The Grapes Inn, Welshpool

Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Grapes Inn

I doubt many visitors to Welshpool manage to get to this pub to the eastern end of town. With no real ale, I wouldn't normally have bothered. However, it is listed on CAMRA's heritage pub list and as I had time for a swift nightcap, I thought I would give it a try.

The interior is a very basic local boozer. The landlord and a group of young local lads were expecting somebody else to be walking through the door. However, I still received a friendly greeting. As you enter, there is a small room with a pool table to the front right, with the bar just beyond that on the right-hand side.

Originally, there was a corridor with two separate rooms to the left and another room to the rear right. The left-hand side has now been opened out to be a single room, with the room to the rear right being used as a store room. Ironically, it was this snug room with a 100-year-old bar counter that gets the CAMRA plaudits. Toilets are outdoors at the rear.

As all of the young lads departed, I got talking to the landlord who gave me a guided tour of the pub and we also established that we shared the same football allegiance with him having a season ticket in the same stand and the same row as me! It really does seem like a small world at times.

The keg selection here was Carling, Coors, Worthington's, Thatchers Haze, John Smith's, Strongbow & Carling Black Fruits. This is a proper drinkers' pub popular with local sports and darts teams. It probably won't appeal to most, but I quite enjoyed my visit here.

On 3^rd March 2024 - rating: 6
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