The Generous Briton, Loughborough

The Generous Briton has a left-hand public bar with seating and a pool table and dartboard in the rear, but I spent my visit mainly in the tile floored right-hand lounge bar where black leatherette stools with odd metal hoops on the back line the serving counter. There’s a stone fireplace on the front wall and one of the two televisions was showing muted Sky Sports while some 1960’s background music played. Premium keg was available alongside Neck Oil and Carling, and three of the four hand pumps I spotted were drawing Bass, Bateman’s XXXB and Charnwood Brewery’s Salvation. The service from the barmaid was very friendly so I’d pop back in for one if passing.

Official site of The Generous Briton - thegb.pub

Official site of The Generous Briton - thegb.pub

A two bar corner pub, solid brick local from the outside but modern on the inside. Entering the vestibule off Ashby Road there’s a public bar/games room to the left and a slightly more lounge like bar to the right with a second door on Regent Street. Pool, darts, screen and no pulls in the public but only a T-Bar. A couple of screens in the lounge but it has four pulls and a double length T-Bar, a decent choice on three of the pulls, Batemans XXXB, Charnwood Salvation and Bass, the fourth was blank. A bar blockers paradise with stools ranged along the full length of the counter, banquette and tables with chairs down the two outer walls. There’s a bit of a 1930s art deco vibe to the decor, geometric shapes and in some of the furniture.