The Pour House

16/09/2026

WE LEFT THE ELVES UNSUPERVISED FOR TWO DAYS. 🎨👀

And, remarkably, they’ve been quite productive.

While we’ve been closed, there’s been painting, touching up, sprucing and generally making The Pour House look rather smart.

Fresh paint. Same nonsense.

Which is probably just as well, because the next week is looking BUSY.

Tonight, The Pour House Runners are back in the house. They’ll do the running bit. We’ll handle the rehydration bit. Everyone playing to their strengths.

Tomorrow we’ve got DOCA packing confetti in the Cellar Bar, getting ready for the legendary Devizes Confetti Battle on 26th September. Which may be the first time we’ve actively encouraged people to bring thousands of tiny bits of paper into the building.

What could possibly go wrong? 😂

Then Friday, Bristol’s brilliant Arbor are taking over from about 5.30pm for our brewery showcase. We’ve got some cracking beers lined up, they’re bringing themselves, and you absolutely don’t need to know anything about craft beer to come along and enjoy it.

Then it’s the weekend.

People arriving for one and staying for three. Dogs. Chats with complete strangers. “What’s that they’re drinking?” Birthday celebrations. Laughter from somewhere downstairs. And all the other lovely little things that seem to happen here without us actually organising them.

Monday brings Talk Club, our men’s mental fitness group.

And then on Tuesday we’re doing something we’ve never done before…

Our first event for the Devizes Food & Drink Festival. 🍺🍫

Beer & Brownies with The Gourmet Brownie Company and Electric Bear. There are currently just eight tickets left, and we’ll tell you more about that separately because this post is already getting dangerously close to requiring a contents page.

So yes.

The elves have painted the bar.

We’ve got runners, confetti, brewers, brownies, beer, conversations, community and an entire weekend to fit in before Tuesday.

Seems a shame to make the place look this smart and not let anyone in 😂

Doors open at 4pm today. ❤️

Come and inspect the paintwork.

Or completely ignore it and have a pint.

Both are perfectly acceptable 🍻

15/09/2026

BEFORE YOU ACCIDENTALLY MAKE BORING PLANS FOR FRIDAY… 👀

We should probably tell you what we’re doing.

Arbor Ales are coming to The Pour House. 🍻

They’re a brilliant independent brewery from Bristol and, having worked our way through a fair few of their beers over the years, we can confidently report:

We’ve never had a duff one.

They’re lovely people too - so we’ve invited them round!!

They’ll be here from about 5.30pm on Friday, we’ve got some rather special Arbor beers lined up across a few different styles, and you’ll be able to meet the people behind them, try something you might not normally order and ask questions.

Or don’t ask questions.

You are also entirely welcome to come with a mate, drink something lovely and have a good Friday night.

You do NOT need to be a craft beer expert.

You don’t need to know what hops are in it.

You don’t need to detect “notes of freshly cut gooseberry on a north-facing hillside”.

You just need to know whether you like what’s in your glass.

And if beer isn’t your thing but the person you’re coming with loves it? That’s fine too. We have plenty of other things to drink.

So this is your advance warning before somebody suggests staying in and watching telly:

FRIDAY | ARBOR @ THE POUR HOUSE
🍺 Special beers
👋 Arbor in the house from around 5.30pm
🎟️ No booking. Just turn up.

Bring your beer-loving mate.

Bring your beer-curious mate.

Bring the mate who couldn’t care less about beer but likes a good night out.

We’ll find something for all of you.

See you Friday. ❤️

14/09/2026

13/09/2026

WILD THING… I THINK I LOVE YOU. 🎶🍺

Apparently, so do you lot.

We put it on at about 5.30pm yesterday with just two kegs to our name.

You’ve already drunk half a keg. 😂

So we’re now down to roughly ONE AND A HALF KEGS of Hawkstone Wild Thing.

And when it’s gone, it’s gone.

Sunday Recovery Club. 2–8pm.

Come and get Wild while you still can. 😉

12/09/2026

WE HAVE TWO KEGS. THAT’S IT. 👀🍺

If you’ve seen all the hype around the new limited-edition Hawkstone Wild Thing Lager, we have some rather good news.

It’s landed at The Pour House.

Wild Thing is made using Wildfarmed barley, in collaboration with regenerative farming pioneer Andy Cato, celebrating British farming while doing things a little differently for the land it comes from.

Which all sounds very worthy.

But there’s one fairly important question…

Does it actually taste any good?

YES.

I was lucky enough to try it at the Hawkstone Harvest Festival last weekend, and it is an absolutely cracking pint.

So when we got the opportunity to get our hands on some, we did.

Unfortunately, some means…

TWO KEGS. 😂

That’s our entire allocation.

No secret stash. No third keg hiding in the cellar. When the second one kicks, Wild Thing is gone.

So if you’ve been curious about it, don’t leave this one on the “I’ll try that next time” list.

There might not be a next time.

Hawkstone Wild Thing is pouring NOW at The Pour House. 🍺

Come and see what all the fuss is about.

12/09/2026

EVER WALKED PAST THE POUR HOUSE AND WONDERED WHAT’S ACTUALLY THERE? 👀

Today’s your chance to find out.

It’s Devizes Heritage Day, and we’re opening up the old cellars underneath The Pour House.

And whether you’re a history buff or just really nosey (curious), they’re worth a look.

There are old stone walls, brick arches, strange changes in levels, bricked-up openings and bits of the building that we’re still trying to work out ourselves.

So if you’ve walked past us before and thought:

“I really must pop in there one day…”

Make today the day.

Grab a friend, come and have a nose around, explore a bit of Devizes you don’t normally get to see and, if the mood takes you, have a drink afterwards.

You absolutely do not need to know anything about history.

You don’t even need to have been to The Pour House before.

Just turn up.

Heritage Day: 10am–4pm
Cellar tours throughout the day
Bar open: 12–9pm

No booking. No fuss.

Come downstairs for a bit of history, then come upstairs for something considerably more modern in a glass. 🍻

And if this is the excuse that finally gets you through our front door…

Hello. We’ve been expecting you.

11/09/2026

THINGS THAT WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN TODAY.

Someone will say:

“Thank God it’s Friday.”

Someone will send an email at 4.47pm containing the words “before the weekend…”

A meeting that should take 15 minutes will take 53, because Dave will ask 15 completely pointless questions, while you quietly ask AI what the likely prison sentence is for inflicting harm with a biro. 😬😂

Someone will suggest “picking this up on Monday”, and instantly become your favourite person.

You’ll spend most of the afternoon doing actual work while simultaneously doing absolutely everything possible to avoid starting anything new.

At some point you’ll look at the clock convinced it must be nearly 5pm.

It’ll be 2.36pm.

And someone, somewhere, will announce:

“I think I’ve earned a drink.”

And do you know what?

They probably have. 😂

Because Friday is going to Friday, whether we’re ready for it or not.

Fortunately, we’re already here.

The Pour House is open 12–9pm.

So finish what needs finishing.

Move everything else to Monday.

Shut the laptop.

And come and join the rest of us pretending the working week never happened.

You’ve nearly made it. 🍻

See you later.

10/09/2026

WE’VE ENCOUNTERED A SMALL PROBLEM WITH TONIGHT’S QUIZ. 🤔

We have one team booked.

Now, we’ve spent some time this morning considering how a one-team pub quiz might actually work.

We could:

Ask them 50 questions and then dramatically announce them as the winners.

Make them split into two teams and compete against themselves.

Make the bar staff enter and then deliberately lose.

Give them a ten-point deduction for excessive confidence.

Or just hand them the prize money when they walk through the door and save everyone an hour and a half.

Unfortunately, there’s another flaw in that plan.

The prize pot would be £8. 😂

So after careful consideration, we’ve decided that running an entire quiz to establish whether one team can beat absolutely nobody for eight quid is perhaps a little ridiculous.

TONIGHT’S QUIZ IS CANCELLED.

But Lou Gooden your team is technically, undefeated.

Congratulations on being the winners🏆

We’ll give it another go next month.

But it has got us thinking. If quizzes aren’t floating your boat anymore, what would you actually like us to do instead?

Meet the locals? Tastings? Games? Something completely different?

We’ll probably stick a poll up over the next few days because there’s no point us putting events on just because we’re supposed to put them on. We’d rather do things you actually want to come to.

In the meantime…

Enjoy The One Show instead 😂

Or you could still come to the bar.

We might introduce an impromptu bar quiz instead.

“What is the capital of Peru?”

Don’t know? Well you’re not having a drink then!!

This could catch on - or maybe not 🤔

We’re open 4–9pm as normal. 🍻

See you later. 😂🍺

09/09/2026

Quiz night….

09/09/2026

WELL, THAT FEELS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE AUTUMN. 🍂

The sun is shining this morning.

For now.

But there’s definitely a chill in the air, the evenings are drawing in and we’ve reached that time of year when leaving the house without a jacket becomes a calculated risk.

The Pour House Runners are off on tour tonight, making the most of the last of the lighter evenings with a spot of trail running.

So no sweaty runners descending on us this evening.

Well, not our sweaty runners anyway. 😂

Back at The Pour House, we’re open 4–9pm and doing what we do best.

The lines are clean.
The beers are fresh.
The bar is ready.

All we need now is you lot.

So get Wednesday out of the way with minimal drama, minimal disappointment and something lovely in your glass.

The weekend is already starting to appear on the horizon.

Come and see us. 4–9pm. 🍻

P.S. We didn’t bring a trophy home, so we’ve decided to award ourselves one anyway. 🏆😉

Top six local businesses in the UK has a pretty good ring to it, and frankly, nobody said we couldn’t. 😂