The Red Lion, Chapelhay, Weymouth

As previously mentioned The Red Lion is a handsome looking red brick pub in the backstreets adjacent to the quay area. The interior is somewhat open and traditional. Five handpulls with four on, St Austell Tribute, Dorset Jurassic, T.T. Landlord and Lifeboat ale of unknown provenance. A pleasant but again busy pub.

A very pleasant back street pub in a red brick building which was once the Devonish Brewery Tap. It consists of a single L-shaped bar formed from four earlier rooms, with old timber flooring and small fireplaces at each end. There s a large outside seating area at the front, though I’d hesitate to call it a garden. The two female staff were a bit pathetic, but they looked like students at the end of their Summer break so that should be no surprise. The other customers were a couple of tourists who had managed to get away from the harbour, and a large group of foreign merchant seamen enjoying some shore leave. There was a basic modern pub menu, but this didn’t look very inspiring and was expensive, so we didn’t eat here. The beer was by far the best feature of this pub. Jurassic, Tribute and Landlord were on tap, plus a clip labelled ‘Lifeboat’, a rebranded ale of unknown provenance which was used to support the local RNLI station, and there was a fifth pump clipped for a mystery ale in the cellar waiting to be tapped. A box of Old Rosie was also available. The keg range was Amstel, Guinness, Thatcher’s Gold, Fosters, Estrella and Camden Hells. This one is worth seeking out if you’re in the area.

Nice old dockside pub.Lots of outside space where i sat drinking my pint of Durdle Door in the sunshine.