The Merchants Inn, Rugby

Brilliant pub that any ale lover should visit. On entry there is a small bar area with seating stretching out into a room full of pub memorabilia, from past and present. Live sport showing on a big screen. Great selection of German lagers too if that's you're thing. I cannot recommend this place enough. Definitely in the top few pubs I've visited in my lifetime, just a shame I'm not local enough to visit often anymore.

Proper pub that I felt instantly at home in. Walls covered in brew paraphernalia. Large central area with big screen showing the Rugby, even when football is on. A smaller snug section, with a magnificent chesterfield arm chair. 9 real ale handpulls on - North Cotswold Winter Solstice was chosen, but unfortunately the only gravity fed barrel, fetched from around the back. Would have preferred to have been warned on this. Cracking pub, nonetheless - possibly the 2nd best found in Rugby.

This is a cracking pub. Hidden down the church lane this is a large, olde worlde kind of place. The its mainly open plan with the bar being central. Lots of beer related signs adorn the walls and the ceiling is covered with approximately a billion pump clips. The pub is basically split into 4 areas; a small area to your left on entering, the main nar area up a couple of steps and then 2 areas to the rear of the pub. 9 handpumps on the bar in a bank of 8 for ales and a handpump at the side of the bar for cider. Beers today were from Bright side, North Yorkshire, Oakham, Purity, Nethergate and Hook Norton. An excellent place.