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Requested be closed with reason - For sale: Closed pre-Christmas 2022 and advertised as available for purchase. Facebook page inactive and website taken down.
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John Barleycorn, Reading
Goring
Postal town: Reading
RG8 9DP
Served areas
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about John Barleycorn
Another corner pub in Goring and another Marston's pub. This one looks and feels older than the Catherine Wheel, but it is actually the Catherine Wheel that is the oldest of the two.
On entering, a door to the left leads to a lounge and restaurant. I chose the right-hand door which takes you into a bar and a small games room containing a bar billiards table.
The bar is at the rear of the room. There is an outdoor courtyard beyond. Service was friendly, with ales listed on a small board on the bar (handpulls are on the lounge side). As with the Catherine Wheel, the regular beers are Brakspear Gravity & Ringwood Forty Niner. The guest here was Eagle Bombardier.
Poor beer selection, but a nice interior full of character nonetheless.
On 2nd April 2022
- rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about John Barleycorn
A traditional whitewashed two room pub, with lounge/dining to the left and public bar to the right. Three ales available, two Ringwood and a Brakspear. The handpumps, as mentioned below, are only visible on the lounge side of the bar so if you go in the right hand-side you’ll need to ask. Ale quality has been a bit hit-and-miss. Quarry tiled flooring in the public bar, with a random layout of seating with rickety pew style seats, thrones and small tables. The fire was not lit but a log shed in the garden indicates that it will be at some point. A bar billiards table is located in room up a step off to the right. Go up a different step (needing to get past the inevitable local blocking the way) in order to access the nicely-kept grassed rear garden. Not as much atmosphere or quirky charm as the Catherine Wheel – the interior is bright and over-lit, plus the paintwork is tatty. Basic pub grub offered and the pub is dog-friendly (public bar). Accommodation available. Bogs were well-scrubbed.
On 22nd September 2015
- rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about The John Barleycorn Inn
A back-street local with a proper country village atmosphere about it. The central entrance gives a choice of lounge and restaurant to the left, public bar to the right. I chose the latter, which has three small rooms, a sort of bar snug towards the rear with servery from the three hand pumps which face the lounge bar, the main room with a fairly modern-looking (20th century rather than 17th) brick fireplace and the small room up a couple of steps in the corner of the building, where there are a bar billiards table, two up-turned barrels, a modern pine dresser featuring commemorative Bells whisky bottles and two handsome wooden armchairs. There are terracotta floor tiles and cream painted walls throughout.
There was a friendly welcome from landlord and locals, and the beer was excellent: Brakspears Bitter at £3.20 a pint, plus Oxford Gold and Ringwood Fortyniner. Certainly the best of the Goring and Streatley pubs that I tried on my recent visit.
On 11th May 2012
- rating: 8
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : Yes last updated 15 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 04 August 2014 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : No last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes - Public bar only - last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Function Room : No last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 10 October 2013 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No last updated 22 September 2015 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 24 May 2020 by ROB Camra
