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Cask & Pottle, Burton on Trent
Tutbury
Postal town: Burton on Trent
DE13 9LP
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Cask & Pottle
Standard-issue micro-pub, with basic furniture limited decoration. Busy (and quite boisterous) on a Thursday evening. Four cask ales listed on the chalkboard, but with no counter, all are served by gravity from the 'Apparatus Room'. I went for the Broadtown Bobby's Tipple (£4.20), which was fine.
On 3rd December 2023
- rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Cask & Pottle
We found this to be a rather odd micropub. We arrived to find who I assumed to be the owner (most likely the guy mentioned in the reviews below) and about 4 other customers (all blokes).
Cask ales and ciders are listed on a board on the right-hand wall. For our visit, there was Burton Bridge Stairway To Heaven & Bridge Bitter, Front Row Day of the Jackler & Heritage HPA. Ciders were listed as Lilley's Rhubarb Cider, Mango Cider, Crazy Goat & Fire Dancer & Weston's Family Reserve. My wife ordered the Fire Dancer, only to be told that it wasn't actually on. Instead, she turned to the decent gin selection, ordering a blood orange one. The owner swiftly said that there was no ice and we said that was fine. He arrived back at the table with just my Jackler and no gin.
Sensing that trying again to order the gin could be an even more difficult process, we decided to let it be. Even though I was brought up in Staffordshire myself, there is quite a difference in accents across the county and somewhere our drinks order was lost in translation.
Seating is in typical micropub style with bench seating along the walls. Customers seemed to be much more friendly and not as strange as the owner. We soon got chatting to a guy who had moved to the area to work at the Bass brewery in Burton.
Despite the strange service, I did quite like this place. I'd imagine the owner creates some entertainment for the locals who like to see the look on strangers' faces as they attempt to communicate their order. Perhaps pointing and hand gestures would have been more appropriate, but I don't ever recall anywhere else in the UK where I've had quite so much difficulty placing an order.
On 11th September 2023
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Cask & Pottle
We also met a man more miserable than Soupy, I don't know whether he was the owner or the barman. Luckily for us one of the locals called in on our first knockings, Saturday afternoon visit, so the poor chap had to make some conversation. I noticed a photo of the seafront at Deal positioned on the wall near the cellar. It turned out the guy lived there for sometime, so maybe he was landlocked.
Four ales on stillage, Leatherbritches Y-Not, Flipside Sterling Pale, Gates Burton Brewery Damn, Do You Give One, and Backyard Coaltown Coffee Stout. We went for the Leatherbritches and the Gates Burton, both were in excellent condition and not overly priced.
On 6th June 2019
- rating: 8
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Soup Dragon left this review about Cask & Pottle
I had to wait until 5pm for it to re-open on a Friday after I found the neat but understated place. As stated, it is a small room (in cream and brown) with tall tables covering kegs and a cold room for the beer at the rear. There are WWII poster, a beer related mural and board games to play. A pump clip collection is also evident. The service was interesting, as I think I met a man more naturally miserable than me. It was busy with locals as soon as it opened. No TV or music. Beer saw 4 real ales, all unusual, and I had a very good New Brewery's Alchemy. A really nice place, a must in Tutbury.
On 11th August 2018
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Aqualung . left this review about Cask & Pottle
Having opened in 2013 this micropub is something of a veteran. It consists of a small rectangular room with high benches around the walls and six tall tables. There were a number of 9 gallon casks stashed under the tables and benches. There is a cold room for the beer and cider at the rear and no bar counter.
Four beers were available Froth Blowers Riverside Stout, Dancing Duck 22, Titanic Steerage and Nene Valley Hop Stash Simcoe.
I went for the Stout (£3.45) and Nene Valley beer (£3.40) which was unfined but wasn't a pint of murk. Both were in good condition. I also had a pork pie here which was large and tasty. I found this one and the Cross Keys by far the best options in Tutbury but on the day slightly preferred the Cross Keys.
On 5th February 2018
- rating: 8
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