R&G’s Beer Vault, Macclesfield

Bottle shop on a corner of Market Place, scaffolding shelves of bottles and cans but also you can sit in and drink one of 12 keg beers listed on a laser display screen above the bar back or drink in one of the bottles or cans (a £1.50 premium applies over the take out price). A converted shop, so it’s a rectangular box with windows on two sides furnished with modern utilitarian tables and chairs plus a few stools under one window equipped with drinking shelf and phone charging outlets. Not the most comfortable or charming of drinking places but makes a two hander with the Five Clouds Tap almost next door.

A comfortable enough craft beer bar with several long tables and some for 4 & 2. No cask ale, but loads of bottles and cans available to take out or drink in. As per the review below 9 of the 10 keg taps were on. A pleasant atmosphere with 3, yes 3 well behaved babies in. Can't remember what we had, but it was a pleasant enough freezing cold blonde beer which wasn't ideal on a January evening. Happily pop back in here rather than Fiveclouds next time.

Craft beer bar and 'bottle shop' (although mostly cans in the fridges and on the shelves). Limited seating inside, but additional tables available outdoors on the pavement. Nine of the ten keg taps on the bar-back were in use, with a wide selection of styles (from which I went for the appropriately named Late Summer Pint, £4.20).

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Official site of R&G’s Beer Vault - rgbeervault.co.uk