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The Turks Head, Exeter

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57A High Street
Exeter
EX4 3DJ

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Exeter Central

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Strongers . left this review about The Turks Head

The Turks Head is a long and thin pub with a wooden and tiled floor and traditional wood panelling around the walls. There are high table in the front and the serving counter is found mid-way up the right-hand wall. At the rear behind some glass is the in-house Turks Head Brewery, three of their beers were available on hand pump. This is a card only venue so I went for the ironically named Cash is King, and yes the barman must have heard it a million times before. There are actually six hand pumps, the friendly barman informed me that there was some work in progress hence the limited cask selection. This was still one of the busier pubs I visited during a recent Wednesday crawl around the city.

On 26^th May 2025 - rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Turks Head

This is quite a good sized pub when you take into account the first floor and two side rooms on the ground and first floor. There was also a roof terrace for some alfresco drinking or dining as the pub serves food.
The main features in here for me was the in house brewery positioned on the left of the main ground floor bar and the fabulous entrance with a timber gallery over the entrance.
Five of their own beers on handpump Witches Brew Stout, Crusader session IPA, Barries Best Bitter, Cash is King Red Ale, Dinkum Aussie Pale Ale. We went for the stout which was excellent.

On 1^st October 2024 - rating: 7
[User has posted 3684 recommendations about 3684 pubs]

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Quinno _ left this review about The Turks Head

Two entrances to this one at either end, so don’t necessarily trust Google to be sensible. Long and narrow inside which I assume to be a connecting extension to another building behind. Surprisingly little seating downstairs though there's an upstairs room which was full of footy watchers seeing Leeds head towards their Premier League demise. Found a high table downstairs in a fairly pleasant space with aged wood panelling (Original? Fake? Either way, looked nice enough) and high ceiling with a blessed set of windows to let the light in a bit. Has picked up a CAMRA gong for 'outstanding conversion or restoration' which is fair. This is a brewpub (which I hadn’t realised) with five of theirs on. My Cash Is King was a disappointing non-shifting homebrew (NBSS 2) which at £2.45 a half was a bit of a piss-take so I can see why the local CAMRA's overlook this one for GBG. IRONY ALERT - despite the beer’s title this is a card-only outlet. I wanted to like this one but I struggled to see much beyond a place that box-ticks; either sort your homebrew cask out and shift it at sensible prices, or can the thing and stick a couple of brews on that will shift.

On 5^th July 2023 - rating: 6
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