Chester Station Tap Room, Chester

An excellent station tap, fairly recently opened by Spitting Feathers brewery. Comfortable seating and a very pleasant atmosphere. Six cask ales available, with a couple of their own beers and some guest ales. The two beers we had were in very good nick. We'll definitely be calling in here again.

There are some excellent taprooms at railway stations around the country. This new pub is right up there with the best. Opened by Spitting Feathers Brewery who also have the Brewery Tap in the city, the single tall ceilinged room is a lovely restoration of a Grade II listed building. We didn't have too long to admire the interior, but it does feature some impressive tilework, especially the large fireplace in one wall. There are a total of 8 handpulls on the bar. 6 Spitting Feathers beers were Trio.Brew.Alien, Mouth.Pans.Hops, Old Wavertonian, Rocky.Dime.Stand, Brainstorm & Best Bitter. The other 2 were both from Salopian - Cypher & Escalation. There were also a couple of ciders - Nightingale Mystery Bird & Lilley's Cherries and Berries, as well as an excellent selection of craft beers - Spitting Feathers Rat Race, Howling Hops The Upper Crust, Whiplash Slow Life, Tartarus Megaera, Thornbridge Jaipur Does Faith, Blender Polyphemus, Vault City Brain Freeze Raspberry Slushy Sour, Spookton Pompidou Discount, Salopian Lemon Dream & Weekend Project Montane Grassland. I'd venture as far as saying that this was perhaps my favourite pub of a day's drinking in Chester. If I ever change trains here, I'll make sure I allow enough time for a swift half or maybe even several. Well worth a visit.

Excellent revamp of part of the station builing and has the feel of an old time station rest room/bar

I didn't know of this pub's existence until about an hour before my train out of Chester, and had two other pubs to squeeze in, so it was inevitably a flying visit. But first impressions are that this is a station tap to rival Sheffield, York or Harrogate, though it has no connection to those, being owned by local Spitting Feathers Brewery. The exterior is plain and regular, but the interior is something to behold, the fireplace being spectacular. The eight hand pumps on the bar were good to see, also - though only seven were clipped, one of the brewery's own products having gone off and not yet been replaced. I went for the Dark Velvet mild, which was very good but not quite up to the mild I'd had a few minutes earlier in The Cellar. This pub is going to be a handy stop when I'm on my way to visit my daughter in north Wales. On the way back, too.

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