Winckley Street Ale House, Preston

A newish addition to the Preston drinking scene ( opened November 2018 I believe) in a former shop premises, the Winckley Ale House mainly focusses on craft beer options with a nine tap wall at the back of the serving counter, but there are three ale hand pumps on the front of the counter that had Brewsmith Pale, Mobberley Brewhouse Cheshire Pale and Twisted Wheel Brew Co. Speed Wobble available on our visit. I ducked the craft Rivington Brewing Imperial Stout at 10.5% and £9.50 a pint being shown on the electronic display screen for a half of the Speed Wobble at £1.90. One of our party disingenuously referred to the Twisted Wheel ale as chicken soup, but I quite liked it. Comfortable place to enjoy a beer with the front bench seating section and the boothed side are as described below and there was a couple of additional benches outside to the front of the bar.

As described below, a nice little one-up-from-a-micropub in what passes for a posh area. the Brewsmith Pale was reasonable, if a little lively in the pump. I wouldn't object to dropping by again.

As mentioned, this is a new conversion on genteel cobbled Winckley Street, just off lovely Winckley Square. A half of Twisted Wheel's Speed-Wobble is noted as being 'Ok', price not recorded.

Official site of Winckley Street Ale House - www.winckleyale.co.uk

Official site of Winckley Street Ale House - www.winckleyale.co.uk

Last time I came here it was a specialist pie and ale house, it’s now rebranded and just an ale house without the pies. It offers a very good value food menu usually, but only drinks at the mo. Four clipped cask pumps - my West Coast pale was fine and service ultra friendly. Also has loads of kegs and a fridge of cans. It’s pleasingly unpretentious and the atmosphere was nice though maybe more bar than pub. Music choice is displayed on a large screen TV, via Spotify I think. The array of historic pump clips shows the pedigree of this place, it’s a ‘should visit’ in Preston.