewery who run this pub.Really like this brewery hence the visit and had some very good beers.Friendly bar staff and locals meant me and my son stayed for a few hours.
On 7th December 2019
- rating: 8
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Eldon Arms
New colour scheme since the last visit. I checked on Google Maps!
8 real ales on in a bar with me and two others. Makes you wonder about the turnover.
TT Golden Best was in fine condition.
Sure its great when busy.
On 16th August 2017
- rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about The Eldon Arms
My first visit here in over four years, now refurberd into one long room,traditionaly laid out and decorated in coffee and Cream colours with the exception of the red bar front.There are nine handpumps on the bar itself, all were clipped but two were labelled coming soon, that left four different Wadworth beers and three guests which were, Windsor & Eton Boatman, By The Horns The Mayor Of Garratt and Roosters Californian Common which was rather good.Although I'm not a great fan of Wadworths beers I was very impressed with this pub, with a decent guest beer policy,backed up by the numerous beer clips displayed on the overhead beams, Its most definately a pub worth coming back to.
On 1st August 2016
- rating: 8
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picasso 09 left this review about The Eldon Arms
Basic back street boozer serving Wadsworth beers. Not a pub I would go out of my way to visit but as its a short walk from the excellent Retreat I may well try it again.
On 4th April 2012
- rating: 6
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I L left this review about The Eldon Arms
Ap leasant backstreet bar that we have been meaning to do for a number of years but it does shut in the afternoons hence why we have missed it. This time we got there not long after opening at mid day on a Saturday. Both externally and internally this pub is well looked after. Two separate drinking areas only accessed from outside with a long bar passing though the two of them, with the left hand area having timber panelling and a tiled floor.
On our visit there were at least 5 ales from Wadsworth on hand pull and the one we had was well kept. Only a few minutes walk from the Retreat pub.
On 9th January 2012
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Old Boots left this review about The Eldon Arms
It may be a cliché to say “unspoilt back street local” but that just about sums up the Eldon. Two bars pleasantly decorated with lots of unostentatious old wood and etched windows, although the public bar shows signs of a Guinness fetishist being about. A substantial range of Wadworths cask beers, plus standard kegs from Carlsberg, Stella, Heineken and Fosters with Guinness (of course), Blackthorn and Strongbow. Big TV at one end and piped music from the local radio station but then it was a quiet Monday night with only Morris Dancing to look forward to when I dropped in.
On 21st November 2009
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train man left this review about The Eldon Arms
nb. closes pm (3-6?) even on Saturday, but we were kindly alerted to this at the Retreat & arrived in plenty of time to a nice welcome and strong line-up of Wadworth beers - 6X, Henry's IPA, JcB, Bishops Tipple, Horizon, & Mild. The Horizon pump was not visible from where we stood and I was rather pleased that the landlady took friendly umbrage when I tentatively asked whether it was a k.e... beer, haha, it wasn't, phew! Just our group (now 5) at 14:30.
On 23rd March 2008
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