A popular Pub near Whitchurch has made it to the Good Beer Guide for a seventh year in a row.

The Carden Arms in Tilston, near Malpas, is celebrating seven consecutive years’ entry in the highly prestigious CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) Good Beer Guide (GBG).

The pub was hailed in the latest edition as an ‘impressive rural free house’ with a cask ale range from independent breweries. 

“It means a lot to have our efforts recognised by the Good Beer Guide for the seventh year,” said general manager Trish MacKay.

“As a village pub we try very hard to source a variety of quality guest cask ales working with independent breweries in Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales.

“In these last few days of Cask Ale Week we invite beer lovers to come and try them.”

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The Carden Arms was reborn in 2016 by local farmer, Didy Morgan, who saved the former 18th century coaching inn from closure and invested in extensive renovations. Now there is a nostalgic bar, with real fires, two dining areas brimming with antiques and five luxury guest bedrooms.

The revered national guide - which this year has The Pub is the Hub theme – praises the ‘stylish’ Carden saying: “The interior has rug covered wood and tiled floors, traditional furniture and attractive framed pictures on the plain white walls. High quality food is served in the bar area and stylish dining room.”

Mrs Morgan paid tribute to the work of the staff at the pub for making the prestigious guide for a seventh consecutive year.

“We are delighted to be one of only two pubs a few miles south of Chester to be included in the much-respected Good Beer Guide,” said Mrs Morgan.

“It is a real tribute to the determination of Trish and the team in making the Carden a welcoming village pub with good beer and food. Local pubs have to work very hard to succeed and this listing for our seventh consecutive year is a real boost.”

The five hand-pull bar currently features Peerless Triple Blond (sic) from Birkenhead and Yorkshire’s Timothy Taylors Landlord along with ‘guests’ from Three Tuns Brewery of Bishops Castle, Big Hand of Wrexham and Chester’s Spitting Feathers and Weetwood Ales.

The pub is linked to its own old-fashioned farm, just a mile down the road, where all it’s rare breed beef, lamb and pork is “raised at one with nature”. This features heavily on the menu.