Crown Inn, Nottingham

East midlands CAMRA POTY 2010 and 2011!!

The pubsign contained the strap line "a cask ale emporium" which sounds like a hostage to fortune but is fully backed up by a wonderful selection of 14 real ales.Everards have also lovingly restored a five room interior to this old ,listed building with low ceilings and the whole package is top drawer. On entering the front door,to the right through narrow swinging wooden doors is a cosy snug known as The Whisky Bar with a very extensive range of single malts.There is a narrow leather bench seat below the window ,three tables and a few stools in a convivial small space.At the end of the room is a tiny confessional snug with its own bar access and room for no more than three.Fabulous. Walking around the interior there are nooks and crannies,and a slightly larger back lounge with a massive low beam.Apart from the games room,all other rooms have bar access,sometime via a serving hatch. The ale selection is outstanding .There is always a Blue Monkey and Nottingham Brewery ale available,together with Tiger and two from Leatherbritches.Other handpumps dispence rotating guests and there is care taken to include a wide range of styles and strengths.Cider and Perry is well represented.Signs advertise regular weekend festivals featuring a different brewer each week and the fact that Marble is on their list of forthcoming events speaks volumes about the reputation for excellence here.The barman was very knowledgeable about all aspects of real ale,and the whole operation was superb. One of the very best pubs I have ever had the pleasure to drink in,I can't sing it's praises high enough.Just get there and enjoy.

Great real ale pub since it's re-invention after years as a tied house. Visited on the 28th december and was very satisfied with my 4 pints, including Brains, Tiger and 2 micro brews that I can't remember the name of. As always, the pub was packed and if it hadn't been for friends arriving earlier than me, I would have struggled for a seat. This is about the Crown's only bad point, the locals use it and keep it busy. Great pork pie and cobs on the bar, nice clean toilets and no banging music. Loads of outside seating at the rear, including a beautifully built smoking hut, complete with red light heaters and wooden seating. Nice big car park too, that the pub sometimes puts a marquee on when they have a beer festival or other event. Long may the Crown continue in this vien.

Along with the nearby Victoria Hotel, this is one of Beeston's best real ale pubs. I think a bit more could be done to spruce the place up a bit though.

A pub I end up in on a Friday night. Very friendly and a very good choice of real ales.

This is a charming pub deserving its entry in the 2011 Good Beer Guide, and has won the local CAMRA pub of the year award. It is multiroomed, and they are interesting to wander round. A large outside drinking area too. Friendly staff knowledgable about the 14 ales on offer make it rightly called a real ale emporium. Bar snacks, pork pies, sausage roll, pasties and scotch egg type of fayre along with rolls in the way of food. There is a confessional snug at the side of the main front bar. Enjoyed 3 beers from Leatherbritches here, part of a series I would think and at a reasonable £2 a pint. Cad, Bounder and Scoundrel. Also had the Blue Monkey 100 Red Baboons out to celebrate Nottingham Drinkers 100 editions. Well worth the trip out from Nottingham on bus 13 and 14 and not far from Beeston bus station.