Rising Sun pub in Dacorum

First gay pub I've been to that feels genuinely welcoming and trans- friendly. I had a non- alcoholic whiskey + coke and it was fantastic. Great range of drinks. Just outside the lock (which I went through on a busy Saturday - boaters don't go through if you don't want people to look at you haha), with loads of moorings nearby. Very friendly staff and amazing vibes. However, is not wheelchair accessible which is very disappointing as a disabled queer person.

Great cider list and selection of beers on tap. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, so the place was packed inside and out. Regardless, service was friendly and quick. We managed to snag a table and relaxed in the sun tossing a small wood shard around for a border collie at the next table over. Given the proximity to water (on canal), there were also swans. There was a particularly audacious swan that waltzed slowly on up the pavement. Some small children gave it a wide berth, however a small young doggo got a little too close and got wing fwapped a few times. The owner of the doggo watched and did nothing at first, likely unaware that the swan, if provoked just a little too much, may have pecked the poor thing's face off. Something tells me he wouldn't have enjoyed raising a blind and mutilated dog. Not everyone should own pets, eh? People really should educate themselves on the dangers of modern water foul. Read a book, people. Jeez. Maybe a celebrity could do a PSA or tribute song to swan safety or something. Is Adam Sandler still relevant?

Lovely atmosphere and great drinks on tap

Best pub in berko, lovely people, great atmosphere

I didn't eat there. It was difficult to decide where to sit, so I sat outside. Might go back on a nice day.

Some of the kindest people working here, and a warm inviting atmosphere. Lively along the canal, and boats passing by. Excellent pints. Excellent Pub.

Great pub right on the canal, beer and cider selection is great and staff are very friendly.

A lovely traditional pub that's LGBTQ Friendly. It has a great range of drinks and the owners are really friendly. Limited seating inside but loads outside with some by the canal.

Best place for a pint in Berkhamsted

Very nice location on the canal and the cheapest of the three pubs in quick succession on the towpath.

Great selection of beers, so happy to see the new addition Budvar beer 👏🏻😃 Lovely outside sitting area, friendly atmosphere and staff!

Simply the best pub in Berkhamsted, traditional feel with a good selection of drinks. Lots of events as well.

Excellent pub, super location, nice beer

Probably the best pub in Berko, tremendous beer selection

Living on the Grand Union, we get to moor up next to many lovely canal side pubs not many can compare to the rising sun. It's atmosphere is always friendly and the staff are very good indeed! It also has one of the best collections of gin I have ever seen! Highly recommended 👌

This is a characterful pub that hasn't been made over and sits right on the canal.... I love it and I take friends there despite its a long journey

Lovely canal-side pub, lgbtq+ friendly. Lovely old-school, proper pub, feeling to it. Serves a good range of cask ales, craft beers and ciders. Dog friendly too.

Proper pub, convivial and authentic 👌

Thursday night is quiz night so friendly chat with others at the bar as we tried to answer the questions. Really good range of beers including three local ales

Good range of beers in a nice setting next to the canal.

Lovely location and friendly staff, average price

They don't really do food. Great pub lots of beers to choose from Great staff really enjoyed my self

Great pub,nice ciders Quiz night on Thursdays,very good

27/10/23: Hemel Hempstead Weekend: visiting friends John & Hazel for the weekend, myself Lynette & Bryan. We'd travelled to Berkhamsted for the afternoon. The weather was cold and crisp outside but the pub was warm and welcoming. Good selection of craft ale, but I chose the Orchard Pig Reveller cider. It wasn't good and tasted off/past it's best. Other drinks were ok. Very busy inside with workers dressed in scruffy clothes, painters overalls, workwear.

Was very full when I went but the amount of drinks they offered made it very worth it.

Always friendly and popular in the sunshine. Inside it's quirky but plenty of seating, including a covered outside area. Always a good selection of ales, ciders, lagers and spirits. Most people hang around outside along the toe path, but watch out after a few, many have come a cropper in the Grand Union!

Absolutely lovely place to go. The pub up the canal seemed busier but this pub was perfect. The bar man was so friendly and remembered my order when I returned. Very kind to my little girl. We will be back

Nice little canal side pub situated adjacent to a lock, and you can sit out and enjoy boaters passing through. Very friendly service and good selection of beers. A good place to visit.

All the pubs allong the towpath were busy when we visited and all looked to be providing food and drink to suit a wide range of clientele - kids, families, dogs, you name it. The canal and the narrow boats are the main attraction and we had a lovely walk around the area and a nice drink outside, watching the world go by. I recommend it!

Lovely and welcoming vintage pub, literally set on the Grand Junction Canal through Berkhamsted and a genuine manually operated lock. As soon as the weather allows it, people come out to enjoy their drinks and the scenery. More tables seem to come out from the ground and soon, the path on the canal and the little area surrounding the lock become a lively informal terrace where everyone, including pets, simply enjoy being here, watching the narrow boats and the time go by. There is a large covered terrace as well for colder days and fresh evenings while the bar area, very cosy and warm, makes you want to seat there forever. The best is to come and check by yourself!

Cracking pub, lovely local ales and very friendly staff, dog was treated like a VIP

Charming canal side pub. Good service. Lovely setting. Great choice of drinks. Highly recommend.

Best pub in town. Great services and best selection of beers.

A brilliant place for a beer especially if you don’t want to deal with the much noisier crown…

Great pub. Local atmosphere big choice of Gin and Beer ..

That’s definitely my favourite pub to have a drink. It’s so beautifully ran and sooooo friendly. One day we bought a drinks we wanted to pay by Apple Pay but unfortunately our payment didn’t go through so we were asked to present a card itself what we did not have, barman told us do not worry go enjoy your drink and brink next time we come in, when we got in next day in order to pay back he said for honesty and we let you have it for free , May be 15 years ago it’s was common but definitely not those days We recommend place as its so friendly, good to dogs, lgbt welcome what is nice. Lovely staff and beautiful vibe Thank you

Proper pub, real beers & ciders, great location next to the canal.

Great little pub by the canal, gets busy in the sunshine. They came out with small gestures of food to share

Delightful setting and a great range of cider, excellent

A traditional British Pub, freehouse not brewery owned, quirky and fabulous, beautiful setting, great atmosphere - a proper beer pub (& great range of gins!!) 💕

It is just the perfect drinking pub - cozy inside in winter, splendid canalside location in Summer and the finest selection of drinks

Perfect traditional freehouse pub. Great inside and out. A range of ciders and over 100 gins as well as the usual beers and spirits. You can even have a third of a pint, amazing. Wish we lived closer!

We were looking for somewhere for lunch on Saturday and walked by the canal to try one of the pubs. Decided to go to the Rising Sun to try. It was packed with people . We ordered drinks and then realised they were not serving food as it was a cheese night. But that’s fine as I didn’t want to eat there anymore as the place looked filthy. The seats were all so old and dirty. And there were so many dogs everywhere inside the pub. One dog was so loud it was hurting my ears. Although it seems to be a popular regular pub for some, it is definitely not the place for us. We would never go back again.

Great and friendly pub by the canal . Had a lovely afternoon, well recommended

Proper spit and sawdust pub, great staff and a perfect place to watch the narrowboats on the canal.

So quaint and lively. Great location on the canal.

Great beer pub .No fancy farrow and ball decorating.Just good beer at good prices .Sitting outside this pub in the summer on the canal does not get much better 👍

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Wonderful friendly welcoming small local ...even the locals made us feel welcome for a Thursday quiz night

Friendly and snug. A lovely place to finish our Saturday night. Have always enjoyed it when I've been here.

A real pub with real ale, real cider, and real craic. This is what pubs should be.

Traditional pub set on the canal. Busy in summer, covered and heated outside area for the winter. Cosy corners inside with plenty of beers and spirits to choose from. There’s always several guys on duty, on Friday go for a random selection of hot snacks that are gifted to customers for free after work. The owners don’t stand for nonsense - i have seen a typical drunken incident and people are barred on the spot. Lovely spot on a sunny Sunday to nestle away in the corner. Huge regular attendance, you will get to know the same faces in no time.

Very friendly atmosphere. Love it in there (so do my dogs)

Liked the establishment a lot, but sadly was not there long enough to get the full experience. My bad. I shall put that right soon.

Lovely proper pub. Friendly staff and customers dog friendly great beer!@

I bit tucked away but once you’ve found this proper little boozer you’ll be back!

Proper pub, great location, friendly locals. Will definitely be back👍

Great quiz night on a Thursday and fish and chips.

Fantastic friendly pub in a great location. Always a new beer to try too! Good cider, friendly staff, come on!

Great range of beers and excellent service

Walked past a number of great pubs to get to the Rising sun, it had good reviews and was right by the canal. It was a nice looking pub and it was right by the canal. However the ham and cheese ploughmans we ordered was seriously lacking. We were warned that an apple would be missing (more cheese would be supplied). Small amount of cheese (blue cheese crumbled & dried out), 2 slices of cheap ham, four marble sized pickle onions and a small supermarket self bake baguette - it was dire for the £9+ we paid. Looked nothing like the photo shown in the gallery. If you are after food do yourself a favour and walk 20 metres up the canal to 2 other pubs that look like they serve a decent meal.

Bright and cheery place but they obstruct operation of the canal lock, someone is bound to end up dead.

Went to this pub as we were looking for somewhere to drink near a riverside/canal. The photos we saw online looks better than it really is. Could do with decorating and better chairs outside. The water in the canal was awful and there was no nice view

Traditional Real Ale and Cider Pub, next to The Grand Union Canal and a short walk from Berkhampsted Railway Station.

A little gem by the canal, we came here for a drink and sat on the canal side watching the world fo by. They have the biggest gin collection I've ever seen! Well worth the visit. The staff were super friendly and pretty knowledgeable about the gin

Took my mates ID claiming it was fake because they have "reasons to believe so" and even though he has been using at other places that have verified.

Canal side boozer with a whole lot of spirit. The pub is quaint and cosy, the outside space allows for slow summer supping. It has well stocked spirit shelves with all the guns, plus some interesting rums and whisky's. The staff were nice and the public spaces were all clean and tidy. There are many pubs in Berko and a wide choice of canal side venues too, the Rising Sun makes everyone welcome, so is a must.

Really lovely location, by the canal and the lock. Snug little bar, good beer and the hosts have a lovely sense of humour. Go there, enjoy good company and thank me later.

Great atmosphere and drink selection, but bar service was slow.

A very nice pub and nice staff, one of my favourite places to drink, big 5 stars

It's very easy to describe this pub. Selling over priced poncy lagers (that no lager drinker would touch with a bargepole), doesn't stop it being a Chav Hole. Also, please keep your knuckle dragging customers away from the lock, it's there for a reason, not to entertain the intellectually challenged.

Loved the truck rooms with i side of truck rooms also the online website was amazing a talked in length about truck rooms

Rude pub owner, awful warm beer, wouldn't eat the food after seeing the rats running around the side of the pub. all in all an awful experience and avoid it at all costs

Worst pub in Berkhamsted Staff are rude Food is awful beer is warm Id hate to live near this pub as its so loud in the evening avoid at all costs

Wonderfully relaxed pub ,And real cider

Lovely sunny day , perfect for sitting by the canal , lovely atmosphere n really friendly would go again

Fantastic location, great choice of beers.

Fantastic food/drink Fantastic location

Best pub in berkhamsted with the most down to earth clientele.

The site at Berkhamsted Herfordshire

Just one of the best pubs ever!

Quirky and charming with phenomenal food. A total gem of a place.

Excellent choice of beer, really friendly staff, properly old school decoration. Right on the canal. Faultless.

The Best Pub In Berkhamsted, staff are great, Jake makes the place. Good service, authentic pub, friendly and enjoyable to visit.

Small canal side pub. Nice to stop for tea and a wee. (No food)

Very pleasant location on the canal but the beer is a bit pricy.

Such a cool place to sit outside and watch the world go by; either walkers on the towpath or boaters on the canal. Everyone has time for a chat.

Nice place to relax after walk alongside the canal

Lovely people, location, range of beers. They offer a very nice ploughman's and nachos too so idea for lunchtime break by the canal. Highly recommended

Really loved this pub. I chose to go there as it made no mystery on social media of its political allegiance and left-leaning views which in my opinion definitely are a plus in a community-minded pub - and I do like places making a stand and having some personality in these days of anodyne, cardboard cutout establishments which seem to think that homogeneous standardisation is something to aim for! The place is wonderful, sitting along the picturesque canalside where you can see boats immersed in their transient stationary lull - and the pub fits nicely with that atmosphere, almost feeling like an extension of the boatmen's bohemian lifestyle and nonchalant attitude. The staff are really nice and the moment you walk in you instantly know that this is a great spot to mingle and while time chatting and musing with them or other punters - rather the opposite of a gastro-sit-down model where interactions tend to be on the formal side and limited to your orders. There's also music played on Sundays at lunchtime. All in all, this is a magnificent social pub, which has not forgotten the meaning and purpose of the definition of "public house", so come if you're open-minded and still curious about life and others!

Exactly what was needed from a friendly pub.

The best pub in Berkhamsted. You can always squeeze in outside or sit on the grass. Great views of the canal. Dog friendly. Very cosy pub in winter. The pub quiz is very hard!

Amazing local pub. Friendly staff, fantastic location, lovely old house on the canal, and good prices. It's dog friendly and no-Tory sobe warned!

Good selection of beers, pleasant canalside location.

Top pub, knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff. Lucky enough to enjoy the pub on a warm summer evening and with their beer festival. Sampled the 15 local ales they had on offer. Highly recommended. Great pub, great atmosphere.

One of a kind pub in lovely setting. No food just booze ( which is a bit of a shame) but probably what makes it work. Very welcoming to all human types and ages and doggies seem to mingle so well here too. Love you and will miss you as we are moving abroad. Go here, you won’t have a bad time, promise ❤️

Real pub only had a drink but will go back.nice feel.

Excellent bar. Amazing banter. This is what an English pub is all about. Tick. Tick. Tick.

Great pub, nice young staff, lovely setting, but seating outside less than comfortable, but ok, I suppose. Nice range of real ales...

Great place for a few beers quick service and friendly atmosphere