Clarence Inn

08/05/2026

Congratulations to our U16s winning 9-1 against Builth Tuesday evening, being crowned South Powys U16 league champions for the 25-26 season!

Huge congratulations to the team and all involved!

11/04/2026

Happy New Financial Year 🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🎉🙄🤪

21/03/2026

I wish he was joking.

🚨🦠 SIX YEARS ON 🦠🚨

Six bloody years since the government decided the safest place for the nation was anywhere except sat in front of a cold pint with a bag of dry roasted. 😢

On this day in 2020, they pulled the shutters down and turned the taps off. 🏚️

Remember those days? When the biggest panic was whether we'd be open by Christmas or if the furlough money would clear? 😬

Bless our naive little hearts.

If only we knew that was the easy part.

Fast forward six years, and here we are, facing the real pandemic: The sheer, unadulterated, impossible task of trying to pour you a beer whilst deciding whether to mortgage our firstborn to the electricity board or the VAT man. 👶

Surviving a Lockdown was just the Warm-Up Act.

🦠 Back in 2020, we were worried about a virus.
🍟 Now? I’m worried about whether I can afford to switch the fryers on.

I currently need to sell a kidney just to turn the glasswasher on for a cycle. My monthly bill is higher than the GDP of a small developing nation. 🗺️📈

And then we have the "help" from Westminster. They love a photo op with a pint, don’t they?

But when it comes to the math, they’re clearly using a broken abacus. 🧮

While the rest of Europe treats their hospitality industry like a national treasure - with hospitality VAT rates in places like France, Spain, and even Ireland sitting at a sensible 7% to 13% - our lot thinks 20% is "fair." 🤷‍♂️

🤨 Fair? It’s basically a mugging.

We’re competing with European neighbors who get a leg up, while we’re being asked to sprint with a 9 gallon cask on our backs. It’s not a "level playing field"; it’s a vertical climb where the government is throwing rocks at us from the top. 🪨

💸 I’m charging six quid a pint just to keep the taxman in gold-plated Hobnobs, and yet I’m making less profit than when I was able to charge £3!

We survived the global pandemic, but I’m not sure we’re going to survive the government’s utter contempt for anyone who doesn't own a hedge fund. 😰

We’re being squeezed on energy, hammered on tax, and smiled at by politicians who wouldn't know a local if it hit them in the face with a bag of pork scratchings.

So, if you appreciate having somewhere to go that isn’t your own depressing living room or a faceless chain where the staff think a shandy is a type of cocktail, come and spend some money in your local! 🍺

Support your local pub before we all turn into trendy coffee shops or, worse still, more second homes for the crooks in Westminster! ☕️👨🏼‍💼

I’ll be at the bar, keeping the lights switched off to save money. Just follow the sound of my groaning. 😩

11/03/2026

Love this.

All round legend, friend and co-founder of the IPA, Ian at The Goats Head, has today written to the Chancellor with a simple proposal! 👏👏👏

Let’s abolish the House of Commons and replace it with the House of Commonsense.

In the House of Commonsense we’d recognise a few basic truths:

👉 Taxing pubs more doesn’t magically create more pubs
👉 Crushing hospitality with costs doesn’t help communities
👉 And maybe… just maybe… the British pub is worth protecting

Right now pubs are closing at around four a day while the tax burden keeps rising. 🏚️

So Ian’s posting an open letter asking for something radical:

A little bit of common sense.

Have a read… and if you agree, give it a share. 🍻

And for gods sake, go give The Goats Head and the Independent Pub Alliance - IPA a follow! 👉📲

06/03/2026

I’m not one to moan and whinge though my other half will tell you different. Reducing VAT is the one thing the government can do save hospitality. It appears our fantastic government are in complete denial about the state of hospitality, or do they just want pubs to die, and not employ people and youngsters. Heaven knows what goes on in their heads. Please sign if you would like to show your support for the hospitality industry and your local if you still have one.
Thanks

02/03/2026

Spot on Tom.

26/02/2026

Brain strain for a good cause. 🤯🤯🤯

28/01/2026

Ok, I’m doing my best not to swear, but I am still fu***ng fuming about today’s bulls**t…🤬
(Oops, I failed! 🤷‍♂️)

Let’s just visualise exactly what has happened.

Because Labour are trying to spin this as a positive, which it absolutely, 100% is not. 🤥

So, imagine this…

I currently sell a delicious pint of cask ale for the fair and reasonable price of £5 a pint…🍺

I then announce, out loud, that I will soon be helping you all out with this price…🎉

But actually, secretly, sneakily, I’m increasing the price to £10 a pint! (*Mwahahaha*) 😈

But you all notice…

And you start shouting about it…

You point out that I’m a lying scumbag who is totally incompetent and entirely unqualified to be Chancellor…I mean…Landlord 👀😅

So I say that I’ll ummm, errr, ummm…offer additional support! Yep, additional support! 🥳

But then I ignore you for 3 weeks…

You keep asking where the promised support is, but I don’t answer you, because I’m spineless and in hiding…

Then, eventually, the big day comes…

The day you’ve all been waiting for…

I’m going to stand up and make things right, make things fair, once again…

But, instead of having the bo****ks to do it myself, I send a 12 year old lad in my place…

I get said child to tell you I’ll knock a little bit off the new £10 price tag, and henceforth generously sell the pint for JUST £8.50! To support you all, to help you out! ❤️

The original pint was a fiver. It’s now £8.50.

You tell me, is that support? Is that help? Or am I being a conniving piece of s**t, who is unfairly targeting you and trying to spin it as support? 🤔

Let me know your thoughts below! 😅

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful customers and our fantabulous staff.
You should all be on the good list! 🤪
Have a lovely day everyone x
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

24/12/2025