Penuche's Ale House

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  If it isn't too much of a contradiction, this place is highest quality dive bar in Keene!  Wicked cheap drink prices, fun things to do, (pool, darts, foosball, video games, etc.)  dark, with carved up and written on tables and bathroom doors from many a drunk patron, and an owner who still remembers a face, and usually a name, even if you haven't been in for a few years.  Loved it in the past because it was close to the college and the words "cut off" were never uttered, love it now because it seems like most of today's college kids don't know it exists!  This was the place to finish the night "back in the day" now it's just fun to stop in for a beer for the nostalgia.

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  Posted on 07.26.11 Sean M.

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  I hit this place up while in Keene for a concert a few months back.  I was expecting to walk in and get the 'What the hell are these old people doing here!?!' look that I would have given to someone like me If my young college self saw my old ass 37 year old self walk in now.
  
  There were no college kids in the bar.  It was weird.  Their was no more line out the door.  It was not spring break week.
  
  Still just beer and cordials, and as the other's indicated awesome popcorn.
  This place is dark, it is dingy- althoug 10-20% less dingy than when I was in college in 1992-1996.
  Folks that were there were friendly.  Beer is still 2 bucks a pint- that is zero inflation from my college daze.
  
  I still reccomend this place if you want to get loaded and watch a baseball game, or go get drunk with friends any night of the week.  No chow, but delivery guy friendly.
  
  If you like beer and you find yourself in Keene, this place has a great selection, cheap, so do the right thing.

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  Posted on 04.08.10 Dan M.

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  Awesome bar but very much for townies and college students. Pretty much only beer and ales. Cheap prices, free pizza on Friday's after 10:30. Free salty but awesome popcorn. Darts, fooseball, pool. Dark and dingy.

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  Posted on 05.17.09 Amanda N.

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  Penuche's. The Nooch.
  
  A friend of mine told me a story about the time he accidentally (his words) smoked crack in Penuche's. IN the bar.
  
  Penuche's has three locations in New Hampshire - I've only ever been to the Keene one. They have cheap beer, and The Nooch is well known and loved by all who like to drink. It's dark and dirty in here, clouds of cigarette smoke (before the fascists banned smoking in NH) and free, all you can eat, super salty popcorn.
  
  By cheap beer I mean they have a Kick the Keg special nearly every weekend, in which draughts are fifty or seventy five cents. Long Trail for a buck on Thursdays - cheap shots, and so on...
  
  Another thing - this is the kind of place where if you walk in before noon on a Tuesday and order a few rounds of bourbon and a bunch of beers, nobody looks at you like you're weird or something. Odds are you won't be the only one doing it. Overall, a legendary and heroic monument to drunkeness, alcoholism, and good old fashioned fun.

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  Posted on 08.01.08 Stephen K.

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