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Four Candles, Broadstairs

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1 Sowell Street
St. Peters
Postal town: Broadstairs
CT10 2AT

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Quinno _ left this review about Four Candles

Looks like a full-sized pub on approach but it actually operates as a micro within and a genuine old skool one at that, with no telly or music. The single small room is ‘pubby’ in feel with two-step wainscoting and beer being fetched via a serving hatch – you also need to go through said hatch in order to access the facilities which I found mildly unnerving. Dogs everywhere which creates a bit of a trip hazard for the unwary. Three cask off stillage labelled as Four Candles (which is apparently a microbrewery in the cellar under the front room!) plus a couple of ciders. My Bitter was good for stillage (NBSS 3.5) so decided to test drive the others - the Citra and Session Pale were both in excellent shape (NBSS 4) so a good decision. An engaging landlady set the tone for a lovely crowd of friendly local punters and it was easy to be sucked in, I started to find the place rather magical despite the ghost of Lynn Faulds Wood. Oddly, it isn't GBG24 listed - quite the omission, I think.

On 24^th June 2024 - rating: 9
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Pub SignMan left this review about Four Candles

This is a very small micro pub in the backstreets between Broadstairs and St Peters, making use of what appears to have once been a corner shop premises. The compact room is bare boarded and has a couple of high shelf-like tables through the centre and a long ledge around much of the perimeter. Tongue and groove panelled walls give the place a bit of a proper pub-feel, with one dominated by the beer board and the other liberally covered with framed cartoons, many of which seemed to have a local theme, possibly drawn by local artists, with some available to buy in postcard format. A shelving unit to the right was well stocked with old Good Beer Guides, board games, various bits of glassware and plenty of candle holders as well as a photograph of four candles. Further study reveals numerous fork handles dotted around the room in a nod to the famous Two Ronnies sketch from which the pub takes its name. There is no servery – just a tap room through a door to the rear left, with the landlady bringing the beer out to customers at their tables, which is always a nice touch in my book.
The pub has its own in-house brewery and three of their cask ales were available – Four Candles Double Hopburst, Archers and Garden Green Hop – alongside a couple of real ciders. The Double Hopburst was a reasonable £3.20 a pint and turned out to be a decent drop. There was a good band of jovial locals in who were happy to chat and recommend other local pubs to us, which made the place feel very welcoming to a couple of new faces like ourselves.
It was this warm welcome that left the lasting impression on me, as this is a fairly basic, small micropub which might easily have been forgotten were it not for the locals and landlady. This, combined with the unusual feature of a home-brewed beer range, made this place stand out from the pack and we both ended up enjoying our time here.

On 24^th March 2020 - rating: 8
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Aqualung . left this review about The Four Candles Alehouse

This is one of the smaller micropubs set in what looks like a former corner shop. The small amount of furniture is all of the tall variety. It's a proper micropub with no TV, music or speciality spirits. By coincidence I got chatting to a bloke who once lived in Walthamstow and Clapton.
This is one that brews their own beer so the three beer options were Four Candles Green Hop Pale, Green Hop Rye & East Kent Bitter. I went for the Green Hop Rye (£3.40) which was excellent. There were three Biddendon Cider options one of which was an alarming 8% abv.
I preferred the more quirky Yard Of Ale but you wouldn't want to miss this one.

On 26^th October 2018 - rating: 9
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