Watermill inn & brewing co. Lake district

[Yorkslad]

Just wondering if anyone has been to this place? I saw it on the internet and decided to book a room for a couple of nights with the fiance. Got home today after 2 nights there and it was brill. Proper English pub, real log fires, big meals, beamed ceilings and stone walls.
Plenty of Ales on at the bar, approx 15, quite a few were their own ales brewed in the pub! These were by far the most popular and every one of them tasted lovely! The pub has won award after award from CamRa, summer pubs, pub guides etc etc, and the walls are just plastered with the plaques and certificates!
They also sell merchandise relating to their home brewed ales, glasses, t-shirts, teddys, pump clips, their home brewed ales bottled etc.
Very welcoming pub and very dog friendly. We will be returning in summer!
Check the website Watermill inn, cumbria.

 

[adrianmole72]

Yes, I stayed there with my brother last year - great place, good atmosphere, great food !!

We walked into Windermere at lunch, then came back about 2 oclock, and had a good few beers, a bit of dinner, and some more beers !

Would definately go again.. :thumb: :

Stephen

 

[Baz Chaz]

We're lucky enough to live 15 minutes away and anyone thinking of a weekend jaunt, Yes its certainly worth the visit :

Its @ Ings between Kendal and Windermere just off the main A591 road :idea:

http://www.watermillinn.co.uk/

Also just a couple of minutes nearer Kendal in the village of Staveley again just off the A591 is Hawkshead Brewery, moved from Hawkshead to part of the old mill @ Stavely, also worth a visit :drink:

http://www.hawksheadbrewery.co.uk/

Two establishments well worth visiting within a mile and a half of each other :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Yorkslad]

Wish i lived near this pub baz chaz! In leeds where i live theres no pubs like this, they're full of idiots and only serve the typical ****, stella, carlsberg, carling etc. Well im only 24 and got me head screwed on so when iv made my fortune i'll buy a house near the lakes and enjoy a proper life, peoples ambitions round here are to pop kids out and claim a free life from the government!

 

[sib67]

Wish i lived near this pub baz chaz! In leeds where i live theres no pubs like this, they're full of idiots and only serve the typical ****, stella, carlsberg, carling etc. Well im only 24 and got me head screwed on so when iv made my fortune i'll buy a house near the lakes and enjoy a proper life, peoples ambitions round here are to pop kids out and claim a free life from the government!

Whereabouts do you live Yorkslad? There's plenty of pubs in Leeds serving excellent ales if you know where to go.

 

[kendalcottages]

We live just 10 minutes away (if that). It's a great little pub and deserving of its success.

 

[leedsbrew]

cheers for the heads up on that place YL

Wish i lived near this pub baz chaz! In leeds where i live theres no pubs like this, they're full of idiots and only serve the typical ****, stella, carlsberg, carling etc. Well im only 24 and got me head screwed on so when iv made my fortune i'll buy a house near the lakes and enjoy a proper life, peoples ambitions round here are to pop kids out and claim a free life from the government!

Whereabouts do you live Yorkslad? There's plenty of pubs in Leeds serving excellent ales if you know where to go.

I was about to say the same!

Any of the Leeds Brewery pubs http://www.leedsbrewery.co.uk/

Mr foleys on the Headrow

North Bar (or any of their other outlets) http://www.northbar.com/

http://www.markettowntaverns.co.uk/ have Arcadia in Headingley

Maybe they don't have to romantic, atmos of the lakes but they are all knocking out cracking beer!

 

[Yorkslad]

Im sure there are places in leeds that are okay, but as for leeds brewery pubs, they are modern style pubs serving posh nosh, just like any other in leeds. And the kinda pubs that get snooty about brewing their own ales.
I like proper english pubs and inns, the pubs that are genuinly welcoming, serve proper english meals that are big and piled on the plate, not potatoes and carrots that are counted out and placed to look pretty!
Not many proper pubs about these days, the watermill is one of the good ones, hence why the owners are very successful.