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Vale of Clwyd Branch CAMRA Pub of the Year 2008 and CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2008, More info here. - Iechyd da (cheers)!
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Built in the mid 1700s at the crossroads of two old coaching routes, the Blue Bell Inn is purportedly named after a local privateer’s boat the Blue Bell. Legend has it that he was later caught and hanged for his piracy and is thought to be buried a few hundred yards away in the cemetery next to Halkyn Castle. How to find us.
We are an independent, family run, award winning freehouse, we've scooped two major prizes in a rare double - Vale of Clwyd Branch CAMRA Pub of the Year 2008 and CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2008, we are also runner-up Flintshire Evening Leader Pub of the Year 2008. At 850 feet we are near the top of Halkyn Mountain with spectacular 70
mile views over the Dee & Mersey rivers, the distant Cumbrian mountains & Pennine hills. With an extensive events
list we are enjoyed by walkers, riders, cyclists, folk & jazz
musicians, game players and locals alike. Our award winning walk can be
downloaded from here and you can use our free wireless internet to stay in touch. Real fires in winter add to the warm welcome.
 We’ve
had hundreds of different cask ales to date and our own local Welsh
brewed Blue Bell Bitter is always on along with other regularly
changing real ales, ciders and perrys - we even make our own Rosie's
Blue Bell Cider. You will find us in the Good Pub, Cider and Beer
Guides and we have a Cask Marque for quality, in fact we are one of the
highest scoring cask marque pubs in the UK with a maximum 100% score.
We also have a good selection of great wines from around the world, a
large range of soft dinks
and FairTrade tea’s, coffee’s and hot chocolate.
Our food is a mixture of locally sourced,
home-made and traditional meals ranging from lighter bites to those
that challenge the hungry.
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 Graeme & Michael are The Crooked Spirits. They are a duo of local singer songwriters who will be performing an acoustic set of their original melodic songs on the 1st Saturday each month
with electric guitars and keyboards but ohh so mellow, you can still have a conversation without shouting and enjoy some lovely music at the same time! Next one Saturday 2nd June.
Before meeting and forming The Crooked Spirits, Graeme and Michael had a long history of playing in various bands, session work, record deals, festivals, touring all over the UK and even a spot of TV. Their influences include The Divine Comedy, The Smiths and Eels. Check out their latest video here! Click on Read More to find out more about The Crooked Spirits.
ON TONIGHT! The Rantin' Dogs - a fantastic sounding folk quartet, Steve, Dugie,
Mark & Michael would like to let you know that they rehearse and
play here every 2nd Monday each month from 9ish, playing traditional acoustic folk with a celtic leaning. Check out where they got their unusual name from here cos there's no ranting with this group, like all the music here at the Blue Bell Inn, it's a lovely sound. Next one Monday 12th May.
All are welcome to enjoy the entertainment & our cask ales and real ciders. We hope you have fun & join in, even if you can only manage the choruses! Check out our Folk Links for more information.
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We have acoustic music here every Thursday amply hosted by the award winning Paul Reaney.
Paul’s acoustic and folk performances are proving very popular as they can leap from heart rending story songs to moments of complete daftness with a side order of cheeky Scouse wit. He would very much welcome your company to come and join him playing acoustic music. While there are no hard and fast rules here, the acoustic music at the Blue Bell Inn follows the style of Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Roots & Blues and of course floor singers are very welcome too. It's usually an informal session with occasional guests so bring your instruments, voices, or just your ears. Turn up and join in if you want to perform, songs, music, poetry, monologues, anything legal,  safe & entertaining. All welcome, any abilities. Click on Read More to find out more about Paul.
All are welcome to enjoy the entertainment & our cask ales and real ciders. We hope you have fun & join in, even if you can only manage the choruses! Check out our Folk Links for more information.
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There's Trad Jazz here every Sunday at the Blue Bell Inn, Halkyn, with the mellow sounds of Mad Ed's Hot Five who bring a great mix of humour with superb musicianship. Don't miss them this week as they entertain both us and themselves with such verve and vigour that you'll get withdrawal symptoms if you miss them!
Mad Ed's hot Five are in full force most weeks with double bassist Mad Ed Lloyd-Hughes leading a stunning line-up of Roy Django Gregory (Modjango) on guitar & banjo, Stan Bananas Williams ( YouTube) on trumpet & flugelhorn, Tom the Doc Rippeth on trombone & wagnerian horns and Carol Horle keeping a sense of decorum with her georgous voice and clarinet. You'll see from the pictures that they are ably supported by a range of fantastic subs who give us a lovely and varing mix of sounds.
All are welcome to enjoy the entertainment & our range of cask ales & real ciders and we hope you have fun joining in with Mad Ed's happy band of jazzers. Don't forget to look out for our new Jazz Links pages as they're growing all the time! We've joined myspace.com have you?
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  CAMRA will be promoting Mild throughout May and celebrating National Mild Day on Saturday 3rd May 2008.
The Blue Bell Inn will be promoting Mild Month with a series of classic
Mild's, Stouts and Porters from a variety of brewers. As Steve likes his dark beers, especially milds, porters and stouts you should expect to see a few more weeks in Mild month than the calendar says!
We are hoping to finish off the month with a special - if we can procure it - Sarah Hughes' Dark Ruby mild! We'll also have a few others to add to the mix as can be seen on the Beer + Cider Log. Click here
to see what beers we have on now, what are next and what are coming
soon!
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Open from 5pm Monday to Friday and 12pm Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holidays.
Food: Saturday 12pm to 2:30pm and Sunday 12pm to 2pm (menu here).
Advance bookings taken for food / drink outside of these hours.
Coaches welcome by appointment. - We take most major credit and debit cards.
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