Brunswick Inn

8/26/2007 4:50:48 AM, sunday, august 26, 2007
An excellent brewpub, producing some interesting beers, regularly including a few darker and stronger examples. Nice multi-roomed building. I hear the food is quite good as well. Very close to the railway station and the Alexandra Hotel. With around 6 guest ales from various breweries and around 6 of their onw, it’s a place where finding new and interesting beers will be very easy indeed and comfortable, welcoming enough to spend a few hours. Excellent.

2/13/2007 4:23:26 PM, tuesday, february 13, 2007 [ Updated wednesday, may 07, 2008 ]
Everything a backstreet English Pub should be hardly detectable from the outside warm and welcoming inside lots of space a fine array of beers, including their own. Service can be slow at times, but there is lots of atmosphere to absorb. This is definitely my favorite Derby pub.

11/1/2006 6:48:11 AM, wednesday, november 01, 2006
Visited frequently as my dad lives close to Derby Great building reminds me a little of how Bennetts (Wine Vaults) Used to be in Banbury. Has a good selection of beers, though had to take one back on last visit as not up to scratch, service was also a bit slack, maybe I’ve just visited it at the wrong time, on both occasions I’ve been on a Saturday afternoon.

7/8/2006 11:09:59 AM, saturday, july 08, 2006
Took this one in in a break from the Derby Beer Festival. Very nice pub, multi roomed. Large selection of ales, including from their own brewery. Food was good, nice home cooking, took a little while to come, but you expect this, I suppose. Staff were really friendly, advised me on what was good, and were very clued up.

2/27/2006 11:51:40 AM, monday, february 27, 2006 [ Updated monday, february 27, 2006 ]
My first port of call on the recent Derby crawl with haddonsman. Impressive old building which was in a poor state of repair at one time but thankfully restored. Lots of old wooden fittings in the interior, plenty of rooms. Beer selection is very good, just look at the blackboard to find a good selection of their own beers plus plenty of guests.

11/23/2005 1:45:10 AM, wednesday, november 23, 2005
Building wise this place is fabulous, once under threat in the 1980’s, it is a multi roomed Victorian classic with ornate bar area and wood panelled rooms. The brewpub aspect gives variety and long may this continue despite the beer not being in great condition on our visit. Just the place for an afternoons convivial drinking.

10/7/2005 3:01:02 AM, friday, october 07, 2005
An absolute gem of a pub. Fantastic old building with different rooms, great atmosphere, large selection of real ales including their own, traditional cider, great pork scratchings - Fantastic

7/14/2005 6:55:27 PM, thursday, july 14, 2005
A classic pub at the end of the best preserved terrace of railway cottages in the country. An architectural gem. A good selection of guest ales as well as their own stuff. Didn’t eat. Slow service when I first arrived but that was because I was a bit slow off the mark out of the station and plenty of others en route to the Derby Beer Festival got there before me. Overall, a fantastivc place.

3/6/2005 6:22:37 PM, sunday, march 06, 2005
Trev’s gone but the brews remain; a good half dozen Brunswick beers always on, decent guests, trad cider in the cellar, busy bar area with lots of rooms running off it (including a no smoking room), knockout lunchtime grub, used to be one-way entry on match days but best avoided when the footies on, popular place close to railway station, just round the corner from Alex and five minute walk from Smithfield so well worth a trip.

2/26/2005 11:47:14 AM, saturday, february 26, 2005
Brew pub. Several rooms & an upstairs with occational bands. Selection of reasonably prices own beers & a good range of changing guest ales too. Budvar on draught. Usually a trad cider on draught. Decent afternoon food selection Can be busy on match days.