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What a transformation! Gone is the dingy karaoke bar with 1960s decor, the plethora of clutter, the sub-standard beer and out of date bar snacks. In comes a bright, open & welcoming pub with a great selection of real ales from various micro brewies. The landlord has 8 pumps featuring guest ales, from breweries such as Oakham, Nutbrook and Blue monkey to name a few (the ones I can remember). They offered a scrumpy cider from a barrell behind the bar too, but at 7.6% I steered well clear for the sake of hangover avoidence! Price wise it was around £2.80 for a pint of real ale, but a 20p discount is offered to CAMRA members. They have your standard lagers (Stella and Carling I think) too but didn't really give them enough attention due to the feast of guest ales I was presented with. This pub has built up a reputation over the years, and not a favourable one at that however the early indications are that the new owners are trying to run a proper drinkers pub to appeal to real ale drinkers. With Derby having a reputation for quality real ale, this could well stand the new Furnace Inn in very good favour. With the Five Lamps, Flower Pot and Silk Mill all withing spitting distance, this could really make the North East corner of Derby a fundamental part of the city's Real Ale trail.

Microbrewery out back, business in the bar. Great selection of ales. Proper old style pub with nooks and crannies. Marvellous!

Simply put, this place is amazing!

Functional purpose built pub built on an industrial / shopping estate. It seems that this wouldn’t survive if it wasn’t for the Odeon Cinema near by. Doesn’t particularly pull up any trees

Decent pub with nice pub garden. Beer is average but food is excellent! Selection of crazy crap all over the wall

Student hell. Avoid

This pub is a good place to sample some decent real ale. It has had many guises in the past few years but the latest incarnation seems to have found a successful formulae. It’s more of a starting point than a sit and stay type of pub, but never the less it is definitely worth a visit.

Crap, overpriced, soul-less chain pub. Occasionally have decent guest ales though.

Top cafe in lovely surroundings!

Simply put, the best Chinese takeaway in Derby