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Beeropolis, Burton On Trent Town, Burton on Trent

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81 High Street
Burton on Trent
DE14 1LD

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Burton On Trent Town

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Strongers . left this review about Beeropolis

Beeropolis is a single room bare boarded micro with raised seating in the front windows and a serving counter on the right-hand wall that faces padded bench seating up the left. The counter supports a couple of hand pumps that were drawing Little Critters Brewery’s Luna’s Peach Ale and Sleepy Badger, the latter of which was an OK stout, not sure I’d order it again though. There are fonts across the back bar for pouring different styles of craft keg. I was the only customer and there was no music so I sat in silence as the friendly barman did his accounts, it was a bit depressing to be honest. The craft keg is the major draw here and it felt like the cask wasn’t really thought about, a peach brew and a stout aren’t great cask options when you only have two pumps. I’m not going to mark it down for being dead on a Wednesday evening, but I think I’ll leave this place to the craft brigade next time I’m in town.

On 15^th May 2025 - rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Beeropolis

Small micropub with a few tables and the bar and a fridge in the rear right-hand corner. A screen displays the range of beers, of which there were two on cask. There are also a number of ciders and a good selection of craft beers.

Of 4 handpulls, just 2 were clipped. The 2 real ales were Frome RA & Mr Grundy's Golden Dawn. Ciders listed on an A4 sheet behind the bar were Lilley's Mango Cider, Snail's Bank Rhubarb Cider, Weston's Old Rosie, Thistly Cross Whisky Cask & Heck's Farmhouse Perry. Craft beers were Thornbridge Jaipur, Triple Point Cryo First Chop WSTCST, Staggeringly Good Mr. DNA: Double Helix, Gweilo Rainbow Sherbet Sour, Brew York Papa Goose, Fierce/Vault City Bananas Foster, Castle Rock Oatmeal Stout, Beer Ink Dreamin' of Sugar Plums, Polly's Wither & Brew York/Overtone Winona Ryder.

The barman seemed a friendly chap and so did the gaffer who we met briefly. Customers on our Sunday lunchtime visit were all men and were all seemingly people knowledgeable about beers. Dogs and children are welcome.

This was the first ever pub I've visited in Burton. So, unlike the previous reviewers, I have nothing else in the town to compare it with. However, I was reasonably impressed. I'll be back to try some more pubs in the town soon.

On 11^th September 2023 - rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about Beeropolis

Blessed with a good central location, handy for the High Street and any number of other decent pubs, this is a simple, shop-converted micropub which was featuring Thornbridge beers on my visit. The usual single room set-up prevails, with scuffed floorboards throughout and walls painted in a pleasant shade to create a smart overall look. A small, raised space under the front window looked like it might double as a stage at some point, but was currently occupied by a couple of tables and chairs and a long pew, whilst the window had been draped with loads of fairy lights to allow for a degree of privacy during the hours of darkness. Elsewhere, pew and low stool seating runs down either side of the room, serving a mix of standard and low copper topped tables. The servery is in the rear right corner and has a very short bar counter and plain bar back, with a TV screen to one side listing the full draught range. As with pretty much all pubs I visited around town, the walls are decorated with plenty of old black and white photos showing the town’s brewing history, and this contrasted nicely with a few arty prints here and there and a nice pub mirror on the back wall. The place was busy on a Friday evening, as I managed to bag the last seat in the house, and unlike the experience of previous reviewers, the lighting was nicely muted, creating quite a cosy atmosphere.
I’m not sure whether the pub has any permanent tie with the Thornbridge Brewery, but their beer dominated the bar, with Chiron, Sequoia, Jaipur and one other on cask and plenty more as part of the keg range. I gave the Sequoia a try and thought it was a tasty enough pint in decent condition, whilst the barman was nice and welcoming despite very nearly short-changed me before spotting that he’d made a mistake.
I thought this was a decent enough micropub, with friendly staff and pleasant enough environs, but it didn’t really stand out from the pack once I reflected on all the pubs I’d visited on this crawl and I would say it’s a decent enough addition for a crawl, but perhaps not a destination pub in itself.

On 5^th July 2023 - rating: 6
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