The Nag's Head Reading

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The Nag's Head is a CAMRA award-winning, Reading local pub. We specialise in real ale across 12 handpumps, BIB cider, craft keg & continental lagers. ☎️ 07765880137 📧 Info@thenagsheadreading.co.uk

👕💩 Dig out your loudest, brightest, most gloriously questionable shirt... The Shit Shirt Party is coming to The Nags! 🍺 Great beer 🔥 Smoked Oak braai 🎶 Live music 🎧 Vinyl DJ sets 💜 Raising money for Laura's Lasting Legacy

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Beer garden + Persian street food = a fabulous weekend. 🙌 Saffron Hill Food joins us today (Fri) & tomorrow (Sat) with wraps, rice bowls and loads of flavour while we keep the pints flowing. 🇮🇷 Find a sunny table - first come, first served - and let us do the rest. 🌞

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A few of your current favourites... 👀🍻 🍺 12 hand pumps of glorious cask ale 🍻 Continental lagers 💥 A dozen+ keg lines 🍎 Cider. Lots of cider. Whatever your pint of choice looks like, chances are we've got something with your name on it. See you at the bar.

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🌴 Caribbean flavours are back at the Nag's! Jampat's returns Friday evening & Saturday with jerk chicken, curry goat and proper island comfort food. 🔥 We'll handle the pints, they'll handle the food. See you in the beer garden. 🍻

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Beer garden weather? We've got that covered. ☀️ This weekend Momo Bros x Dhaulagiri Kitchen return to The Nag's with handmade momos, noodles and flavour-packed Nepalese street food. 🍜 Friday evening 🥟 All day Saturday We'll pour the pints. They'll bring the dumplings.

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⚽❤️ Tonight, we go again. The atmosphere you've all created throughout this World Cup has been incredible. Let's make the semi-final another 1 to remember. One lil favour: our team have been working their socks off through every late night & packed pub. A lil patience & kindness goes a long way. 🍻

England. Argentina. Cold beer. Hot braai. 🔥 Smoked Oak returns to The Nags from 7.30pm this Wednesday, serving authentic South African barbecue while we take care of the pints and the football. 😏 Come hungry. Stay loud. It's Coming Home!!! 🙌

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Bonnie Tyler gave us some absolute classics & we're raising a glass to a true legend today. ❤️🍻 By complete coincidence (or fate?), we've just put Arbor's Holding Out For A Beer-O on the bar. Zesty, sessionable & sounding even better with Bonnie on the stereo. Cheers! 🍺🎶

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☀️ Heatwave Weekend? We've got you covered. Saffron Hill Food returns Fri (late afternoon) & all day Sat with fresh Persian wraps, rice bowls & loads of vibrant flavour. Ideal with a cold pint & perfect before the next England World Cup game. See you in the beer garden. 🌿🍺

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Football's better together. ❤️⚽ Thanks to everyone who joined us through the v early hours of Monday for England v Mexico. Great people, great sportsmanship, and brilliant vibes from first whistle to sunrise. Our pub team were absolute stars. See you for the quarter-finals! 🍻

🇿🇦🔥 Smoked Oak are back! Join us Friday eve & all day Saturday for authentic South African braai, fresh off the barbecue, alongside great beer and the England 🇬🇧 v South Africa 🇿🇦 rugby. We've got the pints. They've got the grill. See you in the beer garden for it all. 🍺🏉

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🧠🍺 Quiz night returns this Sunday! Join Gary & Mark from 7pm for an evening of wonderful questions, good laughs, and great beer. 💷 £2 entry, with all proceeds going to CoppaFeel! 💕 Gather your team (or your smartest mate), and we'll see you at the bar. 🏆🍻

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Fresh Persian food + cold pints + beer garden = this weekend sorted ☀️🍻 Saffron Hill Food are back with us at The Nag’s on Fri 26th & Sat 27th June serving up wraps, vibrant Persian dishes & plenty of fresh salad. Exactly what’s needed after a week of heatwave weather!

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How it started ➡️ how it ended ♟️🍻 A few Mondays back, Nag’s Knights took on the Alehouse Hobgoblins for a cracking eve of pub chess, pints, and very healthy competition. Big congrats to the Hobgoblins on the win 👏 but the real joy was a marquee full of Reading chess folk...

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England on the screens, Smoked Oak on the grill. That’s Tuesday evening sorted. ⚽🔥🍗 Join us on 23rd June for the match and some seriously good South African street food in the garden. Cold pints, big screens, proper pub atmosphere and food worth turning up hungry for. Come on down, yeah? 🍻

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📺⚽ Seen lots of pubs frantically installing TVs for the World Cup... Meanwhile at The Nag's: 📺 2 inside 🚬 1 in the smoking shelter ⛺ 4 in the marquees 📽️ 1 big screen in the garden So: ✅ Yes, we're showing it ✅ Yes, there are loads of screens ❌ No, we don't take bookings Just turn up, have fun. 🍻⚽

🔥🇯🇲 Caribbean flavours are coming back to The Nag's this weekend. Jampat's will be in the beer garden Friday evening and all day Saturday serving jerk chicken, curry goat, rice & peas and plenty more sunshine-filled goodness. Cold beer 🤝 hot food. No bookings required - just arrive hungry. 🍺🌴

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🍺 One person's perfect pint is another person's "can I try a taster?" From the super-sinkable Deya Summer Ale ☀️ to Tiny Rebel's Pacha Cherry Mild 🍒, Fierce x Rush Golden Ale 🎸 and Holy Goat's Heretic Flanders Red 🍷, we've got all tastes covered.

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🔥🇿🇦 Next up in the beer garden: Smoked Oak! They're bringing a proper South African braai to The Nag's Head on Fri 12th & Sat 13th June, serving smoky, flame-grilled goodness that's been making some of our S.A. lot very excited indeed. 🍖 Braai 🍺 Great beer ☀️ Beer garden vibes Come VERY hungry. 😎

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🧀❤️ Cheese 4 Change returns to The Nag’s this Sunday! Hosted by the ever-brilliant Anne-Marie, we'll be raising money for Last Chance Animal Rescue in memory of Connor Styles-Brown. For a min £10 donation, enjoy a tasty cheese plate while supporting a cause close to many hearts.

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Could our friends and fans please stop messaging Jody about what's on our TVs while he's trying to enjoy a pint at a beer festival? 😅🍺 For everyone asking: yes, we'll be showing today's ECL match at 5pm - Paris Saint-Germain vs Arsenal! ⚽

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🌴🔥 Next up in the beer garden: Jampat’s! Join us Fri 29th & Sat 30th May for Caribbean street food alongside cold pints & sunny garden vibes. 🍺☀️ Expect jerk chicken, curry goat, rice & peas + loads of big flavour. Proper weekend food. No bookings - just turn up hungry!

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