The Pit & Pendulum, Nottingham

This pub was originally called the Malt House,this was a really nice looking pub that was a Scottish house with some decent Scottish ales on the bar like Youngers No3,sadly the pub was converted into the Pit and Pendulum several years ago. The Pit and Pendulum is a theme pub and in my opinion the novelty wore a bit thin after my first visit here several years ago. The pub has got two entrances the main entrance is on victoria street this takes you into the main bar and the pumps are in this area,there seems to be very few seats throughout the pub but lots of wrought iron work,there are lots of nooks and crannys and there is also a seating area downstairs which is where the toilets are,you have to go through a secret door in a bookcase to get to them,it is fuuny the first time you see people looking for a door but as with the whole pub this gets boring after your first visit. There were five pumps on the bar but only two real ales,i had a drink of Hobgoblin and this was quite a nice well kept drink the other beer was Old Speckled Hen. This pub might appeal to some but not to me. Malt House first visited 1981 Pit and Pendulum visited 19/9/2012

Its a great fun quirky pub. Things that let it down are with the RIP card which is free, you just fill a form in and then you are supposed to get 10% discount every time you use it, but they make excuses on some nights saying there is already a discount so you wont get the 10%, and you don't always get a full pint. Other than that all is fine