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The Jolly Coopers, Epsom
Epsom
KT18 7SD
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
paulof horsham left this review about The Jolly Coopers
Home of the Fuzzchat Brewery, who I'd previously not heard of. Their 4.7% Bracken Pale Ale was among the 5 well chosen cask ales on the bar, which also featured Surrey Hills Ranmore and one from Thornbridge. Admittedly, the home brew could have been served with a bit more love, and to slightly nearer the brim, but it did the job on a hot afternoon.
There's a bit of parking and some seating to the front of the pub, while, out the back, the beer garden is sheltered and smartly paved, though suffers from a noisy fan outlet out of the kitchen. It nevertheless served as a fine place to sup my pint and consider the trek back to the station.
On 30th June 2023
- rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Jolly Coopers
The Jolly Coopers was finally a pub that offered both a warm welcome and a decent selection of ales, a combination that seems to be increasingly difficult to attain.
There is plenty of seating available at the front of the pub, including a marquee need the roadside. I assume what would have been the car park has been used for this seating. I also believe that there is a further outdoor garden area at the rear.
5 ales were on - Surrey Hills Ranmore is the regular ale. Guests were Oakham JHB, Portobello Star, Long Man American IPA & Fuzzchat Lane End. We both tried the Fuzzchat beer, as it would have been rude not to.
This place has a quiet residential location, a warm welcome, a proper pub atmosphere (despite only outdoor seating currently permitted) and a good ale range. Best pub of the day.
On 23rd April 2021
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Jolly Coopers
A short walk out of town, not too far from the train station, this is a nicely modernised local’s pub set in a smart Common-side residential area. You enter directly into the main bar with the servery along the rear wall, opposite the front door. The bar area is carpeted and has limited tables and chairs along the front wall and in a small, open space to the left. The bar has a square ended dark wood counter and a simple bar back, with hundreds of pump clips adorning the surrounding wall space. Décor elsewhere is a little muted, with a few framed pictures and a string of fairy lights struggling to liven up plain painted walls. Through to the right there is a restaurant area where you are expected to wait to be seated, although on a weekend afternoon where the bar was packed but the restaurant was all but empty, we just plonked ourselves on the nearest table and protested our innocence when a waiter tried to take our order! The restaurant has a nice herringbone floor with a darker paint scheme, banquette seating down the right-hand wall and nice padded chairs elsewhere. A large plain mirror dominates one wall and has a small stove in a fireplace next to it, whilst retro advertisements and abstract art fills up the wall space elsewhere. Pop tunes were playing quietly in the background and a door to the rear leads out to a beer garden which also contains the pub’s own brewery, ‘Fuzzchat’.
Five handpulls on the bar gave us a choice of Cronx Kotchin, Red Willow Headless, Surrey Hills Ranmore, Park Secret Sunrise and Fuzzchat Westhill. Unfortunately, it was only after I ordered the Headless that I discovered that the Fuzzchat was a home brew, so I wasn’t able to sample it. The pint I ended up with was thankfully in good condition and went down well after a long walk around the common. There was a great atmosphere in the main bar area and the locals all seemed really friendly, offering us a cheery welcome as we entered.
This place definitely has more of a food-led feel to it than I had anticipated, but I think it has been handled pretty well by creating two very distinctly separate areas, one of which is a lively bar area. I’d say this place is worth heading out of town to check out and definitely makes a nice start/finish point if you’re walking around the common.
On 30th January 2020
- rating: 8
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Jolly Coopers
Set back in one of those areas where suburbia meets the country, this is an old pub with a fairly modern interior. The long front room holds the bar, with a restaurant area in the side building. At the back is a large patio area, but more importantly the Fuzzchat Brewery is housed in an outbuilding. Draught beers were from Surrey Hills, Pilgrim, Thornbridge and Hop Back, as well as one of their own brews, which was dark and delicious. Worth seeking out.
On 28th September 2019
- rating: 7
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john gray left this review about The Jolly Coopers
Smashing little pub and very appealing looking from outside.Small bar(busy) and larger dining area(empty).Warm and cosy.Cask beers were Black Sheep-Baa Baa,Surrey Hills -Ranmore and 2 from Fuzzchat brewery who will be brewing in the basement sometime soon.Liked this one.
On 21st October 2017
- rating: 8
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Malden man left this review about The Jolly Coopers
Three separate drinking areas, a saloon/lounge bar to the left, a public bar to the right and directly ahead on entering, a very small snug-like bar. There was a well attended quiz going on during our Monday evening visit, pretty much rendering the saloon bar out of bounds. We sat in the public bar where we were made very welcome by the staff and the locals who were watching Chelsea v Man City on the TV. This bar is very traditional in style with darts and pool being available. The room had an open vaulted ceiling, some exposed brickwork, a few chalked musings on a board above the bar. The fire was lit on what was a fairly miserable evening weather-wise. Only one handpump in this bar, sporting a Dark Star Hophead clip, but the helpful barman listed the other beers for us, all in the other room. A good selection too, running to five in all, Hop Back Red Ember, Tillingbourne Bitter Gem, Skinners Betty Stogs and Sambrooks Powerhouse Porter. Good to see a range of styles too. I found this to be an excellent, friendly and welcoming pub, well worth the wet and windy walk from central Epsom.
On 18th December 2011
- rating: 8
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Jolly Coopers
This is a traditionally designed pub that still retains its traditional layout. As you enter you are in a very small room with just a single table, which was originally probably a jug and bottle bar, or possibly a snug. To the right is a much larger room containing a pool table and a bit of seating (public bar?), and to the left is another room with some better quality tables and chairs, with small posies of carnations on the tables, which looks for all the world like a traditional saloon bar. This room had a couple of large fish tanks in it, and one of the beams was adorned with numerous pump clips, presumably as a testimony to its real ale policy.
Ales on during my visit were Jennings Cocky Blond, plus a pair of Surrey Hills ales: Shere Drop (£3 a pint) and Greensand IPA. A further pump had a clip reversed, which looked like a Dark Star offering to me. Three pumps were in the “saloon” bar, with a further pump in the “public” bar dispensing the Greensand IPA. Helpfully a Greensand IPA clip was also displayed on the bar counter in the saloon bar. I am informed by my Epsom informant that Shere Drop is a regular in this pub. There was a sign above the bar proclaiming the pub as the Kingston and Leatherhead CAMRA pub of the year, a fact of which they are clearly justifiably proud as there was also a chalkboard on the roadside announcing this accolade.
It’s obviously dog friendly, as a very large black mutt was allowed to sit in the entranceway. I didn’t see any food or menus during my midweek mid-afternoon visit, but there were adverts on the bar gantry for a Sunday roast at £7.95, a full English breakfast available between 10 – 2 on Saturday for a fiver, and Ruby Tuesday – curry, rice and naan for £6.50. There was no music being played during my visit, and I found it a delightful pub in which to enjoy a quiet pint of excellent Shere Drop. In fact I reckon it’s something of a gem of a pub, and I’ll definitely make an effort to return.
On 23rd July 2011
- rating: 8
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