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The Rising Sun, Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted
HP4 2EG
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Thuck Phat left this review about The Rising Sun
The Riser is an attractive Victorian canalside boozer.
On entry up the stairs you walk straight into the cosy bar area with a wide range of snuff available on the bar. To the left is another, larger, room with assorted tables and chairs and beyond this, behind the bar area, is a small snug like area with again various tables and chairs and two large and very comfortable armchairs.
The welcome we received was friendly and the locals are chatty. This was perhaps helped by it being quiz night which takes place on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month when you can also order a fish and chip supper.
The Riser is a long time GBG entrant but the focus does seem to have been on cider historically rather than beer and the ale range used to be invariably disappointing. Not so now and while this is still very much a cider emporium, the beer range is also very good. On offer during our visit were: Vale Black Beauty Porter, Dark Star American IPA which was changed for Vale Gravitas, Rising Sun Riser, Blindmans Buff from the Blindmans Brewery and Blackfriars Mitre Gold. An unusual and well selected range with both the Gravitas and American IPA being excellent.
The place to go in Berko for both beer and cider and a very comfortable and cosy pub to enjoy both in. I'll certainly return.
On 9th October 2011
- rating: 9
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Andy Ven left this review about The Rising Sun
Not a review as such but just to highlight that this pub has the honour of its photograph adorning the front cover of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2012.
On 1st September 2011
- no rating submitted
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train man left this review about The Rising Sun
Very attractive canalside pub immediately adjacent to a lock. Tring ‘Riser’ (I asked if it was a re-badge of a regular Tring beer but they claimed it was an exclusive brew, hmm), Rutland Panther, Beartown Ginger Bear, Great Newsome Frothingham Best. A sign above the bar invites you to ‘try our draught cider from the cellar’ and 3 separate boards each displayed 5 cider pumpclips, some annotated ‘sold out’, also another 3 handpulls offering Westons Cider & Country Perry, plus Addlestones. Snuff boxes sit next to the ale pumps. Bare board floor throughout leads beyond small bar room to another with stand alone banquette/pew seating, framed sample knots, mirrors. Background was quiet classical music ~13:30. Some picnic sets outside enable seating right next to the canal and a small bay window (with seating) in each room overlooks water. Very good indeed; should’ve stayed for another instead heading off for the train, which we missed. Oddly, and coincidentally, one of a couple of locals at the bar recommended Eastwoods butchers (‘if you want to gain some points with the missus’), which one of the group had praised moments earlier when we passed it.
On 9th May 2010
- rating: 8
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