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Last updated: March 2nd 2010

Overview

  • Beer served through handpulls
  • Beer served direct from the barrel by gravity
  • Real draught cider available
  • newspapers available
  • Pub games
  • Pub has its own car park
  • Oversized, lined glasses in regular use
  • Dogs are welcome
  • Beer garden or other outside drinking area
  • Pub is accessible to disabled customers
  • Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for route details)
  • Railway station within about a mile (see the public transport tab for details)

76 St Helen's St, IP4 2LA

grid reference: TM 170 445

previously known as: Tap & Spile, Dove

listed building grade: II

tel: 01473 211270

website: http://www.dovestreetinn.co.uk/

opening hours: (as of 24/12/2008)

12-10.45 (last admissions)


regular real ales: Adnams Bitter & Broadside, Crouch Vale Brewer's Gold, at least one mild; usually two

guest beers:

An ever-changing array of guest ales both on hand-pump and gravity dispense. Look at the boards on the ceiling to see what's available.

A wide range of beers is always available on both handpump and on gravity. Three highly popular beer festivals now being held each year.

This popular three room pub has a small front bar, a large, low ceilinged back room with oak beams and a lively but friendly main bar. A new conservatory area was opened at the end of April 2009. The pub also offers covered seating in an outside heated area to rear.

Beer range varies with regular local Milds, seasonal ales, unusual beers for area, dark Porters, Stouts and matured Adnams Tally Ho featured together with many bitters, ciders and some imported beers. Pub uses oversized glasses. Food varies from hot and cold snacks to pies, curries, stews and vegetarian options. Summer bar-b-ques. Various buses pass the pub including 2, 5, 15 or 66 (from town centre or railway station you may need to alight on nearby Woodbridge road).

A micro-brewery is planned to run alongside the pub, launching 2010 and en-suite accommodation is also to be provided soon.

Disabled toilet.


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Local licensing authority for Ipswich is Ipswich Borough Council

Note

A former Tap & Spile (1992-98) the building has been much improved and renovated by current owners and it has been Suffolk CAMRA pub of the year in both 2006 and 2008, and has also made it to the top four in CAMRA's national competition. Also named best Cask Ale pub in the country in The Publican's 2009 Food & Drink Awards.

Tap & Spile was created as a national chain of themed and heavily branded pubs - created from existing selected pubs usually owned by the former Pubmaster pub group. Initially these pubs were very popular and able to offer a very wide range of real ales though in later years the beer range was increasingly restricted. In Suffolk there were just 3 pubs - in Ipswich, Felixstowe (Walton) and Woodbridge.

All information is presented here in good faith and believed to be correct at the time of writing.
The addresses of old pubs (numbers and sometimes even street names) may not always coincide with the building's current address (if it's still standing), as street names sometimes change, as do numbering schemes

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