Town Mills, Andover

Official site of Town Mills - thetownmills.co.uk

Official site of Town Mills - thetownmills.co.uk

From the outside, a glorious restoration of an old mill building, complete with river beneath. Inside, it is very much an identikit modern 'rustic' pub, with little of the old mill to show apart from the water wheel round to one side. Still one of the more pleasant places to drink in the town however. Upstairs there is a surprisingly large room with a pool table, while there is a garden at the rear leading on to the main road. Beers from Wadsworths with occasional guests and seemed in good order.

A nice looking exterior and riverside setting, but once inside it becomes an ordinary family pub, rather bland and contrived,much like the beer on offer,all Wadworth of course, 6x,Horizon,Swordfish and the misnamed IPA, I had half a Horizon setting me back £2.15. Not overly impressed.

This is a Wadworth tied house although apart from a mention of 6X on the A board outside I could see no other signage. It's a converted mill and you can see a wheel driven by the water on the right as you enter. There is also an old juke box which may or may not be responsible for the dull muzak played. I would think not as nobody in their right mind would pay to listen to rubbish like that. Inside it's a rambling place with wooden floors and solid furniture. There are steps leading upstairs from the bar area from where I could hear the sound of pool being played. The bar has six hand pumps which had two unused and just the Wadworth options of IPA, 6X, Swordfish and Horizon. I went for the Swordfish (£3.95), a beer I don't recall trying before and in good nick but I wasn't impressed. Despite my antipathy towards Wadworth beers this isn't a bad place but if the Hampshire going rate is what I paid here I'm glad I ignored their outlet near Lymington Town Station a week before.