Heart Of Oak Pub

With a great atmosphere and a huge beer selection to choose from, who needs anything else to have a great time out?

We have some amazing dishes here as well so sit back with your favorite brew and enjoy your food in comfort.

Hey, mind your pints and quarts! That warning for unruly pub patrons to cut back on their consumption was shortened over time to what common phrase? If you guessed, Mind your Ps and Qs, you'd be right.

The most expensive beer in the world is called "Tutankhamen" and is made according to a recipe that a group of University of Cambridge archaeologists recovered from Queen Nefertiti's Temple of the Sun in Egypt. It costs US $52 a bottle and is produced in limited and numbered editions.

Americans collectively consume about 200 million barrels of beer each and every year. Let's put that in perspective: At $3.87 a pint, that roughly equals the Gross National Product (GNP) of a small nation.

Did you know that in the movie The Shawshank Redemption they got their time period of beer wrong? The prisoners on the roof drank beer out of cans in the 1930s, when beer wasn't canned until many years later.

Now that's what I call one heck of a Baptism party! In the 13th century, it was customary to baptize children with beer.

German mothers in the early 1800s were encouraged to drink up to seven pints of beer per day in order to make sure that they were able to adequately breastfeed their children. That number was reduced near the end of the century, when the government decided that two pints a day was sufficient.

Come on in with your friends and enjoy our selection of beers. Not sure what to order? We're happy to recommend the perfect brew.

Alright brain, I do not like you and you do not like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. - Homer Simpson

If you are drinking in a Czech bar, the bartender will continue to fill your mug as soon as it is empty until you place your coaster atop your mug, communication that you have drunk your fill.

Beer, as all alcoholic drinks, is made by the fermentation process caused by bacteria feeding on the yeast cells, then defecating. The bacterial excrement is called alcohol.

Many years ago in England, there were whistles baked into the rim of pub frequenters' ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get service. Wet your whistle is the phrase that was inspired by this practice.