bod, Newport

A Titanic cafe/pub house in a former bank and so a little dull from the outside. It has a couple of patio areas. Inside there are a couple of floors, modern furnishings. The very mixed clientele were either drinking pop and tea serviced with cakes and sausage rolls, or the ales. Service was good and there were four ales on with keg options. The Plum Porter was sublime.

Another modern café / bar from Titanic Brewery with a light, two-part interior, a small mezzanine along the front, a terrace to one side and a patio beer garden at the back. With five of the six handpumps in use, I found Iceberg, Steerage, Plum Porter and Rye IPA plus New Brew's NPA as a guest (£3.70). Also has a row of craft keg taps on the bar-back.

Another nicely done conversion by Titanic, very similar in feel to their Bod in Matlock that I went to recently, though the buildings are totally dissimilar. The bar has the same two groups of three hand pumps, but though there were three Titanic beers as usual, there was only the one local beer, from New Brew less than a mile away. Their NPA (Newport Pale Ale) was in good condition, though not memorable. Service here was friendly, but these Bods, or are we supposed to say bods, are not very pub-like in my opinion. In fact I very nearly asked for a coffee.