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The Flowerpot, Derby
Derby
DE1 3DZ
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Mark Davey left this review about The Flower Pot
Great pub, full of great beer. There is a little beer garden out the back, which just catches the late sun in summer. What more do you need?
On 19th April 2013
- rating: 8
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Gill Smith left this review about The Flower Pot
This 2013 Good Beer Guide pub has always been on my list of pubs to visit when in Derby and has improved over the last year or two. The interlinking rooms give plenty of seating choice, and the massive glass wall to the stillages of beers is a great feature. Home to Black Iris brewery we enjoyed Black Iris Sunflower. What I love about this pub is that it also serves a great range of ales from other micro breweries, and we stayed awhile to enjoy Bays Spooky Ale, Blue Bee Shake Rattle and Roll, Revolutions EP, and Wood Street Devil Wood too.
On 11th November 2012
- rating: 9
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ROB Camra left this review about The Flower Pot
Still going strong. We've visited the pub several times since my last review and always had top notch beer. Black Iris is now the on site brewery after the sad death of the Headless brewer. On Saturday last week my pint of Revolutions Entertainment was on top form.
14/07/2010
If you start at one end of the bar and have a half of everything on the handpumps in here you'll never leave! Usually in midweek they don't have much beer on, only the 12 - 15 guest ales plus their own beers from the on site micro brewery (Headless). At weekends they put quite a few more on. They always have a good selection of beer literature around, Derby Drinker, Nottingham Drinker etc. I've always found it to be a friendly pub and I never miss coming here when in Derby.
On 20th July 2012
- rating: 8
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Flower Pot
Quite a deceiving looking pub from the front as it goes back such a long way. It also hosts a venue room for bands and can take 250 people. Has the Black Iris micro brewery on site. Eleven handpumps on my visit, Black Iris all gone to my disappointment. I went for the Oakham Scarlet Macaw which was on its last. Whim Ales Arbor Lights, Whim Hartington IPA, Newmans Pale Seal Pup. Friendly staff, will call again.
On 20th November 2011
- rating: 8
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Roy Collins left this review about The Flower Pot
Pub has been much extended and contains several rooms. Excellant choice of 10 real ales.Judging by the posters it is a lively music scene too.Food is also served.
On 31st July 2011
- rating: 8
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I L left this review about The Flower Pot
Having been in this place numerous times before on our visit on a May bank Holiday Monday the range of ales was not what it was on previous visits but still about 10 on which is still and exellent range. However the place was not very busy and despite waiting to be served, a small group came in and got served before us. I can accept this in a busy place when its difficult for the staff to keep track of whos next but this was a very quite time in the pub and we were clearly waiting for a while in front of the barmaid. We didnt stay as there are plenty of other good pubs in Derby to do.
On 3rd June 2011
- rating: 5
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Flowerpot
A two-tier building, with a red rendered upper and white rendered and larger lower section, with attached music venue.
The interior is open plan, with different areas including a library. The decor is mainly in red, white and wood panel, with a nice wood bar, ceiling beams and lots of various old epemera on the walls, including pictures of the pub and Derby. Service was ok, the clientele friendly, again joining in our conversations - Mr Hackwood debating the merits of Bonnie Prince Charlie with a local chap.
Beer; tap stuff, with a range on their own microbrewery beers on handpull, as well as several others. Sadly i only noted that i had York Brewery's Constantine - which was fine.
I thought this place was another top-notch stop off. I will return here.
On 28th November 2009
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Old Boots left this review about The Flowerpot
Friendly ale house with a wide range of well kept microbrewery beers. Looks small from the outside but is quite spacious inside. Plain older style décor but not tatty, fairly typical of decent old boozers. Good service and chatty locals, mainly middle aged men. Home of the Headless Brewery but I didn't try any of their fine ales. It also offers live music regularly.
On 21st November 2009
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Flower Pot
Quite dark inside as soon as you step away from the front windows, but not so gloomy that one can't see a vast array of hampumps with all different kinds of interesting brews on offer (including a decent Over and Out Stout from the Headless Brewery out the back of the pub). A real ale drinkers 'must visit' destination.
On 28th February 2009
- rating: 8
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Roger Button left this review about The Flowerpot
In Venice, they say all streets lead to St Marks Square. In Derby, any mention of beer seems to lead to the Flowerpot. With an uncountable number of ales on offer, it is not hard to see how the pub gets its reputation as the No 1 Ale pub in Derby and probably the UK. It initially appears to be a fairly small pub but it opens up to the rear and is deceptively spacious. That said, it is also fairly plain and featureless and without the ales or the almost equally impressive adjoining music venue, it would be a fairly mundane run of the mill place. Music posters and listings dominate the walls but there are some interesting oddments among them including a display of old classic adverts (Pears Soap, Marmalade, Corn Flower etc), bottle collections and the 1914/15 Derby County fixture list that throws up some interesting forthcoming matches against the likes of Glossop and Leicester Fosse. Note also the old photos of the pub that show it named as the New Flower Pot. The stillage bar reveals numerous casks racked up behind a glass screen with a spaghetti like mass of tubes leading to the numerous beer taps. In contrast, at the end of the bar sits an old Watneys Red Barrel pump. It really is possible to spend an entire weekend here and not have the same beer twice although we did intend to have a lunch here but found the food selction was a little basic and disappointing. As a number crunching alehouse, the Flowerpot is second to none but don't expect a building of any significant character.
On 29th October 2008
- rating: 8
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