Deacons, Salisbury

Seems to have gone down market, never a salubrious looking pub the clientele now seems to match. Most were drinking macro lager so I was unsurprised at the lacklustre quality of the cask beers. Pool, darts and telly footy are the order of the day here now. A sad loss of one of Salisbury's better pubs.

Unremarkable looking frontage to the pub,but once inside you find a quite vibrant locals pub with all the atmosphere you would expect from such a place, something that cannot be manufactured. Three beers on and my Hopback GFB was in fine fettle.This pubs right up my street, I will return.

A well known and lauded Salisbury pub, handy for the station. Two rooms, a very small front room with the bar in a corner, larger back room up a couple of steps. Blue banded windows which I also saw at The Five Bells, not sure if they represent an old brewery livery, stone jars and jugs on a shelf, sporting apparel plus a life buoy hang from the back bar ceiling. Bank notes pinned behind the bar, other décor included horse racing photos, maps, pictures of the cathedral, a row of Guinness advertisements and a Salisbury City shirt in a case which was signed by just two players, oh well. There is a TV but this was off. Beer wise, the same as others have listed, Doom Bar, two from Hop Back, GFB and Summer Lightning. I have to concede that I struggle to understand the pub's semi-iconic status, I found it distinctly average and rather tatty. The newish exterior signage is rather garish, non pubby and from a distance has the appearance of a branch of Barclays Bank. It's worth a punt, certainly before or straight after a train, but it really isn't the destination pub some regard it to be.