The Shaking Hand, Solihull

Need to hunt this down - located at the park end of a row of new build shops/supermarkets. Not on the main drag. A tiny micro pub, with a few seats inside and out. Good mixture of cask (four and very decent two sampled), keg (£6.40 for a Deya) and wide collection of tinnies and bottles (craft and german/belgium). Once again on my second lunchtime visit to a pub this week, I am the only customer in a 1 hour stay. People are going to talk. Certainly the most interesting place in Shirley where the other craft place is perm closed and the ancient and wonderfully historic coach houses are now sizzling or stone house abominations of what a pub should be.

Modern light and airy one room micropub that opened in March 2019, just in time for Covid, located in the Shirley Parkgate shopping centre. However they seem to have survived well and had a few in on this Saturday evening. The small bar has four hand pumps for cask and five keg taps for craft which I was told regularly rotate. Then fridges with a good collection of bottles and cans. There’s a lot of glass frontage here and I prefer micropubs without the distraction of TV screens. However it’s the locals that count and if it attracts them all well and good. But for sure this is a very good addition for ale choice in Shirley and I wish it well.

Official site of The Shaking Hand - theshakinghand.co.uk

Facebook page of The Shaking Hand - www.facebook.com

Official site of The Shaking Hand - theshakinghand.co.uk

Facebook page of The Shaking Hand - www.facebook.com

As stated below, an odd spot for a micropub but it works. A good choice of beers on when I called and the 2 we tried were excellent. Well worth a visit.