The White Hart, Aldeburgh

This is another good Adnams pub in Aldeburgh, this one at the far end of the High Street. Internally one traditional wood panelled room with a fair amount of nautical Memorabilia dotted about and a very impressive fireplace, which I guess makes this a cosy pub in winter but was not called upon on a fine weather day in June. 4 hand pumps on the bar with Adnams ales, and what I liked about this one was that they had the cask version of Adnams Mosaic, as the keg version tends to dominate nowadays.

Yep - this looked like the locals pub. Opens at middday at the moment - and the experienced parties divide their manpower - leaving someone guarding the table in the beer garden, whilst someone queues for the bar to open and the other queues for the chipper to open. They allow you to bring takeaways in the garden. Whilst all this happens - a local elderly gent, ignores all the queues, marches straight to the bar on opening and gets given his half without even asking. Love it. Regulars need looking after :-) Broadside, Ghost Ship and Adnams Bitter. The broadside was perfectly kept but served without head or glass lacings. Maybe this is how the cockneys like their beer.

Great Adnams pub with a local feel as opposed to some of the other pubs in town that have sold out to the tourist trade. A single wood panelled room with a large bar greets as you walk in the front door. To the right is a roaring coal fire, to the left the toilets. The floor is wooden boards and the furniture is random, sea faring memorabilia adorns the walls, most of it a local nature and not the contrived stuff that you get in places like Wetherspoons. The beer in the Hart was on top form, we sampled Mosaic, Bitter, Ghost Ship and Old Ale. decent banter from the bar staff and the locals made the Hart a great place to kill a couple of hours. Next to the pub is the best fish and chip shop in town and the pub has no problem with people using their back yard seating to eat chips as long as you buy a drink from the pub.