The Dead Poets Inn celebrates being named Amber Valley CAMRA Pub of the Year

Derbyshire Times

The Dead Poets Inn at Holbrook is celebrating being named Amber Valley CAMRA Pub of the Year for 2025 - scooping the award for the second time in a row.

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00:00Hi guys, I'm Natasha. I'm the manager of the Dead Poets Inn in Holbrook in

00:04Derbyshire. We've got this lovely gentleman here today talking to me

00:07about our lovely pub. I've got Alan here as well who's hiding from the camera at

00:11the moment but we'll go with that. I'm just here to tell you a little bit about

00:15our lovely pub and the fact that we've just won Amber Valley Camera Pub of the

00:18Year for the second time. So I'm immensely proud and I just want to use

00:22this platform to say how proud we are of all of our customers, of all of our

00:26lovely staff and our bosses that are looking after us. But yeah, so I just

00:30want to show you a little bit about our pub. So we've qualified, obviously we've

00:34won Amber Valley Camera Pub of the Year. We now qualify to go forward to fight

00:38against everyone else in South Derbyshire. So whoever's won for Derby,

00:43whoever's won for Erewash, whoever's won South Derbyshire, we'll all go head to

00:47head again and hopefully we'll get through. It's a tough competition though

00:52so lots to win. Obviously we've got all these lovely beers here so

00:56hopefully with help from our Brunswick Brewing Company we can win. So fingers

01:01crossed. So what type of beers do you sell? Oh we've got eight handpulls. There's

01:06another bar over here to my left. We've got eight real ales. We normally have a

01:10range of about 20 traditional ciders as well. Obviously we've got larbas for the

01:13larba drinkers but not our forte. We're linked with the Brunswick Brewing

01:18Company as I just said so we've always got a house beer on. We've always got

01:21draft bass because we're in Derbyshire and if I got that out I would not be

01:24running this pub anymore. We also have the lease with the pub with Everard so

01:29we always have old original on as a nod to them which is amazing. So lots of real ales.

01:33What would be the most popular beer you sell? Aside from bass I would

01:39definitely probably say the Brunswick's definitely becoming a firm favourite

01:42because we moved here in 2018 and not many people had had Brunswick beer in

01:45the village before. So when James Salmon, who was the head brewer, he obviously

01:51took over the business alongside Alan Pickersgill of the Brunswick Inn in

01:54Derby and we started putting our house beers in and it turned out that they

01:58were a massive hit so we sell no end of rocket now which is which is really good.

02:02Yeah we do we do a small lunchtime menu so we serve Tuesday right through to

02:07Sunday 12 till 2 in the week and then 12 till 4 on the weekends. Just sort of light

02:13bites like chip cobs things like that, pork pies etc. There's about 10 of us in

02:17total I think now yeah we will be starting to recruit though because we've

02:20got some lovely lovely young people that are moving on in their careers so

02:24been lovely to have them for a short while but yeah we're going to be

02:28starting recruiting soon onwards and upwards. Still run a successful quiz

02:31night so that's the first Wednesday of every month we have live music on the

02:36second and fourth Saturdays of every month. We've got our June beer festival

02:41coming up which is classed as a cider and sausage festival that's around the

02:4520th of June I believe but that'll be a that'll be a big one and then just

02:49looking forward to an amazing summer in our new beer garden.

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