Stella Taps, Mansfield

The monicker may put some off, but Stella Taps is actually a very good micropub that doesn’t sell Stella, as far as I could tell. There’s some seating up the left-hand wall and a high table sits beside the right-hand wall adjacent to an L-shaped serving counter that continues towards the rear. The three hand pumps were drawing Empire Brewing’s The Dog’s Bollocks, Full Mash Brewery’s Rust Bucket and Lenton Lane Brewery’s Cloudburst, the latter being very good. There are also some keg fonts on the back bar that were pouring a couple of strong ciders alongside some craft beers. The low inoffensive background music didn’t detract from the convivial atmosphere generated by the eight or so locals present during a recent early Thursday evening visit. There is a large TV, but this is placed in the window with a desert island screensaver on loop, which I suppose is a better view that the road outside. For busier times there’s some overflow seating in a room at the rear, I didn’t look in to see if there was anything interesting to note. I thought the service was very friendly and this was my favourite venue of the evening.

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