Roscoe Head, Liverpool

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I didn't exactly go out exploring The Roscoe Head, but still managed to count 3 rooms at this classic award winning pub. It seems I was visiting at the tail end of a Yorkshire Day tap takeover event, so Timothy Taylor ales dominated the bar, with Knowle Spring, Boltmaker and Landlord: the former not often seen; the last increasingly common. The Knowle Spring wasn't quite to my taste, and £5.30 is the kind of price I've become accustomed to paying in 2025, but I'd happily call in again sometime.

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The Roscoe Head is a small pub that feels a lot like a house with two seating areas up the right, both with fireplaces and the rear one being slightly larger than the front. The bar is found on the left wall where it serves a snug to the front left where a beer shelf runs under the front window and the foyer to the right that is standing room only. The three hand pumps on the bar in the snug were drawing Big Hand Brewing’s Palewulf, Fixed Wheel Brewery’s The Cricket and Colbier Beer Co’s Presto Stout while the four hand pumps on the foyer counter were drawing TT Landlord, Fyne Ales’ Jarl, Tetleys and Thistly Cross cider. Premium keg products and Carlsberg were also available, but alas the pie display case on the bar was empty. The barman was very friendly and I enjoyed my visit to this beer and conversation pub.

A lovely and famous pub that didn't disappoint, quite small and extremely busy as you would expect but this only added to the buzz about the place. Six handpulls offering up Fyne Ales Jarl, Oakham Nectaron, Salopian Chameleon, Coach House Gunpowder, Tetleys Bitter and Timothy Taylor Landlord. A classic pub.

Fantastic multi roomed pub, beautifully looked after and a real old fashioned gem! 5 good real ales

With last orders at Midnight, we had time for a swift half in the Roscoe Head on our midweek visit to Liverpool. This is still one of my favourite Liverpool pubs and has a great traditional feel to it. You enter into the main bar area, with doors off to a tiny snug on the left, a larger room on the right and a similar sized room at the rear. With all tables taken, we stood in the bar area. The real ale range here is always good, without being excellent. Tetley's Cask & Timothy Taylor Landlord are the regular beers. Guests were Salopian Mellon Dream, Timothy Taylor Dark Mild, Durham Shindig & Strawberry Fields Eleanor. Weston's Old Rosie cider is generally available. Known for having appeared in every edition of the Good Beer Guide and recently having been saved from the clutches of NewRiver, this is still a pub that is well worth supporting. It is certainly a remnant of times gone by that deserves supporting.