The Alexandra Arms, Rugby

Bizarre pub sign - showing the end of the world. The door that I entered through led to an empty snug, with an unmanned bar. There was the sign of life from the other room but not immediately obvious on how you get in there. A sign saying ring the bell. No obvious sign of a bell. When I asked the barman, he didnt know where the bell was. A poor pint of Hook Norton Hookey - on the turn, and hazy. Disappointing for a GBG 2019 Pub.

Traditional side-street pub, now the Atomic Brewery tap. Retains a two-bar layout, although shortage of time before catching a train meant that I didn't have time to investigate the seemingly larger back bar (which you could see through the dividing window contains a pool table). However, I did have time to take in the compact 'L'-shaped front bar which features plain but tidy furniture. A row of six handpumps can be found on the main counter, with a mix of national and regional beers (e.g. Pride, Oakham Citra, Nethergate Umbel and Abbeydale Deception), a cider and - surprisingly - just one in-house offering: Half Life (£1.50, half).

A pleasant little pub. A front L-shaped room is where you will find the main servery. 6 handpumps on the bar with beers from Abbeydale, Nethergate, Fuller's and Atomic. A cider and a perry were also on. To the rear is a largish GE's room with a pool table, darts and fruity. Beyond that is a beer garden.

As noted below this is a pub with an L shaped room at the front that was clearly once two bars. This room is comfy and has been well refurbished. On my Thursday midday visit unusually and a first for me, there was a union meeting going on in the area to the left. I felt like standing up and cheering when they were banging on about what the current government are up to and especially as they were not voted in by the majority of British people just 36% of them. At the rear is a large games room and further on a proper pub garden. These only seemed to be accessible from a door where the union meeting was taking place into a corridor. it looked like the games room had it's own bar with a bank of hand pumps but there was nobody about. The bar here has six hand pumps that on my visit had one unused, London Pride, Atomic Dark Matter, Abbeydale Deception, Nethergate Growler Bitter and Oakham Inferno. Given that this pub bills itself as the home of Atomic brewery I found this choice rather disappointing in that all the guest ales were from older long established brewers. I ordered a Dark Matter (£2.50) and sadly it smelled and tasted of vinegar. It was replaced with good grace for the Deception which was fine. I have to say I found this one to be rather disappointing.