The Woodman, Battersea High Street, SW11

Official site of The Woodman - www.woodman-battersea.co.uk

Official site of The Woodman - www.woodman-battersea.co.uk

Amazing this traditional pub has not been reviewed for over 13 years. It is a very long rectangular pub with an island bar on the front maybe third of the venue. Tables and chairs v busy with early evening drinkers occupy the area around the bar. Behind are further tables and chairs for diners and there is a small, partly covered beer garden out the back. A quiz was about to start on my visit and so that might explain how busy the pub was on my visit. the venue was decked out with flag of the competing nations in the Euro’s. Beer wise this remains a Badger Brewery outlet with three of the four hand pumps offering the Tanglefoot, Best and Fursty Ferret with colourful hand clips. They also had an array of their bottled beers for show on the bar. The keg choices were Guinness, Henry Weston’s vintage cider, their own West Coast IPA, Peach lager and straight lager, and Hazy IPA under the Outland brand, Cruzcampo, Moretti, Amstel and another cider from Thatcher’s. I thought this was an above average pleasant traditional pub. I would suggest if you try it worth making that Wed onwards on the week as a couple of times I have tried to visit this place earlier in the week it has been unexpectedly closed.