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Red Lion

Added by BENJO [15491 pints]

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Red Lion
63 High St
Swanage
Swanage
BH19 2LY
01929423533
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Permanent Real Ales

Ringwood - Bitter
Palmers - Copper Ale

Red Lion has 4 hand pumps

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Beer quality - 10/10
Beer selection - 10/10
Atmosphere - 10/10
Price - 8/10
Overall Opinion - 10/10
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This is a great pub with everything you could want.The pub does B/B at good prices, and has a resterant and two bars.There is a carpark which is locked at midnight and an outside drinking area.The pub runs a beer festival which is well surported.
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Added by BENJO - 2010

Swanage is a great little place to spend a couple of days with most of the pubs serving good cask beers and i think the Red Lion is possibly the best.We spent an evening there and tried all four of the cask beers.There are four hand pumps but they are not used,they just have the brewery pump clips on them, while the beer comes stright from the cold room at the back of the bar.I am not used to beer being dispensed this way,i thought that it would go flat very quickly but the beers were real top class.I thought the .beer of the night was Palmers copper ale.We are planing a return visit in September.