St Albans Pub Review
Welcome to stalbanspubreview.co.uk - the complete guide to all St Albans city centre pubs.

All fifty three pubs in St Albans have been visited and reviewed between November 2006 and December 2007.
The aim was to complete the review within one year but due to circumstances beyond our control (pub closed for refurbishment) we reviewed the fifty third pub in the first week of December 2007.

The review team will regularly visit all these pubs and update the pub details when there are any significant changes.

This pub guide is split into sections:

The Pubs section contains a brief summary of every pub in St Albans and clicking on one of the pubs in the list will take you to a page giving full details of the pub.

Pub Map as expected shows the location of all of the pubs St Albans city centre.

The Review tells the story of the various stages the review team needed to go through to research this guide.

Pub Crawls lists recommended routes for visting the best pubs in St Albans.

Local Travel is a guide to how to get to your favourite pubs by public transport.

Finally Useful Links can be used to find out the weather in St Albans, local news etc.

The comments in this website are personal observations and others may have a completely different opinion. Please don't take the comments too seriously.

Each pub was rated out of ten for real ale, character, atmosphere and how trendy a pub is and an average was taken to get an overall score. The Scoring page explains how pubs have been rated and what the various categories mean.
The full results table shows the complete set of results for all of the pubs reviewed.
There was plenty of people willing to join us for a few beers and here is a complete list of all those who joined us on the various sections of the pub review:- the review team

This website has been constructed by handwriting html code into Windows Notepad so please don't expect anything too fancy!

Please send any comments that you may have regarding design or content to editor@stalbanspubreview.co.uk

Featured Pub of the Month
The Six Bells
Lovely old fashioned pub with low ceiling, beams and real fire. Five real ales and good home cooked food. Seperate dining room.

Latest Pub News:-

Jun 2009:
O'Neils Bar has closed and re-opened as Ryan's Bar. No real ale at the moment.

Wetherspoons Wine Festival 10 June - 28th June. All wines at house wine prices. Available at the Crosskeys and the Waterend Barn.

Blacksmiths Arms are now selling more real ales following a £100k make-over. Five hand pumps currently serve TT Landlord, Wells, Bombardier and possible guest ales. A three day beer festival starts on 25th June.

Harpenden Beer Festival 26 - 27th June. Harpenden's first ever beer festival will take place at the Public Hall in Southdown Rd, 11am to 10:30pm.

May 2009:
New management at the Lower Red Lion.

Apr 2009:
Ice Bar closed after being sold. Due to re-open in the summer under new ownership.

Wetherspoons Real Ale Festival 15 April - 4th May. Many ales from around the UK at the Crosskeys and the Waterend Barn.

New owners at the Great Northern.

National Cask Ale Week 6 - 13 April
Look out for special offers. For example the King William are selling cask ales for £1.50.

Fighting Cocks re-opened following minor refurbishment. Now selling Harveys Sussex Best.