SOME 85 years after Winchester’s main brewery shut, a city pub hopes to get the pints flowing again.

The Fuflood Arms in Cheriton Road, Fulflood, is about to start selling its own beer.

Father and son team Clive and Andy Mansell have converted a small section of the venue into a micro-brewery.

It will produce up to two barrels a week of Fulflood Arms Bitter, a mid-brown ale with 3.9 per cent alcohol.

It is taking place under the watchful eye of Iain McIntosh of the Flowerpots Brewery at Cheriton.

Final touches are being made to the recipe before it goes on sale on Friday, February 17.

It has been timed to coincide with the publicans’ best guess of when the Fulflood Arms opened.

While they do not know the exact date, it is thought to be February 1872, making the venue 140-years-old.

It was opened by the Winchester Brewery, which stopped producing its own ales in 1927.

Since then, the publicans said they were only aware of one attempt to brew beer inside the city boundary.

That was during the early 1980s at the Mash Tun pub, which is now El Sabio’s tapas restaurant in Eastgate Street.

Other venues such as the Black Boy in Wharf Hill sell their own-branded beer, but it is brewed outside the city.

For more details about the new bitter at the Fulflood Arms, call the pub on 01962 842996.