The Grapes, Oxford

First time to visit since this former Bath Ales outlet became Beerd Oxford. Internally, décor wise not a lot has changed, except for losing the former posters, which makes the place even more rustic as stated by others below. The beer offering has changed though with eight cask pumps and now a bank of ten cask fonts central on the bar. Five ales on the eight pumps and the Wild Weather Red IPA I went for was actually quite decent. Good service levels, especially as the barman offered to fill up my water bottle that had taken a hammering on the walk up the river from Iffley. Overall I felt this place was falling between two stalls. It had lost a bit of the traditional pub feel it had as the Grapes but didn’t really cut the mustard for me as a cutting edge Craft and Cask bar and the craft offerings all looked a bit mainstream to me. However still infinitely better than its original Greek King guise and worth a visit when in town.

Modern interior with a rough cut cabin feel,decent range of beers and my choice of beerd Cubic,though not quite to my taste was decent enough but I agree with Tris below that maybe a little on the warm side. An interesting bar with some promise and worth another look sometime.