Winckley Street Ale House, Preston

Small, modern L shaped shop-conversion bar aimed at the Preston hipster(s), exposed brick and spray paintings on the walls, bench seating etc. Three samey cask over four pumps (the spare was being used as a blue roll dispenser!), my Mobberley Cheshire Pale was in good nick (NBSS 3.5) and surprisingly cheap at 3 quid for a pint. Also a selection of craft and bottles, unexplored by me. Shame it's not still called the Otter's Pocket, I wanted a pic of myself outside with the sign for a Viz tick. Anyway, this is worth its place on the crawl list. GBG ’22 listed.

A nice comfortable shop conversion with a reasonable selection of both cask and keg beer, I opted for a pint of Moberley Cheshire pale which was pleasant enough. Certainly a pub to visit on any future Preston trips.

Winckley Street Ale House is a shop converted bar that has tables with chairs and pew seating at the front faced by a bar that supports four handpumps. One of these was being used as a blue roll holder, but the other three were drawing Brewsmith Pale, Mobberley’s Cheshire Pale and Twisted Wheel’s Speed Wobble. I went for a pint of Cheshire (3.9%) at a very reasonable £3. The back bar is lined with 10 keg fonts that were dispensing seven craft beers and Guinness. Food is available, the burger and chips is priced at £7.77. In the left rear is some booth seating and a burner is in a small fireplace adjacent to the front seating area. There was some low background music playing and one of the two huge televisions was on with a display of the available beers. The service was very friendly and surroundings comfortable so I would visit here again.

A newish addition to the Preston drinking scene ( opened November 2018 I believe) in a former shop premises, the Winckley Ale House mainly focusses on craft beer options with a nine tap wall at the back of the serving counter, but there are three ale hand pumps on the front of the counter that had Brewsmith Pale, Mobberley Brewhouse Cheshire Pale and Twisted Wheel Brew Co. Speed Wobble available on our visit. I ducked the craft Rivington Brewing Imperial Stout at 10.5% and £9.50 a pint being shown on the electronic display screen for a half of the Speed Wobble at £1.90. One of our party disingenuously referred to the Twisted Wheel ale as chicken soup, but I quite liked it. Comfortable place to enjoy a beer with the front bench seating section and the boothed side are as described below and there was a couple of additional benches outside to the front of the bar.

As described below, a nice little one-up-from-a-micropub in what passes for a posh area. the Brewsmith Pale was reasonable, if a little lively in the pump. I wouldn't object to dropping by again.

As mentioned, this is a new conversion on genteel cobbled Winckley Street, just off lovely Winckley Square. A half of Twisted Wheel's Speed-Wobble is noted as being 'Ok', price not recorded.

Official site of Winckley Street Ale House - www.winckleyale.co.uk