The Wheatsheaf, Walsall

The place is now tidier than when it was a Firkin pub. The church pews are long gone and the lower part of the pub is set out mainly for diners. Low coffee tables and leather sofas provide the seating in the upper part. A variety of fancy dressed people provided some entertainment on their way through to the upstairs function room. The pub has grown up but is no longer the popular place to be as it once was. It felt a bit empty but it was only about 7 o'clock on a Saturday evening. It was OK but I didn't feel inspired. Current cask offerings are Titanic Chocolate Stout, Summat Special IPA and Bombardier. The fourth handpull was off.

A nice, yet strange shaped buidling - like two Georgian houses pushed together, squashing a small building in between! The exterior has half white render and half cream. It looks neat. Local CAMRA pub of the year for 2008. The interior is open plan, bar area (stools) gives way to a lounge area (sofas), then onto a dining area (tables and chairs). There are lots of bits of memorabilia dotted about on the plain coloured white and beigey (i think) coloured walls Beer; Everard's Sunchaser, Bombardier and Hop Back Summer Lightning; i have tasted better Sunchaser. It remains a decent enough place and does carry off the blend of older and modern. We pop in here on a semi-regular basis.

Recently changed hands again, now run by two women, just started doing food again but no calvery any more. Stocks real some real ales now.