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The Hoptimist, Dover
Dover
CT16 1JH
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Quinno _ left this review about The Hoptimist
Upmarket and contemporary quasi-micro which smells of dogs. Grey, white and mint green interior with a nice selection of chunky wood seating and bar. Some rather feminine decor touches which may or may not appeal. Vaping allowed inside which again, may or may not appeal. There's an upright piano which hopefully gets a tinkling every now and again though on my Saturday afternoon visit it was decent piped music instead. To the rear is a small but nicely secluded rear patio. Four cask from a range of styles dispensed from a cold room with ales from Canterbury, Time & Tide, Kent, Tiny Rebel plus ciders (9) and some craftykeg. Both of my cask were fabulously kept, 2x NBSS 4 and came with friendly service. The ale quality demands a visit, best in show for central Dover and the pub is GBG listed as a consequence.
On 14th August 2024
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Hoptimist
Thankfully, the former Mash Tun has come back as the Hoptimist; still a micro-pub, but perhaps stretching things a bit with the background music? Anyway, it had a great atmosphere on a Sunday afternoon, and the welcome was friendly. The front section around the compact bar was full, but I managed to find a perch in the smaller rear part leading to the little patio seating area. With four cask ales being served by gravity, including the Bohemian Dark porter from Leatherbritches (£4.50) and eight interesting crafty keg beers available too, this was by far the best pub on my afternoon walk.
On 3rd March 2024
- rating: 8
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Lester Ford left this review about The Mash Tun
The 2017 GBG has 5 pubs in Dover listed with 3 of them being Micro pubs. At 12 noon sharp we started at the Mush Tun, which by my reckoning was the furthest from the football ground so the plan was to work our way up the High St.
Almost banging on the door to get in we were greeted by the husband and wife team both ex publicans who opened this micro a little over 3 years ago. According to them this used to be a bistro and judging by the size it seems to work a lot better as a micro.
Plenty of comfy seating are a mish mash of furniture still leave plenty of places to sit or stand. The bar is small with the ales in the cold room behind which is standard.
5 ales on and 13 ciders / perries, I had a pint of Hopdeamon’s Red @ 4.2%, my pal who’s a lager drinker had to make do with a bottle of Holsten, this was quite amusing.
Stopped for around 30 minutes chatting to the friendly couple before moving on to the ‘spoons.
A decent start to what turned out to be a very very long day.
On 23rd May 2017
- rating: 7
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- Accommodation : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes - Patio - last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Darts : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Function Room : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Micropub : Yes - Pushing the definition, frankly - last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 14 August 2024 by Quinno _
