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Crown & Kettle, Manchester
Ancoats
Manchester
M4 5FE
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The Crown and Kettle
A right royal knees up - £3.75 pints of cask all week long! #cask #camra #realale #ancoats #mcr https://t.co/MExWgtnuxA
5:01 PM Apr 28th from Twitter for iPhone
Reviews of Crown & Kettle (Average Rating: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
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Ian Mapp left this review about Crown & Kettle
Update 17/02/23 - Just a comment on the prices... I was warned that a pint of a 4.7% Elusive Brewing Miles per Hour was going to be prohibitively expensive at around £7 (I forget exact amount, in a rare turn of events, my daughter was getting a round). I then saw a picture that the brewers owner had tweeted from the Nags Head in Reading, where the same pints was £5.40. Who says the South East is too expensive to drink at.
Original Review
Doesn't necessarily look like a Grade II listed building from the outside. Inside, the ornate plaster ceiling is revered but it ain't gonna be there for ever. Great big chunks of it have been stopped from hitting the punters heads by some strategic netting.
Main bar has some very hard wooden furniture.... felt like nicking some cushions from the snug - but this was reserved for a group of people who kept turning up with suitcases. Full of what? We never found out.
Friendly staff who were happy to provide beer advice and samples. Another long list of hand pulls I had not previously seen.
The beer - Marquis by Brewster's Brewery - was acceptable.
On 19th February 2023
- rating: 7
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Steve C left this review about Crown & Kettle
I found myself back in the Crown & Kettle late on Wednesday evening after a hiatus of nine years. To be honest I didn’t realise I had been here before until I looked up at the crumbling net covered ceiling. The interior is much the same with the central bar splitting the left and right seating areas. The two televisions were displaying the beer menus, I counted 17 premium and craft keg options and six cask ales. I went for the Tonkoko, which was OK, but a milk stout is probably not the best choice after demolishing a Titanic Plum Porter in the previous pub. This is certainly a pub that beer fans should visit and I’m sure I’ll find myself in here again at some point. Maybe in the meantime someone will bite the bullet and decide to put that ceiling out of its misery.
On 11th March 2022
- rating: 7
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Rob Hunter left this review about Crown & Kettle
Visited again on Saturday night. It may be my imagination, but I think there are more tables in the main front room than there had been previously. This was definitely welcome as the pub was quite busy and we managed to grab what appeared to be the only free table. Six(?) cask ales available. I didn't notice if there was any cask cider or not, but there are further hand pulls on the section of the bar that serves the back room - one of these had something on but can't remember if it was a cider or an ale. I definitely recall noting the presence of cider, I just can't remember if it was cask or not. There's also a craft keg selection.
Another Manchester favourite.
On 21st February 2022
- rating: 9
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Manchester Piccadilly, 0.68 miles, 13 min walk (show)
Manchester Oxford Road, 1.06 miles, 20 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : Yes - Occasional & Irregular - last updated 25 August 2013 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Darts : No last updated 25 August 2013 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Jukebox : Yes last updated 25 August 2013 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 26 November 2015 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Blue Scrumpy
- WiFi : Yes last updated 16 March 2017 by Quinno _
