The Brewers Arms, Berwick-Upon-Tweed

The Brewers Arms is a Belhaven pub with and interesting curved glass frontage and mosaic floored entrance. The carpeted interior is long and thin with seating in the front and a serving counter edged with floor tiles part-way up the right-hand wall. Standard keg was available alongside Peroni from the friendly bar staff, and the two hand pumps were drawing TT Landlord and Caledonian’s Deuchars. Beyond the counter towards the rear there is more seating, including some booths up the left-hand wall that face two pool tables, a dartboard and a small child’s table tennis table. During my Thursday lunchtime visit the televisions located throughout were all off and there was some background music playing. This isn’t somewhere that I’d go out of my way to revisit, but it was friendly and a lot cheaper than the other places I visited in Berwick.

Yes a very impressive entrance with a mosaic proclaiming ownership by Bernards of Edinburgh. There’s been an attempt at respecting the old architecture in the front 30 feet, art nouveau anaglypta, repro fireplace, old looking furniture, let down a bit by the pallet wood and dodgy artwork. Further back it goes to pot, apart from the rather good bar back, it has had a standard town centre pub treatment inflicted upon it. The bar back obviously started life elsewhere and has been drastically shortened to fit here. A couple of T-Bars and two hand pumps giving a no surprises beer choice, the cask beers being Landlord and Deuchars, how do these cheap and nasty Scottish beers get that old ashtray taste? Looking at you Belhaven as well. Toilets upstairs accessed via a door at the front entrance.