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Calverley's Brewery Tap, Cambridge
Cambridge
CB1 2NZ
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
Steve of N21 left this review about Calverley's Brewery Tap
Well, if there’s a brewery tap on the route of your crawl then you have to do it, if it was open. Sadly by the end of the visit I kind of wished it hadn’t been.
As others have mentioned there’s not a great deal of character to this place and it’s all a bit sterile inside this industrial unit. I went for 2/3 of some stout which was pretty cold and didn’t have a lot of anything going on. Sadly even by the time it had warmed up it still didn’t and I finished up leaving the last 1/3.
With so many decent ale pubs in close vicinity I too cannot see myself troubling this one again.
On 14th April 2024
- rating: 5
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Steve C left this review about Calverley's Brewery Tap
Tucked away down a dead end street is Calverley’s Brewery Tap with its uncomfortable rectangular interior with little to no décor. It had the air of a work’s cafeteria. The serving counter is found on the right-hand wall where keg fonts line a stainless steel strip across the back bar, no real ale here. The crawl all ended up with 2/3 pints, but I had a half for some reason, I can’t remember what it was. I’m not a massive fan of these basic taps so I don’t plan on returning.
On 12th April 2024
- rating: 4
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Calverley's Brewery Tap
Brewery and taproom located in some former workshops in a side alley off the dead-end Hooper Street. Once you've worked out which part of the wide door actually opens, you step into an elongated room with the counter at one end and some fairly basic, semi-modern furniture, very limited decoration but a good amount of natural light. Excellent range of 12 brews in a wide variety of styles from the row of keg taps on the bar-back, some unfiltered 'live' beer I understand, although not my Cool Rye Pale (£6.00) as it happened
On 8th April 2024
- rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about Calverley's Brewery Tap
With predictive text suggesting ‘Calvary’, this would be appropriate given the proximity to the park known as Christ’s Pieces.
This is some modern number, looking like a converted lock-up garage round the back of a seedy trading estate at the end of a cul-de-sac abutting the railway line. Unsurprisingly, the interior is a modern, grey-themed affair exhibiting some bare brick with basic canteen-style furniture, drab grey featureless colour scheme and even a grey vinyl floor with massive oversized industrial steel lamps and hop bines by way of a sop to Mother Nature; it’s like sitting in a hospital waiting room, with the faint aroma of a branch of Travis Perkins. Customers were mixed, one with an annoying, moaning baby in tow.
With 12 taps to a beer wall, there’s no real ale here – CAMRA confirms – and I doubt there ever was, with unfiltered keg (one of our party likening another’s selection to ‘chicken soup’) served in schooners which looked like truncated Apollo capsules; I decided to have a drink-free break.
On 7th April 2024
- rating: 3
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Calverley's Brewery Tap
Walking down Hooper Street it just looks like a dead end with the railway rushing past at the end but don't give up,there is a narrow entrance to an industrial unit that houses both the brewery and the tap.Even the industrial door down the side doesn't looks like it will open,but give it a shove and you will enter into a modern feeling space with a drinking shelf running down the middle,seating against the rear wall and a circular log burner giving out great heat into a large space. Bar to the right .It feels cosy ,somewhat hipsterish and on our early evening visits there were a few buggies among the family groups.
There is a wide choice from 14 taps,the beer menu doesn't mention if any are key keg but there is a lot of continental inspired brews,some pokey.I went for the house Fruitti Tutti Sour served in schooner measure ,enjoyable for those that can handle a sour.Styles available on my trip included porters,stout,kolsch,IPA,NEIPA,marzen,pale and weisse.
We played the table skittle game and supped.Opening at 5pm during the week (not Mondays) and a valid choice if crawling the local pubs in this part of Cambridge.
On 3rd December 2023
- rating: 7
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Old Boots left this review about Calverley's Brewery Tap
A rough looking brewery tap in a 1920s or 30s industrial building beside the railway you can feel and hear the trains rattle by - bear with me it gets much better. The brewery produces interesting beers in a variety of styles, I’ve attached a beer list as an example. Housed in a rectangular industrial building, the walls have been whitewashed, a counter and a central seating counter have been installed. Big industrial lights hang from the low sloping ceiling and of course grey paint predominates. The wall at the far right end has 14 keg taps behind the counter and there’s a fridge full of cans etc. The inner side of the room has a series of tables and metal framed chairs and there are chunky pre war radiators and what appears to be a wood burning stove - possibly no longer de rigueur in PC Cambridge. Very few of the customers and staff had beards and tattoos. It’s GBG2022 listed as the beers are unfiltered and so contain live yeast meeting CAMRA’s definition of “real ale”. They’re happy for pizzas to be delivered from a nearby supplier.
On 25th July 2022
- no rating submitted
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