{"id":18887,"date":"2025-04-14T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18887\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:50:19","slug":"icing-on-the-cake-as-iconic-birmingham-pub-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18887\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Icing on the cake&#8217; as iconic Birmingham pub reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closed for over a year, The Clifden is back open in Birmingham and new landlord Will Young spoke to BirminghamLive about a future goal<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_NWP_BEM_100425Clifden_10JPG.jpg\" alt=\"The Clifden landlord Will Young spoke to BirminghamLive about a personal goal he wants the pub to achieve \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Clifden landlord Will Young spoke to BirminghamLive about a personal goal he wants the pub to achieve (Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">After iconic Jewellery Quarter pub The Clifden reopened in December, new landlord Will Young named one achievement he wants the pub to be recognised for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Forming a team with Hennessey&#8217;s owner Gary McDonnell and Kiran Chavda from The Witton Arms, The Lord Clifden looks in safe hands with people who know the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">With positive feedback from patrons so far, there is one recognition the pub is waiting to achieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read More:<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/youtuber-slams-birmingham-wetherspoon-customers-31366722\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/youtuber-slams-birmingham-wetherspoon-customers-31366722\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">YouTuber slams Birmingham Wetherspoon customers for &#8216;lack of class&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking to BirminghamLive, Will revealed getting The Clifden in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide would be &#8216;icing on the cake&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He added: &#8220;It might be a small pride thing, but for me, you only get into the Good Beer Guide if your real ale is top notch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"JWPlayer_poster-image___jQGK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744624219_981_poster.jpg\" alt=\"videoHeadline\"\/>The Clifden Pub In The Jewellery Quarter<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;That&#8217;s not all a pub has to be, there&#8217;s so much more to a pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;But real ale&#8217;s a struggling industry and on the decline each year. As soon as we have no real ale on, people will miss it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;re one of the few countries in the world that does real ale and cask ale, it&#8217;s a nice quirky unique British thing to have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I love beers for all occassion but I have a personal thing to do my part for the real ale industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The Good Beer Guide would be a beautiful thing for me and I want to get in the conversation about serving the best Guinness in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;All beer deserves to be looked after and cask ale is one of them for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The CAMRA Good Beer Guide is regarded by many as the definitive outlet for recognising the best real ale pubs across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Whilst Will waits to see if The Clifden will be recognised by CAMRA, another group of people have already taken to the pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said: &#8220;West Bromwich Albion fans are absolutely loving us, it seems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;re not actually a football pub, we&#8217;re a pub which shows football, but the Baggies have definitely been supporting us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I&#8217;ve opened up early when West Brom have an early kick off and they eat our breakfasts out of stock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Then they come back after the game which is always a good sign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We love them but we love all the Birmingham and Midlands teams to be honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Everyone&#8217;s welcome and we have lots of families come in on the West Brom days and there is never any problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Closed for over a year, The Clifden is back open in Birmingham and new landlord Will Young spoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10845,748,393,4884,10970,10969,10846,16,15,12462],"class_list":{"0":"post-18887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-pubs-and-bars","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hockley","14":"tag-jewellery-quarter","15":"tag-pubs-in-birmingham","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-bromwich-albion-fc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114335699624927223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}