Garrison, Mansfield

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My recent visit to the Garrison coincided with regular Thursday evening live music so there was a band set up in the front right window and the pub was heaving. Open plan seating is found in the front and seating runs up the right-hand wall opposite the serving counter where there’s also DJ equipment including a record player, music plays a very prominent role here. The walls are busy with beer and cider boards, a pizza menu, award certificates and random art. There’s another room at the rear with a beer shelf and table football, but it was being used as a storeroom, or maybe a delivery had not long arrived. There are two small toilet cubicles, a male and a female, that I don’t think is enough for a bar of this size, however the gents was free when I needed it mid set. The serving counter supports five hand pumps, three of which were in use drawing Left Handed Giant’s All Square, Vocation’s Bread & Butter and Shiny Brewery’s Live Wire. There are also some craft keg options available alongside Cruzcampo and three Hawkstone Brewery options. I went for the Live Wire that I found a bit too fruity, although I had just drunk a lager in the Byron so maybe that affected the taste. I liked it in here so will pop back in next time I’m in town.

On 11^th October 2025 - rating: 8
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