The Crooked Billet, Ware

Yes concur, well worth the walk up New Road and the Musley Hill from the town centre. This is a fine, well run pub which offered probably the best beer choice of the pubs taken in during the days crawl. Although one internal smallish space the two distinct drinking areas create saloon/public bar-style options and the pool table at one end, dart board at the other and plazma screen showing Sky sports for the middle two seating sections all seems to work well and the pub is comfortable rather than cluttered. The knowledgeable Landlord keeps three beers on the bar top hand pumps but as mentioned also has at least one barrel and often two going in the cellar. And invariably one of these is a dark beer. As well as the three beers mentioned below there was Caledonian Flying Scotsman available from the cellar, but this wasn’t obvious as the cellar beers are advertised at the back of the serving area. So if you do decide to take a walk up here for the ale it’s advisable to ask if anything else is on before ordering from the available hand pumps. This is now deservedly a Good Beer Guide regular.

The Crooked Billet is to the north of the town and was fairly close to the Rising Sun. This was a fairly decent pub inside and it is a Greene King tied house,there were two real ales on the bar i had a drink of Greene King IPA and this was a decent drink the other beer was Abbot. Pub visited 25/6/2005