Cider Pub Guide to Berkshire
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The guide to pubs selling cider in Berkshire.
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Aldworth
- The Bell Inn, Aldworth, Reading, RG8 9SE. Tel: 01635 578272.
This classic, award-winning village pub is in CAMRA's National Inventory, and sells Upton cider from Oxfordshire.
Datchet
- The Royal Stag, The Green, Datchet, SL3 9JH Tel: 01753 584231
Addlestones on hand pump. Also stocks bottled kriek and framboise as well as a good range of ales.
Henley
- The Lamb Satwell , Rotherfield Greys , Henley on Thames . RG9 4QZ . 01491 628482 . Country gastropub owned by Anthony Worrall Thompson . Luscombe Organic Devon Cider in bottles available . Nice food aswell !
Newbury
- The Monument (Tap and Spile), 57 Northbrook Street, Newbury RG14 1AN. Tel: 01635 41964 (map | guides)
Rock pub on Newbury's main drag. Westons Old Rosie. Cheap and cheerful pub grub.
Pangbourne
- Garlands Organic, 6 Reading Road, Pangbourne RG8 7LY (0118 984 4770; website)
Deli selling various bottled ciders - Dunkertons, Sheppys, Westons.
Reading
- Hobgoblin, 2 Broad St, Reading RG1 2BH
Weston's Herefordshire County Perry on draught, and Old Rosie bag-in-a-box. A rare 'real pub' in central Reading.
- The Hop Leaf, 163 Southampton Street, Reading, RG1 2QZ (0118 931 4700)
Weston's Old Rosie (and Stowford Press). Outstanding drinkers' pub a short distance south from Reading city centre - cross the Kennet on Bridge Street (at the western end of the Oracle), pass under the dual carriageway, and continue along Southampton Street up the hill.
- The Monk's Retreat, 163 Friar Street, Reading RG1 1HE (0118 950 7592)
Wetherspoons with draught Weston's Old Rosie. (There are two other Wetherspoons in Reading and one in Caversham... details to come!)
- The Retreat,8 St John's Street, Reading ,RG1 4EH . 01189571593 . (www.retreatpub.co.uk)
Relaxed, tiny backstreet pub with two draught ciders (on our April 2006 visit, these were Prior's Tipple and Westons Old Rosie) and one draught perry (Double Vision). Also Westons Organic and a Norman champagne-corked cider from Bayeux in bottles. Apparently the meeting place for the local bikers' party, but you wouldn't believe it from the look of the pub. Recommended.
Slough
- The Rose and Crown, 312 High St., Slough. (01753 52114)
Town centre pub which often has real cider available, especially in the summer months. Cider varies - phone to check before visiting. Ross cider and Watkins on offer October 2007
Theale
- Wickcroft Farm Shop, Pangbourne Road, Theale, READING, Berks RG7 5EA Tel: 0118 930 5159.
A new venture concentrating on supplying local produce - meat, vegetables, fruit, bread, jams, etc., plus bottled beers from Butts, Rebellion, Old Luxters and Chiltern, and occasionally ciders. Also has a herd of donkeys. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Roy Bailey
Twyford
- The Bird In Hand Bath Road , Knowl Hill . RG10 9UP . 01628 826748 .
Located on the A4 between Maidenhead and Twyford this popular pub has a good reputation for food and has real ales available at all times . Regularly has a guest real cider on through the spring /summer months . May 2008
Waltham St. Lawrence
- The Bell Waltham St. Lawrence, Berks RG10 0JJ, Tel: 0118-934 1788.
Splendid old village pub which, in addition to around 5 real ales, has one or sometimes two real ciders down in the cellar. I'll find out which ones next time I cycle there. Richard Underwood
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