Rusty Bucket, Eltham, SE9

Visited 06/05/26. Visited previously 15/07/19. Cask offering of the Rising Giant APA and the Copper Hop Amber bitter both from Long Man and the Scarecrow IPA from Pig & Porter. Extensive craft keg offering from the taps on the white tiled wall behind the bar counter. The offering on my visit was Helles from Lost and Grounded, Guinness, Lumina from Siren, the Paulaner Weissbier, Psych! the IPA from Verdant, the Settle Down NZ pilsner from Two Flints, the blood orange sour from Orbit, the You Win! NEIPA from Pressure Drop, the Kernel Brown Ale, the Parade IPA from Beak, the Burrow Porter from Villages, the Larkin pale from Bearwood, the Little Fog pale from Rivington, the Aura tropical mango from Yonder, the Hum pale also from Beak, the Long Hoth Summer imperial stout also from Bearwood, the Tidal Pale from Northdown and the Red Fin cider. There were a couple of still ciders from Ascension and one from Charrington's. Notable micro pub, some tables on the pavement out front and inside bare boarded with the bar counter in the rear left-hand corner. Regular tables served by small stools in front of the bar counter and along the front windows to the right of the corner entrance. There is a wooden banquette along the front middle part of the right-hand wall with a single tall table served by tall unbacked stools in the rear right-hand corner looked over by strings of warm white fairy lights on the ceiling. There is a tall beer fridge to the right-hand end of the bar counter and another at right angles to it. No screens and a very low level and tranquil backing soundtrack during my visit. Cracking venue for enthusiasts of decent cask and craft beer.

Eltham's Rusty Bucket is a keg-focused micropub, with the 3 cask (Harvey's Sussex, Three Legs Offa & Iron Pier Ernest) vastly outnumbered by keg delights from Beak, Kernel, Floc and more. The ales come from the cool room as usual, so don't present well, but are perfectly fine. Food consists of sausage rolls & scotch eggs. As you'd expect with this sort of place, staff and customers are friendly to a fault and I was glad to spend some time here.

Official site of Rusty Bucket - www.therustybucket.pub

Official site of Rusty Bucket - www.therustybucket.pub

Facebook page of Rusty Bucket - www.facebook.com

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