The Corn Mill, Llangollen

Brunning & Price pub in an old flour mill. Whilst the upper floors are very popular with diners, the ground floor was also busy with drinkers on my Wednesday evening visit in October. It was already too cold for any outdoor drinking. The ale choice was the best in Llangollen - Brunning & Price Traditional Bitter & Facer's DHB appear to be the regular ales. Guests were Hobson's Town Crier, Tudor Blackberry Stout & Llangollen IPA. The cider was Lilley's Elderflower. My 6% stout was very enjoyable indeed. Well worth a visit when in Llangollen. Why are the town's 2 best pubs not in the Good Beer Guide?

Will concur with Delboy that this is a really good Brunning and Price pub restaurant built into an old stone mill house building with an ideal position overlooking the River Dee and with an excellent view of both the fast flowing section of the river and the Llangollen heritage railway station on the opposite bank. Blessed with a fine weather week we also utilised it a few times during our week in town both initially as a pub and then on our last night as a restaurant. Most of the three floors of the pub internally is used as a restaurant with the exception of ground floor bar and lounge room. But the key feature is the outside space which is the fantastic outside decking area which stretches out over the river and is in full glare of the sun for most of the day. It’s a great spot for an alfresco pint and to watch people mucking about in rafts and canoes on the water. But another reason to visit the Corn Mill is that, alongside the struggling Sun Inn and the newish Liberty Tavern it’s the only place in town with a varied and changing beer choice. On my first visit Facer’s Flintshire Brewery DHB, Stonehouse Station Bitter, Mobberley Brewhouse Bunji Session Pale and a very pleasant Twisted Wheel Come and Go were on the ground floor bar. Then at the end of the week when we visited to use the restaurant section the latter three had been replaced by Brunning and Price own badged bitter, Weetwood Ales Southern Cross and Bragdy Brewery Rampart in the upstairs bar.

Really nice Brunning and Price pub right by the river. Stunning outside terrace overlooking the water below. We called in a few times during the week and there was a good choice of beers on. I enjoyed Hobson's Town Crier and a couple from Phoenix brewery - Dragon IPA and White Tornado. Well worth a visit.