Dog and Doublet

Wife and visited on a Friday afternoon (9th Mar 2018). This is a town pub in decline, needs some love and money spent on it. Only one other customer, two hand-pulls in use, lass behind the bar was friendly and chatty, we had two halves of the cask offerings and a bottle of St Bernardus 6 each. Roaring wood fire, plastic buckets and rubbish stacked in corners, poorly maintained stairs down to the keg urinals. It just gave off a 'couldn't care less' sort of feeling, beers were fine though.

Thought I'd rated this a while ago. Located fairly close to the Civic and Little Civic, both of which no longer seem to attract the same level of bands as when I used to go to gigs here late 90s, but if you were to see a cover band or comedian here Dog & Doublet would be the place to go beforehand. Don't expect too much on draft, a lot of taps dedicated to crowd-pleasing lagers and guiness, though my last visit saw a nice Abbeydale APA on keg, a couple of regional cask. Bottle selection has more variation, some nice well-chosen modern craft, some Rogue, some interesting UK cider. Decor is decent, some comfortable large chairs and sofas. Worth a look.

Visited on 13th May 2017. Town centre pub not far from Slaters, two rooms and a little patio out back. Decor is OK, fairly standard modern pub decor, maybe a little sparse. Beer range was OK with 4 cask beers on from local brewers, beer in decent condition, prices OK. Service OK. Reasonable place but not the best in town.

I know what a singlet is, so I’m guessing a doublet is just the two piece version. The dog bit is plain enough. Two room place, back room has a small stage. House ale is from Wales, oddly. Decent enough place.

Unexpectedly good pub in Wolverhampton city centre, not far from St Peter’s Church. Despite the identikit pubco feel, the selection is pretty decent. Four real ales (two from Purple Moose on my visit) are complemented by Brooklyn and Freedom lagers on tap plus about 50 bottles: a good if predictable Belgian cabinet, a smattering of dependable US and a German or three. You may not want to linger for too terribly long but it’s good for a swift half at the very least.

Opened summer 2014. On my first visit the day after opening they’d nearly run out of beer & only had one or two cask beers on. However, returned several months later to find 4 cask beers, all from regional breweries and well kept. Fridges were also well stocked with international bottles, albeit nothing very new or exciting. There’s an outside courtyard at the back, which is surrounded by tall buildings and isn’t very pretty, although they’ve tried their best. There is an outside bar too, but it wasn’t in operation on either occasion I visited (both during the day/early evening). There are a couple of big screens & a stage area which, coupled with posters advertising DJs until 3 am some Saturdays, leads me to believe this isn’t somewhere I would want to visit on a Friday or Saturday night. Not a great venue, but if you’re in central Wolverhampton your choice is limited!