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Artilleryman

A child and dog friendly pub serving food with Sky TV and WiFi and a garden in Colchester.

54-56 Artillery Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2JQ
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01206 862784

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http://www.artillerymancolchester.co.uk/index

Facilities include: Real Ale, WiFi (free), Outside Seating, Dog friendly, Child Friendly, Car Park, Big Screen, Sky Sports, Bar Snacks, Restaurant, Traditional Sunday Roast, Fruit Machines, Pool Table, Dartboard, Live Music, 1 Room, Board Games, Terrestrial TV, Garden, Traditional, Open Fire, Function Hire Available, Darts, TNT Sports, Beer, Wine,

Mon: 16:00 - 22:00
Tue - Wed: 14:00 - 22:00
Thu: 14:00 - 22:30
Fri - Sat: 12:00 - 00:00
Sun: 12:00 - 22:00

Drink % Brewery
Birra Moretti 4.6 Heineken

The ultimate Italian lager since 1859, Birra Moretti’s special blend of high quality hops creates a smooth, full bodied beer with wholemeal bread top notes which are cut by a delicate citrus note.

Tasting Notes: It is a bottom fermented beer with a golden colour. This colouring is a result of the type of malt used in brewing. Its alcohol content is 4.6% alcohol by volume. It is not a strong beer and is therefore perfect for drinking at lunch, at dinner or for evenings out with friends

Budweiser 4.3 Budweiser

Budweiser is a medium-bodied, flavorful, crisp American-style lager. Brewed with the best barley malt and a blend of premium hop varieties, it is an icon of core American values like optimism and celebration.

Tasting Notes: Fresh and subtle fruit notes, a delicate malt sweetness and balanced bitterness for a clean, snappy finish. Budweiser is a medium-bodied, flavorful, crisp and pure beer with blended layers of premium American and European hop aromas, brewed for the perfect balance of flavor and refreshment.

Carlsberg Danish Pilsner 3.4 Carlsberg Marstons Brewing Company

Completely rebrewed from head to hop, our new Carlsberg Danish Pilsner has a light and refreshing qualities with a smooth, full mouthfeel and a perfect balance of bitterness and sweetness. Distinctive citrus hop aromas deliver a greater depth of flavour and a hoppy, moreish aftertaste to the final sip. Skål!

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East Coast I.P.A. 4.0 Greene King PLC

Bold, brash American Style IPA with lip smacking bitterness and punchy citrus and tropical fruit flavours.

Tasting Notes: With punchy citrus and fruit flavours, this golden pale ale combines bold, brash American style IPA with the traditional brewing of the East of England.

Foster's 3.4 Heineken

Foster's is the ultimate ice-cold refreshment. Its balance of subtle fruitiness and vanilla is ideal for the sweeter-toothed lager lover. The perfect session beer to enjoy with mates.

Tasting Notes: A light-coloured lager style, it presents full malt character with a balanced clean hop bitterness. Combined with a slightly hoppy, but yeasty/malty nose, Foster's lager is a full bodied beer with excellent drinkability.

Greene King IPA 3.6 Greene King PLC

An easy drinking, refreshing IPA with a hoppy taste, and aroma to give a clean dry finish

Tasting Notes: Tawny Amber in colour with a hoppy taste and aroma.

Guinness Draught 4.2 Guinness

One of the world's best-loved beers, with sweet smelling aromas of coffee and malt, from the first velvety sip to the last, lingering drop, every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between is pure beauty… pure Guinness.

Tasting Notes: Smoothly balanced with bitter, sweet, roasted notes

Guinness Extra Cold 4.2 Guinness

Black as the night with a creamy tan head with a coffee and mild roasted aroma and flavour. Medium (light) bodied and a soft carbonation, a real mellow sweetness.

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John Smiths Bitter 3.8 John Smith's Brewery

Bronze and amber colouring with a malt and fruity smell.

Tasting Notes: Malt, hop bitterness, a full body with lasting aftertaste. John Smith’s bitter, which is still going strong, is a malty, bitter sweet ale with a slight fruitiness and a bitter aftertaste – we probably took the words right out of your mouth.

Old Speckled Hen 4.5 Greene King PLC

A distinctive rich malty taste bursting with toffee character, fruity aroma and deliciously smooth.

Tasting Notes: Auburn Copper in colour with a distinctive malty and toffee taste.

San Miguel 5.0 Carlsberg Marstons Brewing Company

San Miguel is brewed using a special mashing process which gives the beer a fuller and slightly sweeter flavour. The unique recipe and San Miguel yeast then come together to deliver a refreshing, full bodied beer with a great taste.

Tasting Notes: San Miguel is a pale blonde Spanish pilsner style lager, with a hoppy, citrus aroma, and hoppy zesty fruity flavours with a full flavoured hoppy lingering finish. San Miguel is well suited to tapas style food, cured meats, hams and cheeses

Stella Artois 4.8 Stella Artois

Stella Artois is one of the world’s best-selling beers and is enjoyed in more than 80 countries. Its full, characteristic flavour and high quality is assured through a superior brewing process and by using the finest ingredients available.

Tasting Notes: It is brewed to perfection using the original Stella Artois yeast and only the best ingredients including the celebrated Saaz hops. It's the optimum premium lager, with its full flavour and clean, crisp taste.

Tilly Ale 3.9

Fresh Hop & Refreshingly Malty

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Tribute 4.2 St Austell Brewery

Tribute is an easy drinking pale ale.

Tasting Notes: Fresh, Orange, Grapefruit The zesty orange and grapefruit flavours are balanced with biscuit malt. The beer of South West sport, Tribute has high profile shirt sponsorships with Somerset and Gloucester CCCs as well as close relationships with both Football League clubs Plymouth and Exeter City. Tribute is also the Official Beer of South West Rugby and supports many rugby teams in the region with shirt sponsorships, plus it is the main sponsor of the Cornwall RFU whose teams are the current County Champions and holders of the Bill Beaumont Cup. We were also thrilled in 2015 for Tribute to be the main sponsor of Bristol Balloon Fiesta and in 2016 Tribute will again be a high profile partner of this wonderful event. All told, there is plenty to look forward to for Tribute in the coming year.

Aspall Cyder 4.5 Aspall Cyder

Draught is a crisp, medium dry cyder with a delicate aroma and taste of fresh pressed apples. Crafted at the original Cyder House, Suffolk.

Tasting Notes: Fruity, dry, racy, thirst-quenching, lip-smacking.

Aspall Cyder 4.5 Aspall Cyder

A crisp, medium dry cyder with a delicate aroma and taste of fresh pressed apples. Crafted at the original Cyder House, Suffolk. Fruity, dry, racy, thirst-quenching, lip-smacking.

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Strongbow 4.5 Heineken

Strongbow gets its distinctive flavour and cut-through refreshment through the unique blends of bittersweet British cider apples from our Herefordshire orchards.

Tasting Notes: The cider is made from a blend of bittersweet cider and culinary apples making it a well-rounded, balanced cider with a good mix of fresh apples and cidery flavour

Strongbow Dark Fruit 4.0 Heineken

Crisp Strongbow cut with a blend of dark fruit

Tasting Notes: Harnessing the crisp, masculine refreshment of Strongbow Original, Strongbow Dark Fruit offers an easy-drinking combination of Strongbow cider, cut with black currant and blackberry juices.

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World Cup of Darts

Programme starts at 12:00

Coverage of the afternoon session on day three of the tournament, featuring four matches from the round of 16 at Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany.

Today

Live Racing

Programme starts at 13:15

Coverage of a meeting headlined by the Grand Cup from York, plus racing from Sandown Park and Chester.

Today

Spanish Grand Prix: Qualifying

Programme starts at 15:00

Coverage of the battle for grid positions for the seventh round of the season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain.

Today

World Cup of Darts: Evening session

Programme starts at 18:00

Coverage of the evening session on day three of the tournament, featuring four matches from the round of 16 at Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany.

Today

Qatar v Switzerland

Programme starts at 20:00

Coverage of this FIFA World Cup 2026 group-stage match live on ITV from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, San Francisco. Having handed over the hosting baton, Qatar secured passage to their second World Cup after an epic, 18-match, qualification phase in Asia. While Akram Afif and Co are chasing a first point at the tournament, Switzerland are looking to shake off a run of early knockout stage elimination. Lining up for a sixth consecutive edition, the Swiss have departed at the Round of 16 in four of those five outings. This will be the first World Cup meeting between the nations.

Tomorrow

Australia v Turkey

Programme starts at 05:00

Coverage of this FIFA World Cup 2026 group-stage match live on ITV from BC Place Vancouver in Canada. Australia and Türkiye will meet at a FIFA World Cup™ for the first time in this Group D opener at BC Place Vancouver. The Socceroos are competing at the global finals for a sixth consecutive edition while Türkiye are making their third appearance and their first since they stormed all the way to the semi-finals at Korea/Japan 2002.

Tomorrow

World Cup of Darts: Quarterfinals

Programme starts at 12:00

Coverage of the afternoon session on day four of the tournament, featuring the quarter-finals at Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Spanish Grand Prix

Programme starts at 14:00

Coverage of the seventh round of the season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain. This is the first time this race has taken place and is the first of two Grand Prix's to take place in Spain, with the second race taking place in Madrid in September.

Tomorrow

World Cup of Darts: Finals

Programme starts at 18:00

Coverage of the evening session on day four of the tournament, featuring the semi-finals and final at Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany. Northern Ireland's Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney were the victorious team last year, thrashing a German side containing Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko 8-1 in the last four, before eging past Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price's Wales 10-9 in the showpiece match.

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Germany v Curacao

Programme starts at 18:00

Coverage of this FIFA World Cup 2026 group-stage match live on ITV from Houston Stadium in Texas. History will be made in this Group E affair as Curaçao will play their first FIFA World Cup™ match when they take on four-time champions Germany. The Caribbean side, under the guidance of veteran head coach Dick Advocaat, delivered a Concacaf qualifying campaign for the ages by edging Jamaica in Group B to reach these global finals, while the Germans overcame a slow start in UEFA qualifying Group A to punch their North American ticket. Not only is it the first World Cup match-up between the two nations, but their first encounter ever.

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Netherlands v Japan

Programme starts at 21:00

Coverage of this FIFA World Cup 2026 group-stage match live on ITV from Dallas Stadium in Texas. Two heavyweight teams from across the globe will go head-to-head when the Netherlands and Japan meet in their opening Group F fixture. The Samurai Blue – competing in their eighth successive FIFA World Cup™ – were the first nation outside of the three co-hosts to punch their ticket to the tournament, qualifying with three group games to spare in the third round of the AFC preliminaries. Three-times finalists the Oranje were unbeaten in their qualifying campaign, finishing top of UEFA Group G to reach their 12th finals.

We serve the following food styles:

Bar Snacks, Restaurant, Traditional Sunday Roast, Traditional