Olde Royal Oak, Burton On Trent Town, Burton on Trent

The rear of the pub dates back to around 1640 when it was just the Royal Oak and today is the tap house for Fownes Brewing Co, with their barley legible name to the pump clips. I went for their The Elephant Riders and found it to be in great nick. This is a good pub and I too agree that it’s better than the Dog across the square, with its shrieking baby.

A slightly peculiar old pub on the old marketplace, with a decor combining bits from many different decades over the ages, a welcome change from the typical corporate makeover. The beers from the Fownes brewery were good too.

Clearly an old pub and you can feel that once inside, B F describes the layout below along with the beers, I had a couple in here as the main group of crawlers reassembled, both the Elephant Riders and Holy Roller were in fine fettle. I liked this pub more so than the Dog down the road.

Brewery tap for Fownes Brewing,this traditional pub is to one side of the large Market Place.Inside there are two front sections either side of the front door with banquette seating and a log burner to the right.The bar is to the left ,the pub extends to a mid section with dining type tables.The interior is pleasing but without noteable heritage features. .The barmaid was chatty and friendly and also works at The Dog very close by and so a great double header for ale lovers. On my trip the Fownes ales on offer were Royal Oak Bitter,Elephant Riders,King Korvaks Saga (NBSS 4.5),Troll Brewer,Frost Hammer and Holy Roller. One not to miss on any real ale crawl around town.