White Hart Inn, Ulverston

Will Larter left this review about White Hart Inn

My second visit here, the first being in about 1979 or 1980, a brief camping trip with my bike. The camp site then is the car park now, if I remember aright. On this occasion I camped at the Black Beck Farm site, half a mile from the village and called in here after having walked to the Manor House at Oxen Park and back. It was twilight when I arrived, and a strong smell of cooking fat was escaping from the kitchen windows polluting the village. It was a lively Saturday night, but not uproarious.

There were three beers on the bar here (see photo), two of them blonde and the other a bitter. I had a pint of the latter, which was in good condition (NBSS 3 or 3.5) but after a bit I became a little bored with it, as it was hardly bitter at all. (It might be thought that perhaps my taste buds had become tired, but after leaving the pub I returned to my tent and had a bottled beer with a late snack, and I could taste every single hop in that beer.) I asked the lass behind the bar about the origins of the beer, and she was very helpful and told me they get all their drinks from Lancaster Wine Co, but she didn't know who brewed this beer, which seemed to be called Lakeland Beer Bitter. A bit of investigation online and through contacts at Camra narrowed it down to Theakstons, of all people, who have apparently brewed a few of these anonymous beers for LWC (which is an arm of Dorbiere, an up and coming pub company), though it has also been suggested that this is not one of them. (Watch this space!)

While I was trying to get some answers online, a couple of drinkers came in and had one each of the two blonde beers, Bowland Boxer and Wainwright Gold, which did look good, when I cast frequent envious glances in the direction of their glasses. This is a pretty decent pub, but they need to get proper extraction and filtration systems for their kitchen.

On 25^th September 2024 - rating: 7
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