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The Joiners Arms, Lincoln
Lincoln
LN1 1HU
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Joiners Arms
Traditional backstreet pub in an end-of-terrace position on a steep hill, with the main seating area being set three steps the compact bar. Eight handpumps, with Horncastle's Wicked Blonde and a pair from Fownd - Iron Duke (£1.90, half) and Keeper of Secrets - plus Lilley's Mango cider available.
On 16th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about The Joiners Arms
This is a more traditional locals’ backstreet boozer, opposite the defunct Burton Arms.
I went for the Fownd Iron Tusk which set me back a steep – for Lincoln – £1.90 a half and was good.
This is a decent boozer.
On 12th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Joiners Arms
This pub serves quality beers and ciders and has a varied selection of both. It was good to see a mild on handpump on our Pubs Galore Crawl and mentioned below the prices were very good. I'd like to visit this pub on a winters night with the fires lit. Another plus for me, was the fact that there was no music blaring.
On 11th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Joiners Arms
I’m glad we did this one coming down from the Victoria as the pub sits on a steep incline and, although I fully took the point of a fellow crawler that you are much more unlikely to kill yourself walking uphill, I personally still prefer to be descending on a crawl when gradients like the one the Joiners Arms sits on are involved.
Is it worth the effort to search this one out in the western back streets of Lincoln? Yes, it most definitely is.
A very traditional friendly back street local where you enter and climb a couple of steps into the main thin bar area with some high bar chairs and a flat screen tele on the far wall, in which is an entrance into a more public bar area housing a pool table, dart board and the toilets. The main lower room looks like it has had a post pandemic makeover in recent years and looks very different from the Feb 2020 google pictures and is now a very comfortable main saloon area with its fireplace comfortable chair and stool seating and for our visit decorated with some impressive carved pumpkin examples for the time of year.
Five of the seven handpumps were badged for our visit but with one reverse clipped, this left three ales alongside Lilly’s Mango Cider. The Ales were two from the birth child of the Weavers Real Ale House and Fownes Brewery amalgamation, Fownds Brewery (Keeper of Secrets Hoppy Pale Ale and Iron Tusk Mild) and Horncastle Wicked Blonde. I went for the mild and it was pleasant rather than spectacular but in good condition. What was a nice touch was that the price per pint was clearly displayed on the pump clips and all ales were either a very respectable £3.80 or £3.90.
As one of our party commented, a proper back street drinking pub with proper prices and well worth its current inclusion in the GBG.
On 6th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Joiners Arms
On the steep descent from the cathereral and castle ,this is a classic old school boozer with a friendly welcome and a lived in atmosphere.The interior is on two levels with at the higher side the bar a pool table and the loos while most of the seating is on the lower side,consisting of bench seating ,traditional tables and pooves.There is an upright piano,lots of bric a brac.
The ale selection on my trip was Horncastle Wicked Blonde,Fownds Keeper of Secrets and Iron Tusk (NBSS 3.5) with a Mango Cider also on handpump.Prices were very modest.
Worth sticking on a crawl list ,these small street corner pubs off the beaten track should be supported if at all possible,it was quiet on our Friday afternoon visit.Friendly and helpful guv'nor.
On 4th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Strongers . left this review about The Joiners Arms
The Joiners Arms was completely dead when I walked in early on a recent Thursday evening, so there was no atmosphere, in fact it felt a little awkward, like I’d just invaded someone’s living room. The raised parquet floor bar area is in the right-hand side of the pub with a counter that runs along the right wall. Limited standard keg was available and three of the seven hand pumps were in operation drawing Billericay Brewing’s Gold Sovereign alongside Brentwood Brewing’s Charlie’s in Charge and Monarch Mild. At the end of the bar some steps lead down to a rear area with a pool table and a funfair type shooting range, a first in a pub for me. The seating is in the left-hand side of the pub where two exposed brick fireplaces on the left wall give the game away that this used to be two very small rooms. What was the front room has a wooden floor where seating runs across the front windows. What would have been the rear room has a tiled floor and more seating. On the wall between the fireplaces is a piano. The uncomfortable atmosphere, dim lighting and smell of old farts mean that I don’t plan on revisiting any time soon.
On 10th May 2023
- rating: 4
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Joiners Arms
The Joiners Arms was my favourite pub of the day in Lincolnshire. It's a backstreet local boozer with a cosy lounge area, as you enter and a more basic drinking area with a pool table.
I was impressed by the variety of the real ales and ciders here and the place was quiet enough to enjoy a relaxing drink, with friendly service.
Real ales were Magpie Cherry Raven, Kelchner Hat-Trick, Britt Brewery Blonde & Parkway Beaky Blinder. The two ciders were Lilley's Mango Cider & SeaCider Bakewell Tart.
Certainly one of Lincoln's better pubs.
On 23rd September 2020
- rating: 8
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custodian 42 left this review about The Joiners Arms
As previously stated, this place is on two levels. Through the front door you find a room with a bar billiard table and a piano, both with tops on. Up a few steps to the bar on the right which had four hand pumps, the strongest of which was 5% ABV. The back room down the few steps again has a pool table, again with the top on. Not the worst place, I suppose, but not worth a return.
On 10th September 2019
- rating: 5
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Quinno _ left this review about The Joiners Arms
Had high hopes for this one, a terraced backstreet place a few minutes away from the throng of the city centre and GBG17 listed. Entered to find a pub that was either halfway through renovation (no signage though) or in a downward spiral of dilapidation. Split over two levels, with the upper bar having the football on and the larger, lower room with a completely naked floor stripped back to the concrete scree. A row of handpumps with just two on, Market Harborough Super Hop (good) and Milton (fine). Noted an unplayable bar billiards table. Despite it being full-swing festive season pubbing elsewhere in Lincoln, this place had one solitary customer and the atmosphere was…awkward. We drank-up quick and headed back to the B&B, bemoaning our final choice (we had earlier skipped the Cardinal because it looked too busy – oh the irony….).
On 17th December 2017
- rating: 5
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Joiners Arms
This pub occupies the last two cottage buildings in a terraced row and has a rear patio. The pub is Victorian and in undressed brick, with a black and white lower frontage around the main door. There are in fact two entrances and there are rounded sash windows on the upper floor.
The interior is on two levels, as the pub occupies two former buildings. We entered into the squarish bar area and you have to go up a few steps, under a large beam, to actually get to the serving bar. The decor is wood and white, with a white ceiling and patterned carpet. There is a small tiled fireplace (blocked) and a pool table and dart board. Mirrors, drawings and beer mats provide the interest on the walls. The immediate bar surround has a tiled floor and a wood panelled bar. Down a little passage there is a box room in the same decor with paintings on the walls (for sale?) and other pictures. There was a TV here with Epsom horse-racing. There was no music. The service was really friendly and just one other guy was in at out early visit.
Beer; usual taps stuff with Banks's Bitter, Brakspear Bitter, Wychwood Hobgoblin and a decent Vale Brewery's Red Kite on handpull
A nice little pub, friendly with good beer - definitely worth a visit.
On 20th June 2012
- no rating submitted
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