The Queen Vic, Stroud

Large and purple with white furniture but oddly a light wooden servery untouched by the paintbrush. Library section at the apex. Two cask over three pumps, Wainwright Amber (NBSS 2) and Doom Bar. Pool table. F1 and footy on the numerous tellyboxes. Stroud’s a tough place to love and this peculiar place is a good exemplar of it.

I believe that this pub relies on live bands for much of its trade. Either way, it hasn't been able to re-open since lockdown.

Old pub, unusually set perpendicular to the road, with an offshoot for events (The Little Vic) across the table-filled open yard. The interior of the main building has been opened-out and unsympathetically refurbished at some stage to leave one long and quite narrow space with the counter in the middle, a notional seating area at one end and the pool table at the other. Two banks of three handpumps, dispensing 6X, Jennings Sneck Lifter and the local Stroud Tom Long (£3.65) plus a cider and perry from Black Rat. Keg Hobgoglin IPA (a new one on me) also noted.