The Organ Grinder, Nottingham

This place was my main reason for coming to Nottingham but I had been so impressed by the previous five pubs that it had a lot to live up to. It's an original pub called the Red Lion as can be seen from the earliest picture but the fact that it's a terraced pub makes it look a bit like a shop conversion. It was my final stop of the Canning Circus group of four pubs. Inside it's a single room with the bar on the right and wooden floorboards. It was relatively quiet on my late Saturday afternoon visit. The bar has nine hand pumps which on my visit had seven Blue Monkey beers, Grain Oak and Doom Bore. I tried three Blue Monkey beers, Marmalape (£3.15), Infinity (£3.15) and Chocolate Guerilla (£3.40). All three were in great condition although I wasn't that impressed with the possibly experimental Marmalape which isn't even mentioned on their website. There were also two ciders and a perry at the blanket price of £3.60 despite the perry being a full 3% higher ABV than the ciders. It's a pub that shouldn't be missed but somehow I didn't find quite as good as the Loughborough one and I'm not sure exactly why. It is GBG 2015 listed.

ok boozer called in had a couple of pints of Bg Tips dont no weather its the Organ Grinder or the Blue Monkey