Morning Star, Lincoln

The Morning Star is a locals boozer where the entrance opens straight onto the L-shaped bar counter that supports standard and premium keg alongside six hand pumps that were drawing Sharp’s Doom Bar, At Austell’s Proper Job, TT Boltmaker, Milestone’s Shine On, Brew York’s Calmer Chameleon and Welbeck’s Red Feathers. The seating to the left, right and rear was fairly busy during my recent Thursday evening visit. The air was full of friendly chatter, no music or televisions. The service was polite and I liked it in here so I’d return without fuss.

A proper locals local. The bar is straight in front of you as you enter with seating areas to the left and right. A fairly pedestrian range of beers on the 6 handpumps, but my pint was in good nick. Full description of the inside by Soup Dragon below.

A straightforward locals place. The main room runs alongside the bar and there is a small snug/back bar as well. Mint green walls, quarry tile flooring and pictures of old Lincoln on the walls. Six pumps all on, a pretty safe national selection in Sharps Doom Bar, Wells Bombardier, GK Ruddles, Exmoor Christmas, Jennings Cumberland and Timothy Taylor Golden Best (fine). Mature local clientele. It was a decent little place, though perhaps I’d been spoilt by accidentally doing what turned out to be the best two pubs in the city one after the other at the crawl’s start. 7.5

Another great local pub, a one roomer with 5 national beers including a sublime Bass. Not exciting to beer nerds but a fine pub nonetheless.

When i first went in the Morning Star it was a Manns tied house with some pretty dire beer on the bar. This is another Lincoln pub that me and the wife visit every time we come to Lincoln. Once inside there is a main bar room which runs the width of the pub,the serving bar is to the right,the seating is bench type and normal tables and chairs,there was a nice real fire roaring away to the left. There is a smaller lounge to the rear right which is square shaped,the seating in this room is comfy bench type and small stools,we had a few drinks in this room on our recent visit. There were four real ales on the bar,we had a couple of drinks of Taylor Golden Best which went down a treat in a really nice pub,the other beers were Bass,Black Sheep bitter and Moorhouse Ice Witch. Decent hot food is available,we had cheese and ham toasties which were very nice,cobs were also on the bar,sky tv was showing football score updates. There was a good mix of customers in. All in all a great pub,one we could have stayed in all night. Pub first visited 26/3/1983 Recent visit 6/12/2014