The Tap House, Kidderminster

Ex station house - long and thin, with a nice patio area on the opposite side of the access road. Always a number of guests to their own brews. Boringly I went for Butty Bach, which was in exceptional condition. £4.20. Popular with lunch time (mainly pensioner) diners.

The tap for Hartlebury Brewery which is next door, both are in ex-railway buildings which is convenient for trains on the Worcester to Birmingham line, one per hour stop here. It’s the old station so it’s long and thin retaining some of the old dividing walls in stripped brick, the brick and wood servery is between the two furthest left rooms, pulls and taps to the left. There are two banks of four pulls with a selection of their own beers and local guests from Holdens and Wye Valley. Furnished traditionally with a mix of upholstered settles and taller tables with stools, with shorter tables and chairs to the extreme left. Decor as expected of railway porn but not exclusively, there’s a great deal of honey coloured wood been used. The far right end is a restaurant and there’s a shelter and marquee opposite the main building. The bit between the bar and restaurant is labelled The Waiting Room and has the toilet access, the restaurant is the Dining Carriage.