Hobgoblin

Pub Details

Address
2 Broad Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 2BH
Telephone
(0118) 950 8119
Opening Times
Weekdays
11 - 11
Sundays
12 - 10.30

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Hobgoblin, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 2BH – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

No-frills pub with small panelled rooms, cheerful atmosphere, and eight quickly changing ales
With such a fine choice of up to eight real ales on handpump, this cheerfully basic town pub is as popular as ever. As well as three from the West Berkshire Brewery, the constantly changing choice might include Box Steam Tunnel Vision, Cottage Ambassador, Dark Star Summer Meltdown, Windsor & Eton Guardsman and Wooden Hand Cornish Mutiny. Pump clips cover practically every inch of the walls and ceiling of the simple bare-boards bar - a testament to the enormous number of brews that have passed through the pumps over the years (now over 6,378). They've also lots of different bottled beers, czech lager on tap, farm ciders, perry and country wines. Up a step is a small seating area, but the best places to sit are the three or four tiny panelled rooms reached by a narrow corridor leading from the bar; cosy and intimate, each has barely enough space for one table and a few chairs or wall seats, but they're very appealing if you're able to bag one; the biggest also manages to squeeze in a fireplace; piped music and TV.

Good Pub Guide Food

No food.

Awards

Good Pub Information

Children allowed in booths only

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (105 votes cast)

Reader Comments

paulhu

Saturday 28 May 2011 9:46:02 am



Popped in for a drink last night. Amazing selection of beers and on the walls and ceiling are past reminders of beers they have hosted. The beer was good but we don't recommend the white wine. But its nice to have a pub a real pub with just people enjoying beer with no machines/food and the rest of it. Long may it stay open like this!

HelenB64

Wednesday 13 April 2011 9:59:25 pm

We have visited the Hobgoblin on several occasions when visiting our son in Reading. Our dog Meg has always been welcome too, apart from on our last visit in January, when they initially said we couldn't bring her in, then they grudgingly 'allowed' us to take her to the back of the pub.
On previous visits other dogs have been there too, and we have always asked if she was allowed in.
Looks like we will have to find another watering hole. I'm sure this was mentioned as a dog-friendly establishment.




glensman

Friday 21 November 2008 11:30:01 am

Strange, poky little pub with nooks and crannies and the smallest snugs known to man. However get yourself ensconsewd in one on a winter evening and there is no more pleasant way to wile away the hours

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