The Old Ale House, Truro

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The Old Ale House has a serving counter up the left-hand wall, barrel tables with high stools up the centre and thick wooden tables up the right-hand wall. Either side of the front entrance are snuggy seating areas and there’s a barrel full of monkey nuts, the husks of which were all over the floor mixed in with some sawdust. I thought this was just a Halloween thing, but looking at Quinno’s review it would seem not. Fairly lights run across the ceiling where there are, what seemed like, hundreds of old pumps clips. I didn’t visit upstairs, but I did note the advertisement for pool, darts and a function room.
Premium keg products line the bar where ten hand pumps also sit. The cask options were Bass Kerr’s Borderer, Bluntrock Brewery’s Gold, London Pride, Dynamite Valley Brewing’s Black Charge, Atlantic Brewery’s Sun Dancer, Tintagel Brewery’s Sir Lancelot, Firebrand Brewing’s West Coast Session IPA and a couple of Cornish Craft Ciders. The back bar is also lined with taps for the craft keg. I went for a pint of Pride, first in a while, and sat at one of the barrels with a pile of monkey nuts. It was comfortably busy, my visit being an hour or so before the weekly Wednesday quiz kicked off. This is a decent pub that I’ll be sure to revisit when next in town.

On 30^th October 2024 - rating: 9
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