Garden Gate, Aldershot

A ‘wrong side of the tracks’ place which is a fair distance from town, this is a classic GBG community pub tick. Bar the tedious greyification of the interior it's fairly tidy over an inverse U shape, with a few prints and nice curtains to give a bit of homeliness. GBG listed with three cask available on my Bank Holiday Monday visit though a bit samey unfortunately, all in the ‘pale and hoppy’ camp: Hog's Back Nirvana, Dark Star Hophead and a fresh-on Surrey Hills Ranmore (NBSS 4) served-up by a fairly taciturn guv’nor. Less grey paint and more ale variety would elevate this one to a must-do, the basics are there.

An Edwardian town pub whose two original bars have been conjoined, well described by Maldenman, below. The music was a bit too loud for my liking, but the landlord was welcoming and the locals friendly. It's dog friendly and seems to have been recently decorated. Four ales on were Tribute, GK IPA, Ranmore and Good Old Boy, all in very good condition. One of the better pubs in the area and a definite for a crawl or a good evening's drinking.

A small pub, essentially one room divided into two separate drinking areas by a wall three quarters of the length of the room but accessible by a large open archway,obviously they were once two completely separate rooms as there is a doorway to each as you enter the pubs main entrance door. Its a quite simple, traditional layout inside with some banquet seating along with some small tables and stools. on the bar to the rear of the pub are four hand pumps along with some basic Lager offerings, on the pumps were Greene King IPA, Youngs Bitter and Timothy Taylors Landlord with a St Austell Tribute clip turned round on the fourth.The pint of Youngs was in good shape and as good as Iv'e had of this once fine beer in the last few years,admittedly thats not saying much. A nice pub, but a bit off the main drag with little parking opportunity's nearby,but deserves to do well.