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Steam Town Brew Co, Eastleigh

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1 Bishopstoke Road
Eastleigh
SO50 6AD

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Eastleigh Town, Bishopstoke

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Strongers . left this review about Steam Town Brew Co

I popped into Steam Town Brew House late afternoon on a recent Thursday when it was comfortably busy with a mixed age crowd. I was unaware of the first class carriage seating in the room to the rear, so I stayed in the bare board floored bar area where there are beer shelves, standard tables and repurposed barrel tables to sit at. The serving counter is in the middle of the rear wall where craft keg fonts run across the tiled back bar and eight hand pumps sit on the bar, six of which were in use drawing two ciders and Steam Town’s own NZ Pale, Stoke, Barton and Northern Soul, the latter of which was also the genre of music playing in the background. Regular live music is advertised for the weekends. There were two polite members of staff efficiently working the bar and another was delivering the food, which seemed to mainly consist of burgers. I ended up perched at a beer shelf to the left of the bar where there was a handy plug to charge my phone while I enjoyed both the Northern Souls on offer. Worth a look.

On 4^th May 2025 - rating: 8
[User has posted 6134 recommendations about 6100 pubs]

paulof horsham left this review about Steam Town Brew Co

It's a noisy walk over a long bridge carrying plenty of traffic between the town centre and the Steam Town Brewery Tap, with a pedestrian crossing to navigate before you get inside.

Once you've navigated the external obstacles, you'll enter the bar area, where it's mostly wood, with 5 handpumps for ale and several more for cider. Plenty of keg taps extend the choice and the homebrew is competitively priced and good quality.

Just around the corner, en-route to the toilets, is the 'restaurant', where the offer is the usual modern brewery choice of burger or dirty fries. A novel touch is that the seating is, in part, comfortable former 1st class train seats, though you may have to sit on a plastic bench instead if the place is busy.

Actually getting your hands on any of this, however, takes considerably longer than you'd expect with the bar only staffed occasionally from what I could tell and, while table service is advertised in the restaurant, that too was a bit hit-and-miss. All of those who I dealt with were excellent, it has to be said.

There's much to like about this place, which the annoyances shouldn't detract from. Get a grip, and it'd be as good as anywhere.

On 6^th December 2024 - rating: 8
[User has posted 561 recommendations about 523 pubs]

Quinno _ left this review about Steam Town Brew Co

Brewpub the ‘wrong way’ from town but only 5 mins from the station over the bridge. It’s a fairly modern stripped-back feel with bare brick, heavily scuffed wood boarded floor and old barrels/cable spindles for tables. Of interest was the iron lower servery, what is 'Seacow?' Also a small amount of rail ephemera which I assumed encompassed the jumbo hanging clock that looked like rail station salvage. This theme continues with old first class rail seats in rear room, encountered on the way to the toilets which stank of piss – quite an achievement given it was only 5pm in the middle of the week. Drinks-wise, there were four of their cask at the bar alongside two ciders and a plethora of keg. Decided to sweep the cask board and got a mixed bag out – NBSS 2, 2.5, 3 and one that kicked-up and got replaced with minimal fuss with a new barrel (NBSS 4). All mildly disappointing on paper for a GBG pub; whilst it was a wet Tuesday late afternoon it’s concerning that nobody was pulling listless liquid through that had clearly been sat for a long old time - in a brewpub there should be much more pride and willingness to off a few mils of beer for freshness’ sake. Useful to know about if you're changing trains here but I can’t see myself returning when the Spoons is closer to the station and selling better quality cask at half the price. 5.5

On 3^rd December 2024 - rating: 5
[User has posted 5589 recommendations about 5570 pubs]

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