The Salopian Bar, Shrewsbury

This is a single room bar that primarily seems to be catering for younger drinkers. I wondered while I approached it if it was actually an original pub but apparently it is with a history of name changes. There are eight hand pumps with an interesting selection, Oakham Citra and Bishops Farewell, Gipsy Hill Southpaw, Roosters Yankee, Salopian Vortex & Oracle, Maypole Platinum Blond and Stonehouse Station Bitter. I went for the Maypole Platinum Blond which was in excellent nick. It was £3.20 discounted to £3.10 with the CAMRA discount. They do a happy hour as well as the CAMRA discount and it was interesting to note that during happy hour with the CAMRA discount Black Dragon cider is priced at £2.78. This is what I would expect to pay for it in a Spoons, possibly even less so it shows that ordinary pubs can compete if they put their mind to it. I liked this place despite being centuries older than their target audience. It is GBG 2015 listed.

Called in on Tuesday 13th of May it was a pleasure to get served by a nice Girl called Bethiny she was not on her phone and talked to me and my wife told us about the beers there was 8 hand pulls on I Had a very good pint of Salopian Oracle 4% very light would have stayed longer but was there only for a short time and plenty of pubs to see