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RedWillow, Macclesfield

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32A Park Green
Macclesfield
SK11 7NA

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Old Boots left this review about RedWillow

Red Willow’s conversion of a 1930s shop into a modern and elegant craft bar, it’s a nice job. Just a square room with banquette seating down one side, stools at a drinking shelf and sofas on the other where the counter isn’t. Tall and low tables take up the centre ground, there’s a corridor at the back leading to the gents and disabled toilet with more stools at a shelf. The counter runs down the left side and has five pulls with Red Willow beers, excellent condition as it should be in a brewery owned pub, fourteen keg beers and three still ciders. Only a few of the customers had beards or wore beanie hats and/or lumberjack shirts, the staff were clean shaven chaps. It uses lined glasses which is quite welcome in these days of perennial short measure.

On 13^th February 2025 - no rating submitted
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Pub SignMan left this review about RedWillow

This is a large craft beer bar and brewery tap for the Red Willow Brewery, which is located a short way down the road. You enter into a parquet floored room with a mix of wooden strip wall panels, neutral shades of paint and some dodgy floral wallpaper. High tables and stools fill the front left, regular tables and chairs run through the centre and there are some Chesterfields to the far right, ensuring a healthy mix of seating options throughout. I also noticed a drinking ledge down a corridor to the rear, beyond the end of the bar, with high stools in support. The servery is to the rear left and has a nice curved counter with a mosaic tile front that has a cutaway section in the middle revealing some enigmatic valves and gauges. A mirrored shelving bar back stands either side of the usual keg tap line, which is topped by one of those TV screens that list the full draught range, with blackboards and fridges to one side. Fairy lights in the front windows create a nice, muted lighting effect and some hops hung on a lintel do their best to make the place feel a bit rustic and less like a modern bar.
Red Willow beer dominates, with four on cask - Headless, Weightless (£4.80 a pint), Wreckless and Treacle Treat - and six more on keg, plus three keg lagers and five ciders. The barman was very friendly and he refused to charge me until my pint had settled to a degree he was happy with. It was a pretty good drop too, as you would hope from a brewery tap.
I thought this was a decent place to showcase the beer from this excellent brewery, even if it lacked a little bit of character. I felt like they've tried to create a bar that suits a wide range of customers and have probably done a decent job, judging by the mixed crowd on my visit. Definitely worth a stop off if you're in town and a dead cert for inclusion on any pub crawl.

Date of visit - 16th January 2024

On 12^th May 2024 - rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about RedWillow

Modern shop conversion. It’s a large oblong room which lacks any real warmth though there's some nice touches such as parquet flooring and nice front windows alongside a stab at a modern faux Art Deco servery (with copper top) and bar back. Unusual colour scheme of greeny blue and gold with some wood trim - I imagine some good money was laid down on it all. Just two cask over four pumps. My Headless was OK but flatlining (NBSS 2.5). The barmaid was busy pulling through at least so maybe I got unlucky. Large selection of craftykeg and cans. Card only, inevitably. It might work if you’re in a larger group but as a solo drinker I was happy to drink up and get gone. GBG23 listed. 6.5

On 28^th February 2023 - rating: 6
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