The Fox & Crown, Newark

The A-board outside the Fox & Crown says something along the lines of “If you’re looking for a pint of Doom Bar carrying on walking to the market”. On the edge of the U-shaped bar counter that comes out of the left-hand wall is a chalkboard that lists some craft keg that come in halves and ranges from £5 for a 10% beer to £11 for an 11% offering from Nerdbrewing. A bit strong for an all dayer so I was thankful to see two banks of five hand pumps that were drawing four offerings from Castle Rock Brewery alongside Ossett’s Voodoo, TRR’s Sonoma, Pentrich Brewing’s Invisible World and Bang the Elephant Brewing’s Custard Coloured Super Dream, which is a Blueberry and Lemon Trifle Pale Ale, FFS. Mexican Street food is available from the kitchen that has been taken over by Holy Moly, the smell was great and the burrito for £8.50 was tempting, but I overheard that there was a wait for food so I decided against it. The pub wasn’t busy, so I imagine the chef was just waiting for the oil to heat up. I thought it was OK in here, maybe a little pretentious, but worth a visit.

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Loved this Castle Rock pub which features in the 2018 Good Beer Guide for it's great selection of real ales. We enjoyed our Pentrich Killed by the Boom and Abstract Jungle Pride. Large open plan room with smaller ones off plus a beer garden. A great place to have as your local.

Doesn't look like much from the outside but inside is a great ale pub run by Castle Rock. The character is driven by a number of interconnecting semi-rooms which provide a nice set of discrete places to enjoy your pint, as well as a clientele base of affable drinkers. There’s a room at the rear with a tuned acoustic guitar (presumably for playing if you feel the urge?) and board games. Noted that there is a free cheese board available on Mondays. 10 pumps at the bar with a good set of Castle Rock brews along with some guests including Tiny Rebel, as well as 70+ bottles and cans in the fridge. My Castle Rock Mocha Stout was in very good shape. I really liked this place and would be more than happy to take it in over a longer session. 8.5

The Fox & Crown is a standard looking town pub that is set in a terrace. Once inside the main room to the left is a decent size which has a part tiled and bare boarded floor,the seating is bench type and small stools,there are two smaller rooms to the right and another are to the rear which has normal tables and chairs. This is a Castle Rock tied house,so there was a good choice of real ales on the bar,we had a drink of Harvest Pale which went down very well,the other beers noted were Elsie Mo,Screeching Owl,Preservation all from Castle Rock,there were some guest beers but i could not note all because of people stood at the bar,i did note Abbeydale Hop Smash and one from Oakham. We thought this was a very pleasant pub to have a drink in. Pub visited 6/8/2016