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The Fountain Inn, Tipton
Tipton
DY4 8HE
Pub Type
Punch TavernsReviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Will Larter left this review about The Fountain Inn
A lively roadside pub, at least it was when I was here on a Thursday lunchtime. Everyone was eating except me, all tables were taken and consequently I wasn't sitting either. I saw that the home-made curry was £7.50 and cobs were advertised at £1 to £1.30, and a saw quite a few plates loaded with chips and fried eggs and gammon too. More importantly, on the bar were five hand pumps (see photo); I went for the Abbot Ale, which was in very good nick (NBSS 3.5).
Date of visit: 23rd November 2023
On 24th December 2023
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Fountain Inn
A good traditional and well kept pub, with a respectable clientele. The interior was carpeted throughout, traditional upholstered banquette seating with matching chairs and white painted rendered walls. Four handpumps serving Holdens Golden Glow, Robinsons Dizzy Blonde, Wye Valley HPA and Abbot. We went for the HPA which was in great shape.
On 26th July 2022
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The Fountain Inn
A former Banks’ pub, this is now opened-out and modernised but a cosy place nonetheless; white grey and purple colourings (yes really, but it works), pub carpet, ice lighting. Very friendly barmaid, great banter for the two minutes she sorted our order out. GBG 21 listed with three cask offerings over five (I think) pumps – whether this was a deliberate reduction to help turnover or simply running out, there was at least a guarantee of freshness and my Wye Valley HPA was close to perfect (NBSS 4.5) – other ales were Castle Rock Harvest Pale and (oddly?) GK Abbot. Really bustling atmosphere and I enjoyed my stop here.
On 31st December 2021
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Fountain Inn
Canal-side pub, and certainly the most interesting feature of Tipton's undistinguished High Street. Looks pleasingly traditional both inside and out, having a partly opened-out layout featuring a 'L'-shaped bar and a narrow lounge on the other side of the central counter. With four of the seven handpumps in use when I stopped by, I found Wainwright, Abbot, Wye Valley HPA and the Holden's Golden Glow (£3.40, but a bit 'end of the barrel' which is a bit disappointing for a GBG-listed establishment).
On 29th February 2020
- rating: 6
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Gill Smith left this review about The Fountain Inn
Friendly canalside pub that features in the 2019 Good Beer Guide. Good ale selection today. Hook Norton crafty series Sundial, Arkells Spring Hopper, Wadworth Burnt Orange IPA and Elgoods Saturday night Beaver along with their regular Greene King Abbot and Wye Valley HPA beers. Beer garden through the pub, and canal seating served with plastic glasses .
On 16th May 2019
- rating: 8
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Fountain Inn
Historical associations with the Tipton Slasher - blue plaque on pub, monument over the road.
2017 Good Beer Guide Entry. Classic pub furniture around a single bar. TV with football with sound on low. Wadworth 6x amongst the choice of 3/4 real ales on and it was in superb condition.
Tidy, traditional pub.
Visit blogged at http://bit.ly/2MCivfg
On 30th August 2018
- rating: 8
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David Boaz left this review about The Fountain Inn
I now use the pub almost every Friday lunchtime having avoided it for many years after it became a Holt, Plant & Deacon house (minimal menu, poor food, obscene prices and run of the mill ales). They now offer a choice of 6 real ales, all well kept, and have a good menu with competitively priced options. With friendly staff and customers it is a rare jewel amongst the many often rough squirt houses in Tipton. It tends to be rather rammed late in September when they hold a beer festival to coincide with the very popular Canal and Community Festival but bith are well worth a visit.
On 30th July 2016
- rating: 7
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Aqualung . left this review about The Fountain Inn
This old canalside pub is owned by Punch Taverns according to What Pub which seems more likely than Marston / Banks's because as a former Holt Deacon & Plant house it would almost certainly have previously been an Ansell's pub.
I arrived here mid afternoon on a Tuesday to find it surprisingly busy. What was almost certainly at least two rooms is now just a single room with a sort of island bar in the middle. There is still a dart board in the area to the left.
The bar has seven hand pumps which had a cider, Banks's Mild,
Bootleg Urban Fox, London Pride, Wye Valley HPA, Castle Rock Harvest Pale and Hobson's Town Crier. I went for the HPA (£3.00) which was excellent.
I thought this was a very pleasant pub despite the beer selection being a bit mainstream.
On 23rd May 2016
- rating: 7
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Fountain Inn
This is a canalside Banks's pub, with beer garden. The pub is grade II listed and is Georgian in style; and is ever associated with the Tipton Slasher, one William Perry, whose statue stands nearby. The pub is white rendered, with an upper row of sash windows and a lower Victorian frontage, although it has pilasters and entablature. The interior has an L-shaped room that is in white and wood panel, with a coffee ceiling and somebeams. The seating is gold in clour and there are a couple of tiled fireplaces at either end. Old local photos and Tipton Slasher stuff is dotted about and there is a dart board in the old snug part of the room. The TV wasn't on and the background music was general and at a decent level. The service was friendly and there were lots of people, most outside, of all ages. Beer; usual tap stuff with Adnam's Southwold Bitter, Brakspear Bitter, Lees Bitter (decent), Wye Valley HPA, Banks's Bitter and MILD (decent) on handpull. A great pub and one definitely worth a vist - I could have stopped here for hours. A ray of light in Tipton.
On 4th August 2013
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Fountain Inn
The Fountain is a decent looking pub and when i first visited this pub it was an Holt,Plant &Deacon house with a decent choice of beers on the bar.
The pub s now badged as a banks's free house, once inside the pub was fairly smart and well kept i had a drink of Banks's bitter and this was ok.
On 6th March 2011
- rating: 7
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