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The Watchmakers Arms, Hove

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84 Goldstone Villas
Hove
BN3 3RU

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Will Larter left this review about The Watchmakers Arms

This popular micro has an A-board on the pavement celebrating its selection as the local CAMRA branch's pub of the year. Opening at midday six days a week (closed Mondays) it also closes for the afternoon lull between 2 and 5 on the next three days. I arrived at 4:45 on a Tuesday so had a little time to kill, returning just as the owner was putting out the tables and chairs on the pavement. He returned quickly behind the bar and asked what he could get me, and I suddenly realised there was a queue behind me. Returning from the bar with my Bezel Bitter from the brewery on the premises, I noticed that several tables had been reserved, two of them for 5pm! When I left for my train at 5:20 there were a dozen customers, at least one of whom was on his second drink. I seem to have used up all the space, so please see the two previous reviews for a better description of this very good pub.

On 5^th August 2025 - rating: 8
[User has posted 4400 recommendations about 4043 pubs]

Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Watchmakers Arms

In some ways a stereotypical micro-pub, but in other ways not as it has its own micro-brewery attached somewhere at the back. Anyway, it looks and feels right, and you get a very friendly welcome, so it's easy to understand why this is a regular local Camra award winner. I found seven cask ales available, served by gravity from a small cool room behind the titchy counter, including their own TWA '///shins.former.mild' (from what3words) Mild (£4.60), and four craft keg beers from taps on the bar-back.

On 11^th May 2025 - rating: 8
[User has posted 8813 recommendations about 8813 pubs]

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Strongers . left this review about The Watchmakers Arms

Opening daily at midday I had a few minute wait for the doors to open on Saturday just gone. This is a well-to-do area, and it was a the best day of the year for the weather, so I didn’t mind a bit of people watching. The Watchmakers Arms is a laminate floored single room shop converted micro with a front bay window and high benches up the side walls that face high tables and stools. Hops and a bit of ivy hang from the ceiling and there’s pub and watch ephemera on the walls, the décor has been done well. The short serving counter sits in the right rear corner in front of a glass doored temperature controlled ‘cellar’ which houses gravity fed casks. The five available local cask beers were Downlands Lost Weekend and Lucid Dream, Gun Brewery’s Chummy Bluster, Long Man’s Long Blonde and Only With Love Brewery’s Champion. I went for the Lost Weekend which was an OK stout. There were also a couple of craft keg options, but this place is really about the ale. Having just opened I was the only customer for the duration of my stay, but a couple of the tables had been reserved for early afternoon. The polite welcome and location by Hove Railway Station means that I’ll certainly be visiting again at some point.

On 3^rd April 2024 - rating: 8
[User has posted 6169 recommendations about 6132 pubs]

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