The Griffin

100% right on
Its also known as the teachers common room, for large selction of pedagogues who are terrified in case you might be a parent. Irish folk night is fabulous. Enjoyed many a pint, very enjoyable, genial brewery couple. He wanted to set up a micro distillery but bureaucratics tied him up in red tape.
Try their Alco pop — its alcoholic milk called Moo

Quality beers and ales made on the premises friendly cosy and full of fantastic people. I reccomend Elderfizz !

Go here! If you like real ale and a funky local atmosphere, just go here! Until you’ve experienced it, it’s very hard to describe.
Put it this way, if this pub was in London they’d be queuing round the block to get in every night.
The actual building is 17thC and there’s been a pub on site for over three hundred years now. In it’s latest incarnation (of must be getting on for twenty years or so now) it’s also known as Milk Street Brewery.
Yup, it’s got it’s own brewery out back — and the beers are a small but select range of utterly delicious ales. The most famous is the aptly named ‘Beer’ beer, and Funky Money, also Zig-​Zag are highly reccomended too. I can’t wait to try this season’s new brew ‘Bobbled’, launching on 1^st December.
I don’t know how they manage to pack in so much. There are music nights, quiz nights, ‘event’ nights, and a children-​welcome policy of usually up top about 9pm. There’s even a small but delightful beer-​garden out back for smokers.
Buy the t-​shirt and drink the pint — and if you catch Sausage Sunday you’ll be glad you did. Great atmosphere in this Bohemian quarter of the old town (this happens to be my ‘local’ of choice, being under two minutes walk away. Yesssss!)
Highly reccomended!