The Old Bank House, Tamworth

Will Larter left this review about The Old Bank House

A lovely building which I've been meaning to visit since it became a pub over two years ago, but somehow I never visited Tamworth when it was open until now. Inside it is looking less like a bank (which it was) than a house that has been turned into a museum/gallery, with furniture that surely must be reproduction rather than original, but very nice for all that, and modern art on the walls. The bar is in a back room and had five hand pumps on the go at the time of my visit. As with my visit to the Sheriff of Tamworth, there were no beers below 5% abv, except for a milk stout - how does a beer with the word "stout" in the name come to be the weakest beer on a bar? I went for Charnwood brewery's Steam Train 4.5%, which was in very good condition (NBSS 3.5) and £4.40 a pint. I looked around for somewhere comfortable, but the whole ground floor was filled with heavy metal music from the ubiquitous loudspeakers. This is a building and rooms that surely deserve a bit of peace and quiet to enhance the ambience and facilitate our enjoyment of the beers. But no, we have to have our ears assailed by loud music so that we know that we really are bloody well enjoying ourselves. Three points taken off the score for raising my blood pressure.

On 17^th October 2023 - rating: 4
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