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ONE PUB ONLY?
Golden Eagle
CRAWLING FROM RAILWAY STATION TO THE GROUND?
There are plenty of pubs alomng the High Street so I would start at Sippers and end up at the Golden Eagle
SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT?
Strugglers
CHANGES FROM GUIDE
Morning Star - Home fans only
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21 High St.LN5 8BD T 01522 521058 W www.goldeneagle.org.uk
G Tracy Harris
F Sandwiches from 11
SP SK
O 11 to 11, 11 to 10.30 Sun
The Golden Eagle is one of my favourite pre match pubs. On every occasion over the last ten years or so the pub has had a different story to tell, each involving comfortable chat and real warmth. Two small bars, wood - panelled and comfortable, describe the architecture. Crowded, bubbly in one bar especially if a lunchtime game is on, quiet, reflective and thoughtful, describes the locals in the smaller front bar. Don't come late on matchday if you want a seat. Loads of Lincoln City memorabilia, programmes etc. are found here and often their will be an affectionate chat about the plight of Lincoln City and Boston derbies.
UPDATE: Tracy has taken over the management of the Golden Eagle but is hardly new to the pub. The pub will have a sympathetic make over in the next year, the pub garden being already completed. The function room is also available for events.
BWV 17.10.04: Abbeydale Matins, Bateman XXXB, Castle Rock Harvest Ale, Dent A Pint of the Ewesual, Everards Beacon, Bass, Okells Bitter, Weston's Old Rosie
BWV 9.12.05: Bateman XXXB, Castle Rock Harvest Pale, Hadrian and Border Bitter Blues, Hemlock, Everards Beacon, Original, Nethergate Old Growler, Oldershaw’s High Dyke, Theakston’s Old Peculier | |  Sippers
26 Melville St LN5 7HW T 01522 527612
G John Gilbert
F Traditional pub food 12 to 2
SP TV JB P
O 11 to 11, 12 to 11 Sun.
With rooms arranged around a central bar, this pub has a feel of a quality tap room. With a regular dark beer on sale and staff who patently know, as well as love their beer, the pub is rightly popular with locals and visitors alike. The pub has no pretensions to anything other than a great drinking place. The best time to visit is in early evening when Lincoln City fanzine writers, those going for a train and the genuine Imps who know real ale, head back into town to mix with away fans.”Perhaps because of its location it has a regular clientele that have made an extra effort to get there. Yet it is so close to the station that it would be the ideal to visit on arrival and departure from Lincoln.” Sippers is a top boozer in a town with many good pubs. The difference here is the great welcome you get from the locals.
UPDATE: Dave is now running the pub and real ale continues to be most important. A refurbishment is likely over the next year.
BWV 17.10.04: Denton Wheat Porter Hop Back Summer Lightning, John Smith’s Cask Bitter, Timothy Taylor Landlord.
BWV 9.12.05: Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Hop Back GFB, Milestone Donner and Blitzed, John Smith’s Cask Bitter, Vale Wychert The Original | |  Strugglers Inn
83 Westgate LN1 3BG T 01522 535023
G Alan Watts
F Homely fresh cooked food by Brenda the pub housewife. 12 to 2.30 Tue - Sat.
MP
O 11 to 11 Mon.- Wed. 12 to 12 midnight Thu. - Sat. 12 to 11.30 Sun.
Strugglers is a typical town back - street boozer located in a fantastic tourist location, directly beneath the castle walls. The pub, Alan the Landlord, and the regulars, are the stuff of Lincoln legends. On my afternoon visit the first impression was that the locals and the Guvn'or are in a continual contest to out do each other on the banter front. I was glad not to receive “the customary cheer” as described by the spoof version of the Lincolnshire Echo that perfectly describes the characters that frequent this top notch hostelry. The pub is always busy. The beer, especially the Bass, is top quality and Brenda’s food so popular that the menu is often quickly emptied of the specially prepared meals. The door to the award winning marquee / garden says “like Alan, it swings both ways.” He and his locals are typical real ale fans with a healthy disregard for those who wish to talk rather than sup ale. It is totally spotless, quirky and thoroughly entertaining for this occasional earwigger who was left in perfect peace to indulge myself with the ales. The right hand bar is a beautiful little snug, the left hand a longer bar; I wondered what the summer tourists would make of this typically English eccentricity. No doubt they would, like I did, merely take it as just part of life's rich tapestry.
BWV 9.12.05: Bass Draught, Bateman Dark Mild, Black Sheep Bitter, Fuller’s London Pride, Greene King Abbot, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Young’s Bitter | |  Three Horseshoes
Lower High St, Waddington, LN5 9RF T 01522 720448
G Bob Walton
CP TV JB P D
O 12 to 3.30 Mon – Thu,. 11 to 11 Fri. –Sat,. 12 to 11 Sun.
This is a proper village pub which has two rooms and a large garden. One bar is long and narrow, laid out to encourage people to talk to each other across the tables. The other is a small snug with TV and sporting trophies. The community nature comes to the fore through Bob’s support of pub teams and pub games; football, cricket, fishing teams and top notch ale; the locals are in a form of heaven here. The love of Grimsby Town must be a hardship for the landlord, especially since the Imps keep on making the play - offs. It is not a food pub, the locals use the chippie nearby as do the regular riverside ramblers who frequent the pub in summer. It comes recommended as great for a summer pint in the garden. I recommend it for the great choice of regional ales and location a few miles from Lincoln, yet only ten minutes from the ground by car.
UPDATE: Bob showcases local brewery ales on a regular basis. It is also worth checking out Harry the Haddocks’ comments on the pub in the Lincolnshire Pub goers Guide.
BWV 17.10.04: Fuller’s London Pride, John Smith’s Cask Bitter, Spinning Dog Mutleys Pit Stop, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Tom Wood Bitter Warwickshire Lady Godiva
BWV 9.12.05: Archers Rule of Thumb, Fernandes Pride and Joy, John Smith’s Cask Bitter, Wentworth Needles Eye | | | LINCOLN CAMRA | | 
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