Ship & Mitre, Liverpool

Impressive Art Deco styled frontage housing a large ale-led pub served by an island bar. Thirteen (I think) ales spread around the bar, my halves of Cheshire Brewing Roodee Dark and Osset Treacle Stout were in excellent nick, though the Blackmere Jewel was a little under-par. Also lots of bottles (bottled beer menu available), cider, perry and craft keg to choose from. Swift service despite the throng and no sign of the ‘serves regulars before you’ complaints I’d read about elsewhere. Numerous beer festivals advertised. Absolutely rammed on Saturday evening though it’s a very male-oriented place, I think Mrs Quinno’s presence helped put the lady count up by 25% but it was a great atmosphere nonetheless. So busy it was hard to pick out stuff beyond the galleon stylings, though we enjoyed the old Belgian boxed beer crates finding use as condiment holders on the tables and the nice rear skylight. Downsides were the state of some of the furnishings (shot to pieces) and the gents toilets (a low-grade, cramped piss-swamp). Would be near the top of the revisit list next time I’m in town though.

Yes agree with signman it s well worth a visit

Nothing more can be added to Pub Signman's review.Called in Saturday lunchtime- place was packed but got served quickly. As usual there was a vast range of beers on offer and in good condition. A must visit pub when in Liverpool,

This is an excellent ale house inside a lovely art-deco building near the entrance to the Mersey Tunnel. Entering the pub, you pass a ship’s wheel before emerging into a room that is styled, to a degree, like a ship. This room is quite a pleasant spot for a drink, with wooden flooring and a raised, triangular seating area. You can pass the servery on either side to gain access to the carpeted lounge bar at the rear of the pub. This room features some nice leather banquette seating, two dartboards and a large stained glass skylight feature. The centrepiece of the room is, of all things, a life-size Worzel Gummidge dummy which has been relocated to the rear of the pub after having gone walkabout a few too many times when originally positioned near the front door. There is another bar upstairs in a wonderful art-deco style room with an impressive brass bar back and lots of retro advertisements on the walls – well worth a quick peek on your way out. Hand pumps are split between the front and rear bars and offered a great range of ales on our visit in the shape of Big Bog Bog Standard, Rat Dirty Rat Mild, Oakham JHB, Burton Bridge Fly By Night, Elland Yorkshire Lager, Milestone Black Pearl, Mr Grundy 1914 and Cottage Jack the Whippet. An extensive array of foreign beer is available on draught and there are various cider and perry options too. Fridges full of the pub’s bottled beer range line one wall and there are numerous pump clips on display as well as several magnetic boards that list the extensive range of beer available. Another board listed all the upcoming events for 2012, which included at least one beer festival every month, plus brewery trips, meet the brewer nights and so forth. With so much going on, there is a sense that the pub really does offer something for everyone. It is certainly the sort of place that the beer drinker could spend many an hour in and of all the pubs I visited in Liverpool, this would be the one I’d head back to first.