"The Viper" Public House

"The Viper" Public House

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viper_larry

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4,338 posts

263 months

Tuesday 4th May 2004
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Although I'm sure someone else knows of it, I found out there's a pub called "The Viper" in Essex. Would be rude not to go visit 'en masse' sometime over the summer for a beer and photo session?

It's located just outside Chelmsford, click here for a map.

Here's a review of the pub:

"The Viper is the perfect English Village Pub. It has been run by the Beard family since 1938. it is to be found down a country lane, in the middle of a wood. It has four rooms, two which form the lounge bar, a public bar with wall benches and a tap room unchanged from the days when your grandparents would have known it and rightly on CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors; albeit an Appendix entry. It is in a beutiful setting and has won the local Brentwood in Bloom competition for the last 3 years running. there is no music or fruit machines and Roger Beard is rightly proud of his range of real ales, which includes those from Mighty Oak of Maldon as well as other Independents and Micros. Roger also brews at Mighty Oak his own beers, Viper Ales - Jake the Snake and Hisstaker, which are only sold in his pub (ring him for their availability). This is quite simply my home from home, and under the careful care of Roger and his wife Sharon, long will it remain so."

venom500

2,984 posts

290 months

Wednesday 5th May 2004
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Yep,it would be rude not to!

viper paul

2,485 posts

281 months

Saturday 8th May 2004
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Count me in just down the road.

Will try and find a contact, perhaps a lunch????