Ditto, Moulsham, Chelmsford

Ditto has kept its name, but it’s now a cocktail bar with open plan seating at the front and a left facing serving counter at the rear. Half of the, maybe, ten keg fonts were unused and the other were all off, so bottles were the only option. I asked if there was an issue or if they’d stopped selling draught, but I didn’t get a response. There was one other customer at the bar, and three women were taking selfies for their social pages, I’m not sure why you’d want to post pictures of yourself in an empty bar with no beer, very odd behaviour. This place is crap.

This is an unusual micropub, in that it specialises in craft beers. There are also real ciders and gins. The bar area is in a narrow area at the rear, whilst the front of the shop is more spacious with tables and a board displaying the beers. Service was from the bar, with a number of people crowded around the narrow passage leading to the toilet, making social distancing difficult. The craft beers were Six Degrees North Flemish Black, Cloudwater Pale Ale, Dovedale Stout, Thornbridge Jaipur, Beavertown Neck Oil & Gipsy Hill Hepcat. There were a number of German beers too. Ciders were Wise Owl The Sweet One, Colcombe House No. 6, Saxby's Strawberry Cider & Abrahall's Thundering Molly. A friendly place and certainly of interest if you enjoy craft beers. Social distancing or the lack of it was the only thing letting it down.