The Turks Head, Exeter

The Turks Head is a long and thin pub with a wooden and tiled floor and traditional wood panelling around the walls. There are high table in the front and the serving counter is found mid-way up the right-hand wall. At the rear behind some glass is the in-house Turks Head Brewery, three of their beers were available on hand pump. This is a card only venue so I went for the ironically named Cash is King, and yes the barman must have heard it a million times before. There are actually six hand pumps, the friendly barman informed me that there was some work in progress hence the limited cask selection. This was still one of the busier pubs I visited during a recent Wednesday crawl around the city.

This is quite a good sized pub when you take into account the first floor and two side rooms on the ground and first floor. There was also a roof terrace for some alfresco drinking or dining as the pub serves food. The main features in here for me was the in house brewery positioned on the left of the main ground floor bar and the fabulous entrance with a timber gallery over the entrance. Five of their own beers on handpump Witches Brew Stout, Crusader session IPA, Barries Best Bitter, Cash is King Red Ale, Dinkum Aussie Pale Ale. We went for the stout which was excellent.