At a time when many pubs are closing,  Abbey Ales own pub group - Abbey Inns - is proving that not all pubs are struggling.The Star on The Paragon, which already appears as one of just three Bath pubs in the Good Pub Guide and is a regular entry in the Good Beer Guide, has now reached the final of a competition featuring favourite watering holes in the Bath Life magazine.

This year also sees the Star’s 250th birthday and celebrations are being planned for later in the year starting with a ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ charity day on the 16th September.

 

Manager Paul Waters said” I am extremely proud that readers of Bath Life magazine have voted for the Star it really is an oasis and the favourite watering hole of many locals and  visitors to Bath.With no games machines, no music, no pool table and no cordon bleu food menu to distract the taste buds  The Star Inn still shines on in Bath.”

 

 The Coeur De Lion is also celebrating with a silver award in the ‘Bath in Bloom’ competition plus an entry in 2010 Good Beer Guide, just one of eleven Bath pubs in the 2010 guide whilst its new dining room is proving very popular with locals and the many tourists who visit the pub situated in the heart of the Georgian city  in Northumberland Place.

 

Abbey Inns Manager Michelle Spence said ” The entry of the Coeur into the Good Beer Guide is really something special as there are so many excellent pubs in Bath. I like to think that its our choice of unusual local beers coupled with Abbey Ales own beers which brings the drinkers to Baths smallest pub.  

 

The Assembly Inn just off the city centre in Alfred Street is a new addition to the brewery’s estate and is proving very popular with sports fans by showing rugby and soccer on its big screen.

 

Alan Morgan MD of Abbey Ales Baths only brewery said “The Assembly is a new style venture for us we have never had TV in our pubs up to now but with the large sports following the pub attracts, particularly with rugby supporters and Bath rugby followers we decided that it was too good an opportunity to miss.” 

 

Founded in 1997, Abbey Ales is the first and only brewery in the historic City of Bath for over fifty years, and is the initiative of experienced brewery sales and marketing manager Alan Morgan.

Bellringer is the only cask beer continuously produced at the Abbey Brewery, a golden 4.2% abv best bitter.

Successfully launched at the Bath CAMRA beer festival in October 1997 Bellringer is now the top selling cask bitter in the World Heritage City of Bath and is as popular with the many visitors to the Georgian City as it is with Bathonians.

The  brewery has also recently introduced a traditional Somerset cider to its range and Hells Bells at 6.5% abv is already appearing and proving popular in many of Bath’s leading pubs.

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