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The Shaking Hand, Solihull

Pub added by Real Ale Ray

Unit 24, Parkgate Shopping Centre
Shirley
Postal town: Solihull
B90 3GG

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Ian Mapp left this review about The Shaking Hand

Need to hunt this down - located at the park end of a row of new build shops/supermarkets. Not on the main drag.

A tiny micro pub, with a few seats inside and out. Good mixture of cask (four and very decent two sampled), keg (£6.40 for a Deya) and wide collection of tinnies and bottles (craft and german/belgium).

Once again on my second lunchtime visit to a pub this week, I am the only customer in a 1 hour stay. People are going to talk.

Certainly the most interesting place in Shirley where the other craft place is perm closed and the ancient and wonderfully historic coach houses are now sizzling or stone house abominations of what a pub should be.

On 19^th September 2024 - rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Shaking Hand

A decent micropub with three quality beers to choose from on our Thursday evening visit. The three handpumps on were Black Jack Jack in the Box Blonde, Bexley Brewery Spike Island and Copper Beach Birdie. I went for the Black Jack Blonde, a very decent 4% session ale at £4.20 a pint. There was also a blackboard near the bar area displaying a list of 40 tinned beers from the fridges, 20% off on 'Tinnie Thursday'.

On 29^th May 2023 - rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Shaking Hand

Modern light and airy one room micropub that opened in March 2019, just in time for Covid, located in the Shirley Parkgate shopping centre. However they seem to have survived well and had a few in on this Saturday evening.
The small bar has four hand pumps for cask and five keg taps for craft which I was told regularly rotate. Then fridges with a good collection of bottles and cans.
There’s a lot of glass frontage here and I prefer micropubs without the distraction of TV screens. However it’s the locals that count and if it attracts them all well and good. But for sure this is a very good addition for ale choice in Shirley and I wish it well.

On 11^th August 2022 - no rating submitted
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