Paget Arms, Loughborough

Great Steamin Billy pub with the usual array of beers from the said brewery. I tackled a Tipsy Fisherman, which was excellent. Well worth a visit if you are in Loughborough, despite its out of the way location.

This is a pub I was advised to leave out by someone who knows the area and I was glad I ignored the warning. It's a classic Midlands red-brick corner pub in the back-streets outside the centre of town. I opted for the smaller bar on the right which was originally the public bar. It was wooden-floored as the pub seemed to be throughout and at the rear of it a darts area. There was a patio that I didn't take too much notice of and a TV screen that thankfully had no sound and was showing Catchphrase with subtitles, a vast improvement and far more intellectually challenging than the stupid football match being shown in the previous pub. There appeared to be five beers on offer, Steamin' Billy Bitter, Tipsy Fisherman & 1485, Abbeydale Moonshine and Everard's Tiger. The public bar had three handpumps displaying the three Steamin' Billy beers but my 1845 (£3.30) was served from the saloon bar. It was in excellent nick but not a patch on the Blue Monkey beers in the Organ Grinder. It's a good traditional pub that is well worth the visit and I would return to try another Steamin' Billy beer.