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The Stanton Cask, Ilkeston

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162 Bath Street
Ilkeston
DE7 8FH

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Ilkeston Town

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Old Boots left this review about The Stanton Cask

An impressive brick built corner building, the pub itself is a single room possibly a shop conversion, it’s very fancy brickwork and it may have been a pub in the days when one of Ilkeston’s railway stations was next door. It has bench seating down two and a half sides, a few tables are empty casks and a couple are metal based tables with low stools. The counter is to the rear left and houses four handpumps serving small brewery’s beers, mostly local to Nottinghamshire and one from further away (Middlesbrough), there are two solos on the counter, one from Blue Monkey. Five Molson Coors national keg lagers are located on the back wall with a neon sign saying lager three times – apparently the locals missed the fact the keg taps were there. Big screen showing 80s music videos but also used for sport and there’s a dart board. Big pictures of the former local Stanton Iron works as decor. The ladies and gents are up a short corridor at the right hand side of the counter.

On 9^th March 2024 - no rating submitted
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Stanton Cask

Simple street corner micropub a short way to the North of the town centre, which looks pretty good on approach, thanks to the unusual curved frontage of the street corner premises it occupies. Large modern etched glass windows to the front sport an image of a dray horse and cart and ensure a bit of privacy from passers-by. Inside, it’s a basic, bare boarded room with the servery to the rear and a long, comfy banquette down the right-hand wall. Some of the tables are made from upturned barrels with a larger circular top affixed, and elsewhere low stools serve similar tables whilst an uncomfortable looking low banquette rounds out the seating options under the front windows, although given the amount of condensation on the windows, you’d need to be very careful to ensure you didn’t lean backwards and get a soaking if sat here. The whole pub has been decorated with copious amounts of pump clips plus a few other beer themed bits and bobs which help add some colour to the place. The servery has a plain, squat counter and featureless bar back, again decorated with loads of pump clips and a fancy looking clock.
The main draw of such a pub has to be the ale range, which I thought was pretty strong here. Options on this visit comprised Nene Valley Egyptian Cream and Simple Pleasures, Grainstore Zahara and Blue Monkey Best Bitter. My pint of Zahara was in good nick, but the barman was a pretty surly fellow who seemed to be very wary of a new face in his pub and with only one other customer in when I arrived, there was a strange, tense atmosphere where I didn’t feel particularly welcome.
I enjoyed my beer here but didn’t think there was too much else to distinguish this place from the sort of micropub you can find up and down the country. The service will remain my abiding memory of this place and would probably put me off from bothering again, as there are plenty of other decent pubs in town that did seem happy to host me, although I understand the pub ha changed name and is under new management since I visited, so maybe I'd give it another shot in it's new guise.

On 8^th September 2023 - rating: 6
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Al Bundy left this review about Ilson Tap

A smashing little micro. Situated on a corner this small single roomed pub is at the bottom of a hill. 5 handpulls dispensing 3 Aurora beers, a Scarborough beer and World Top beer. Friendly custom and staff. Worth the walk down.

On 2^nd February 2019 - rating: 8
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