Latest reviews from Egham
| 74 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Visited many times over the years, during their beer festivals.“ |
| 74 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Visited for the March 2018 beer festival. Clearly a very popular and well run festival. Nice people running it and serving too. Friendly crowd. Definitely plan to return.“ |
| 58 /100 Red Lion (Bar) 53 HIGH STREET “Dropped in here prior to the Egham Beer Festival to meet a mate, 30/03/18. Attractive and large red bricked and tiled building - looks every old worlde. Inside it's been refurbished in the typical dark wood and leather style favoured by many pubs at the moment. The bar is to the left, with a drinking area to the right. However beyond this the tables all appeared to be set for dining. Quite on a bank holiday afternoon. The pub drinking area was essentially full, other than some uncomfortable looking bar stools, but the clientele were pretty Quite, most of the 10 or so watching whichever sport was on. In terms of booze you had six you and pumps and then some standard keg macros. I'd not seen a Bowland beer before and as well as the regular Harvey's Sussex Best there was a Windsor & Eton offering, alongside some standard Greene King, Sharps and Fuller's beers. They advertise a Craft Fridge but it mainly seemed to contain Punk IPA and Swedish ciders. Nice enough pub and the Bowman Boxer Blonde was not on here yet, but not somewhere to go to unless you happen to be in town.“ |
| 76 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Visited for the Nov 2016 fest. Friendly and unassuming venue. The range of beers on the bar suggest it’d be worth visiting on non-festival days. Good to meet some Ratebeerers for the first time. My only complaints would be it on occasions took a while before the volunteers realised they had a customer and the lack of intstructions - ie ordered food an no-one told me I had to go outside to collect it. Top marks to the barman who gave me a free beer, that turned out to be 0.5%.“ |
| 74 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Great little lounge with very comfortable chairs and sofas. The staff is very helpful and just nice people to talk to. Good cask beers on inside and for festivals also out the back. Beers were in good condition. Great little festival :-)“ |
| 76 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Visited many times over the years but only for the excellent beer festivals that take place three times a year, so it would be a bit inappropriate to base the scoring on those. However, they do have 8-10 handpumps on the bar so I’m sure it would be worth a look at "normal" times were it more conveniently located. It’s very much a members’ club, not a pub, but CAMRA members are admitted. It’s located in a quiet residential area and isn’t going to win any architectural awards, being a boxy modern-ish (60’s?) building. Funtional enough though. The welcome is always warm and friendly.“ |
| 78 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Kind of a private club with a nice english style lounge and a nice beer garden. Have visited for Egham Beer Festival, which is a great event.“ |
| 70 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Visited during the beer festivals, got there early and secured a valuable table.
Token system works well, great range of beers from new breweries, gravity dispensed in the main and in good nick. A few on the bar too. Not been there during normal service so would probably drop a few marks. Beer Festival is well supported by Raters and worth the effort to get to it.“ |
| 74 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Slightly out of the way club but well worth the effort to get there. There is a large, single room with 70’s furnishings, but this adds to the ambiance. I’ve only done the beer festivals here but they are well organised, friendly and certainly well worth going to for the beer choice.“ |
| 74 /100 111 SPRING RISE “A private club with a nice lounge and outdoor area that throws great beer festivals. They have a decent bar with some taps and a nice seating area. Their events should not be missed.“ |
| 78 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Home of the legendary beer festivals which particularly showcase new brewers in the south-east of England. A friendly and unassuming place, unexceptional but for the beer. Long may it continue.“ |
| 72 /100 111 SPRING RISE “The thrice yearly Egham beer festivals are legendary and now I know why - they are a triumph, with 70 or 80 beers on offer over the course of four days and perhaps 35 or 40 available at any one time. The place is very much a club rather than a bar or a pub and I had the impression that the beer festival attendees weren’t so very different from the usual clientele. The club is in a 1960s style building in a residential area. A quarter of the inside is given over to a full sized snooker table and there’s a small stage in one corner of the main bar. On the bar there are 10 taps which I’m told always serve local and not so local microbrews at very good prices (less than £3 a pint). The beers brought in for the festival are kept outside, where there’s a blackboard with the full list showing what’s on, what’s running low and what’s coming next. All in all, it’s a super place - cosy and homely with great beers. What more could you want!
(Last visited 19 April 2014).“ |
| 74 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Visited this pub during their beer festival, easter 2013.
Nice cosy pub / club house. Very friendly staff and they did a great job organizing Egham Beer Festival. There is a small beergarden with a bbq, so thats what we had for lunch :-).
Would say that the place is worth a visit, for sure I will be back for another Egham Beer Festival if possible :-)“ |
| 68 /100 111 SPRING RISE “Have popped in here a number of times over the last 2 or 3 years and this review is based on a normal days trading and not one of the excellent festivals they stage (3 times per year).
Firstly it is a members club but if you show a CAMRA card or a copy of the GBG you can sign yourself in.
Anyone is welcome during the festivals no form of ID (or book!) required.
It’s not the prettiest of buildings more functional as you’d expect from a club, think late 60’s/early 70’s flat roof affair, one big big room with snooker and pool table, seating around the edge and a medium sized bar to the right as you enter.dance floor area opposite the bar when required.
Outside there is a small to medium courtyard with wooden bench seating, where the smokers hang out and also where the bulk of beers during the festivals are served.
Locals seem friendly enough, they are used to beery visitors so whilst you might not get folks engaging you in conversation you won’t get glared at !
Service is decent enough but on occasion you might get regulars being served ahead of you but fair enough - they pay a membership and I don’t !
Beer range is the thing here, 8 real ales from largely local (neighbouring counties) micro’s and always well kept. 3 or 4 real ciders usually on at the bar, plus the usual macro swill.
Can’t beat the vfm £2.50 a pint - many thanks!
Whilst you may pick up a few new rates I wouldn’t come here especially unless you are in the area, but the festivals are well worth coming too!“ |
