Kilverts, Hereford

Kilverts Beer Festival site - www.kilvertsbeerfestival.yolasite.com

Kilverts Beer Festival site - www.kilvertsbeerfestival.yolasite.com

Rambling food led pub near the Lightwater Valley theme park, very popular sunday cavery. A much extended old stone building with a bar, several dining areas and a nice garden intruded into by the car park. The bar counter is in a room with some seats that acts as a public bar and there's a lounge area with sofas on the other side of the bar counter. Décor very much old rural building with exposed beams and farming implements. Three pulls on the bar dispensing reasonably kept, but a touch cold, Black Sheep Bitter and Golden Sheep plus Theakstons Best. Keg offerings from Carling, 1664, Guinness, Strongbow, plus the rather more palatable Grolsch Blonde and Bitburger

A nice stone build in the main square, with dormer windows, front beer patio and rear beer garden. The interior has a restaurant, which i didn't visit and a pub, which of course, i did. The pub part is one room, with a small bar in the corner. The decor is white, with beamed ceiling and supports, wood panel, along with a stone fireplace at one end and a marble-effect? one at the other. The decoration is a mixture of paintings, caricature/cartoon and the lamented but stunning Audrey Hepburn - oh, and a guitar. There were a collection of wine bottles and an array of real ale beer mats/pump clips. There was a big screen TV, not on. The service was excellent, the clientele mixed and sadly for a miserable person like me, the place was full both at lunch and evening when i popped back. It seems popular with the locals as a couple of the book sellers were in, that i had chatted to, when i returned. I didn't eat here, but i wish i had. No idea of the quality, but the portions looked decent and nothing can be worse than the Hay Cafe, where i paid £11 for a couple of lamb burgers that were burnt and no thicker than one of the beer mats on the wall here. Beer; usual tap things, with an excellent Butty Bach,a decent Arkells Moonlight and Brecon Brewery's Kilvert's Gold and an untried Bass on handpull. I cant really pick much fault in the place, other than its too small for a misery like me - and i probably never bothered before as it is a hotel, rather than pub. I returned to this pub for my last of the trip simply as it was the best - if this place did a MILD, it would be hard to beat.

Official site of Kilverts Hotel - www.kilverts.co.uk

Official site of Kilverts Hotel - www.kilverts.co.uk