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Poets Ale & Smoke House, Hove

33 Montgomery Street
Aldrington
Postal town: Hove
BN3 5BF

Phone: 01273272212

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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Poets Ale & Smoke House

Tucked away in a residential street, this very attractive Harvey's corner pub has some fine detailing on both elevations and retains two bars with back-to-back serveries in the middle. While the main lounge has been refurbished in a slightly Bohemian style, the smaller public bar has a traditional dark-wood interior. There are also several black-painted wooden booths out front and a part-covered yard beer garden to the rear. Sussex Best, Old Ale (£5.90) and Armada Ale available from the various handpumps on both counters. Pleasant atmosphere early on a Saturday lunchtime, so I enjoyed my brief stop here.

On 11^th May 2025 - rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Poets Ale & Smoke House

A trip to Sussex isn't really a trip to Sussex without visiting a Harvey's. This corner pub in a residential area can be found in the Good Beer Guide. Unsurprisingly, Sussex Best Bitter is the regular beer. In addition, they also had their Old Ale & Armada Ale. Keg options were Harvey's Wharf IPA & Pells Pale & Beavertown Neck Oil. There was no real cider that I could see.

Basic pub grub is served. Wednesday is 2 for 1 on wings. So, we had 4 portions between us to keep us going for the final run-in of our crawl.

There are a couple of rooms and I thought it was quite a nice atmosphere in here with friendly bar staff and some fairly inobtrusive music playing.

On 6^th February 2025 - rating: 6
[User has posted 3111 recommendations about 3109 pubs]

Moby Duck left this review about Poets Ale & Smoke House

A fairly large corner pub, it's two roomed, a larger public bar with a couple of TV's and a smaller, quieter saloon bar, there is a small sun trap beer garden to the rear. There are ten handpumps in all across the two bars but not all it seems are in use nowadays, three beers were on which were Harveys Olympiad, Armada and Sussex Best.
A pleasant pub.

On 24^th June 2024 - rating: 7
[User has posted 2183 recommendations about 2150 pubs]

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