Sip and Spin Bar, Reading

My first visit here in over four years, now refurberd into one long room,traditionaly laid out and decorated in coffee and Cream colours with the exception of the red bar front.There are nine handpumps on the bar itself, all were clipped but two were labelled coming soon, that left four different Wadworth beers and three guests which were, Windsor & Eton Boatman, By The Horns The Mayor Of Garratt and Roosters Californian Common which was rather good.Although I'm not a great fan of Wadworths beers I was very impressed with this pub, with a decent guest beer policy,backed up by the numerous beer clips displayed on the overhead beams, Its most definately a pub worth coming back to.

nb. closes pm (3-6?) even on Saturday, but we were kindly alerted to this at the Retreat & arrived in plenty of time to a nice welcome and strong line-up of Wadworth beers - 6X, Henry's IPA, JcB, Bishops Tipple, Horizon, & Mild. The Horizon pump was not visible from where we stood and I was rather pleased that the landlady took friendly umbrage when I tentatively asked whether it was a k.e... beer, haha, it wasn't, phew! Just our group (now 5) at 14:30.