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The Queens Head Inn, Hinckley
Hinckley
LE10 1RJ
Served areas
Reviews of The Queens Head Inn (Average Rating: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Queens Head Inn
The Queen's Head was certainly one of the highlights of our visit to Hinckley. Whilst the Elbow Room and the Pestle & Mortar offered the best beer and cider selections respectively, the Queen's Head has the finest interior of the pubs we visited.
The entranceway has some lovely tiling and a large Tetley's lamp. There are rooms off to the left and right, both with open coal fires and wallpaper. The one to the left was lit, but not the one on the right. The entranceway gives way to a corridor as you move past the bar with successive rooms on gradually increasing levels up to another corridor containing the toilets.
On the bar were complimentary cheese and pickles for New Year's Eve. Draught Bass is the regular cask ale. Guests were Abbeydale Winter & Doctor Morton's Proper Gander & Pennine Amber Necker. Beavertown Neck Oil was on keg. The cider was Carling Black Fruit. There was a TV above the bar, which slightly spoiled the decor.
Deservedly featured in the Good Beer Guide, this is a lovely example of a Victorian pub.
On 1st January 2025
- rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Queens Head Inn
Very attractive old pub, perhaps altered to some extent but retaining plenty of charm in the multi-room layout. The main bar at the front lies to the left of the entrance corridor, with a smaller lounge on the other side and two further seating / dining areas further back behind the servery. Plenty of interesting features remain, complemented by various items of breweriana and local history photographs. Three of four handpumps in use, dispensing the regular Bass plus Elsie Mo from Castle Rock and Oakham's Mandarina Bavaria. Theakston's Smooth Dark also noted among the various keg options.
On 21st September 2019
- rating: 8
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Aqualung . left this review about The Queens Head Inn
This one was a big disappointment for me after some glowing reviews below and being highly recommended by CAMRA. It's an old building but it's all been knocked through, hardly original. There is a bar area as you enter with another area to the right and two further areas behind the bar. I didn't see a pool table. I got here just after midday on a Saturday so it was quiet. Their was a radio playing Smooth Radio which was just as stomach churning as the John Smith's Smooth crap that it may or may not be named after.
The four hand pumps had a boring mainstream choice of London Pride, St Austell Tribute, Bass and Castle Rock Harvest Pale. Nothing Locale and nothing of interest. I went for the Castle Rock beer which was in good nick but even with the 20p CAMRA discount came to £3.30 which is considerably dearer than most of their own houses.
CAMRA on What Pub claim that this is a 15 minute walk from the Railway Station. Did Mo Farah write that bit? I got a bus the couple of stops from the JDW which may well be fifteen minutes from the station.
I wouldn't return here but give it a lenient 6.
On 14th August 2017
- rating: 6
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 20p per pint, 10p per half - last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 12 August 2017 by Aqualung .
- Pool Table : No last updated 12 August 2017 by Aqualung .
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : No last updated 28 February 2017 by ROB Camra
