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Dead Wax Digbeth, Birmingham
Bordesley
Postal town: Birmingham
B9 4ED
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Ian Mapp left this review about Dead Wax Digbeth
Quite an exciting little venue. Stumbled on pre-midday but the blues were home and it was filling up with pre-game boozers.
Its a live music venue and has many bands on. Also plays a lot of vinyly, quite loud but good stuff. Especially if you are a bit of a mod. I suppose it was lads music for the lads, bearing in mind their clientele at the time.
Small front room, leading to another back room and quite an airy covered garden with impressive street art.
For the Hoxton Feel, you get Hoxton prices. £6.50 for a 4.2% Siren Lumina on Keg. Which was delicious.
Certainly more interesting that how it was reported in its previous life.
On 4th September 2023
- rating: 8
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Delboy 20 left this review about The Wagon & Horses
The Wagon is now a "vinyl" bar called Dead Wax Digbeth.
On 7th December 2019
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Wagon & Horses
Rough-and-ready old boozer entirely in keeping with the neighbourhood, with something of a reputation as a music pub. That said, the interior has some residual features harking back to better days, including a moulded counter frontage in the main bar. There is also a back room with a further small servery. Basic furniture and decor throughout. Slater's Top Totty (£3.00) available from one of four handpumps, with a reversed Doom Bar clip noted on another.
On 12th November 2017
- rating: 6
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Wagon & Horses
Very basic boozer, in industrial Digbeth, and not comfortable at all and has a locals feel.
But its a lovely building from the outside and the one real ale - Wye Valley HPA - is excellent.
One to do if you're local or on a crawl around Digbeth.
On 1st October 2012
- rating: 4
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Wagon & Horses
This is a nice looking detached pub and live music venue, with a rear patio area. The pub has a slight curve to it and with its sash windows and moulded cornice, pilasters, leaded windows, coloured glass and black paintwork, it has more than a touch of the Georgian look about it. Once called the Cannonball for a while after a former gaffer's nickname.
The interior is technically an open-plan L-shaped room. You enter a straight bar room, with the serving bar facing you on entry. The decor is white and coffee, with white ceiling and a wood/carpet floor. The lounge is at the back and is in the same decor, except with a carpet floor and some fake beams on the walls, with nice chandeliers. There are brick chimney breast in both rooms, the lounge has a stove in the fireplace. There are some old Brum photos on the walls, with a few mirrors and some tea tins for interest. There was a smaller TV in the bar room and there was a larger screen TV in the lounge area, both showing football. The bar has a dart board too. There was no background music. They don't do food, just a few cobs and sandwiches. The service was fine and the clientele consisted for a few locals.
Beer; usual tap stuff with M&B MILD, with Sharpe's Doombar and a decent Wye Valley HPA on handpull
A good little pub that i have been to a few times, and one i would happy return to, especially now the real ale is in.
On 29th November 2011
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General Staal left this review about The Wagon & Horses
A lovely old pub in Digbeth, dating from the early part of the nineteenth century.
It has two rooms, a rear lounge and a front bar. The lounge had a big screen showing the football, on silent, when I visited.
There are fake wooden beams screwed to the wall, painted cream or 'off white'.
Beerwise, it does the usual suspects, with M&B Mild on smooth, and two real ales, Wye Valley HPA and Sharp's Doom Bar. I had the HPA, which was delicious. However, I have heard rumours that the ales are not always on by mid-week.
There were only about four other punters in when I was there. There was an old boy behind the bar who, for me added to the atmosphere.
This felt like a pub that should have been in the middle of a country village rather than post-industrial Digbeth.
I really liked the Wagon and Horses and would definitely be back.
On 27th November 2011
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