Beacon Hotel, Dudley

The Beacon looks small from the outside but once inside it goes back quite away. On my visit the pub was packed at about 2.45.on a saturday dinner it was hard work getting through the narrow area to the main drinking area and once there i could'nt tell what beers were on the bar so i asked for a decent drink and ended up with a beer called Sedgley Surprise this was very nice. There may have been other beers on here but it was to busy and i could'nt see what was on the bar,then to my surprise they called last orders at 2.50 when the pub was very busy i did'nt understand why ?. I would have probably enjoyed my visit to this pub if it was a bit quieter and i had longer to have a drink before being chucked out. Pub visited 17/5/2008

Idiosyncratic home brew pub, it uses only handled glasses (dimpled jugs) which are served from a wooden phone box like kiosk with serving hatches at both sides. There are numerous small spaces making up the first bar you enter but I liked the larger Smoke Room to the left, the Camra types cluster in the entry corridor near the serving hatch. The Smoke room, like most of the pub is decorated and furnished in traditional style (benches and Britannia tables). The Sarah Hughes beers are excellent and the pub also sells Sam Smiths in bottle, it is a bit hard to see what else might be available in the “kiosk”. The pub was busy when others I passed were empty or fairly quiet and I can probably guess why.