Blackfriars Tavern, Great Yarmouth

The Blackfriars Tavern is a corner wedge shaped pub with a front bar area where small tables sit on a very worn carpet under a couple of massive rosettes stuck to the ceiling, one for CAMRA Cider & POTY 2025 and the other for National Finalist POTY 2025. To the left is a piano that is strewn with old beer magazines, the Blackfriars Library, and the counter across the rear to the left was being manned by a CAMRA high priest on a quiet Tuesday evening when there were only two other customers. All the tables had games on them ranging from Jenga to crib and draughts etc. In the rear is a back room with more seating and more tables with games, bar billiards and a dartboard. There was some instrumental reggae music playing the background and on the rear right wall is a screen for displaying the available drinks. I counted 16 hand pumps along the counter, nine of which were in operation drawing the inhouse Blackfriars Tavern’s Foreign Export Scholars Stout and Blessed Bitter alongside Lacons Brewery’s Contrast and Penny Black, Mr Winter’s Brewing’s Prancer’s Pale, Ampersand Brewery’s Bidon, Tindall Ales Brewery’s I’ll See You Home, All Day Brewing’s Fruhstuck and Drenchfoot Brewery’s Red Fokker. A decent selection with only half the pumps active, and I loved the Blackfriars’s own Blessed. I also noted a craft cider selection available. Even though there were only two other customers, there was still a good atmosphere, and I really enjoyed my stay, so I’ll be revisiting when back in GY.