A celebrated Twickenham real-ale pub with some fifteen hand-pulls – a genuine temple for beer lovers, on CAMRA’s national inventory
The Sussex Arms holds sixteen hundred reviews and a 4.5 – a strong score on a large sample – and it is one of the most celebrated real-ale pubs in the whole of this survey: a genuine beer-lover’s temple in Twickenham, famous for its enormous range of cask ales, and honoured on CAMRA’s national inventory of historic pub interiors.
The temple of ale
The Sussex Arms is, above all, a genuine paradise for the beer lover – and a celebrated one. Its great glory is its astonishing range of cask ale: some fifteen hand-pulls dispensing an ever-changing array of ales from independent breweries across the country, alongside a fine range of ciders and perries and a good number of keg lines besides. This is a serious, wonderful, celebrated beer offering – the kind of range that draws beer lovers from far and wide, a genuine destination for the connoisseur of cask ale. Part of the respected Big Smoke family of pubs, and just a stone’s throw from the Twickenham Fine Ales brewery, the Sussex Arms is a genuine temple of great beer – the huge cask range, the fine ciders, the ever-changing choice, the serious and celebrated commitment to great ale. For the beer lover, it is a genuine pilgrimage-worthy destination.
The historic interior
The Sussex Arms is more than just a great beer pub – it is also a genuine piece of pub heritage, honoured on CAMRA’s National Inventory of pub interiors of special national historic importance. This is a real distinction – the National Inventory recognises the relatively few pubs across the country whose interiors are of genuine historic significance, and the Sussex Arms (rebuilt in the inter-war period, and sensitively restored in 2011) earns its place among them. It has genuine period character – including some lovely attractive features, such as the colourful leaded glazing in the shape of shields in the front windows, and the handsome period fittings. It is a pub of real character and heritage, warmly and sensitively restored, combining its serious beer credentials with genuine historic charm. There is a warm and cosy real fire, and a large garden besides – the whole warm, characterful, heritage-rich package.
The beer-lover’s welcome
Beyond the beer and the heritage, the Sussex Arms is celebrated for its warm, welcoming, characterful atmosphere – the genuine, unpretentious, beer-loving welcome of a proper pub. It is the kind of place beer lovers cherish – warm and friendly, unpretentious and genuine, serious about its beer but relaxed and welcoming in its atmosphere, with good pub food, a large garden, a warm fire, regular acoustic music, and the whole warm character of a genuine, beloved, beer-focused local. Its strong score across a large sample reflects this genuine and celebrated appeal – a superb, beloved, characterful beer pub, cherished by beer lovers and honoured for its heritage. There is real warmth and quality in the whole thing – the celebrated beer, the historic interior, the warm and genuine welcome. It is exactly the kind of pub that this survey most admires – a genuine, characterful, beer-loving temple of a pub.
Between its celebrated cask range, its nationally-recognised historic interior, and its warm, genuine, beer-loving welcome, the Sussex Arms is a genuine star of this survey – one of the finest and most celebrated real-ale pubs in the whole area. Its strong score across a large sample marks it as a genuinely superb and well-loved pub. The Prat’s desk, in beer-lover’s heaven, works happily along the fifteen hand-pulls, admires the shield-glazed windows, and raises a most appreciative pint to the great Sussex Arms.
The pub
A strong, celebrated real-ale pub doing a good 4.5 across a large sample – the Sussex Arms, a genuine beer-lover’s temple with some fifteen hand-pulls, honoured on CAMRA’s national inventory of historic interiors.
Verdict
Strong, celebrated, and a genuine beer-lover’s temple – the Sussex Arms, one of the finest real-ale pubs in the survey, with a historic interior to match its magnificent beer range.
Go to the Sussex Arms in Twickenham for one of the great beer selections in the area, and enjoy the whole package – some fifteen hand-pulls of independent ales, a nationally-recognised historic interior, and a warm, genuine, beer-loving welcome.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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