The Cat Inn, Stourbridge

Rightly award-winning village pub. The exterior brickwork is now painted in a light primrose shade, with black on the doors and window frames. With the building being so close to the busy main road, you now enter through the pleasant beer garden, one side of which is formed by a tall 'green wall' with creepers entirely covering the next-door brickwork. Splendid multi-room layout with bars on each side of the central servery and a snug with just a tiny counter in one corner. All very traditional, as you would expect, although there is also a more modern room in another corner of the building. Effectively being the Enville Brewery tap, I found three of their beers - Ale (£3.20), Ginger and Simpkiss - and Off the Rails from Hartlebury being dispensed outdoors from a serving hatch as well as from the handpumps inside.