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Strongers . left this review about Bison Beer Crafthouse
Bison Beer was the busiest of the bars along this stretch during a recent Saturday afternoon crawl of the area. There’s seating under an awning out the front and inside normal tables and chairs run up the centre between a beer shelf up the right and beer fridges up the left. Steps at the rear climb to the serving counter across the rear wall where six craft keg products from Bison and local breweries were available. I went for their own APA which was a decent drop. The service was polite and the background music was upbeat, so all-in-all this was a good visit and I’d have no problem returning, even though there is no cask.
On 1st May 2025
- rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Bison Beer Crafthouse
Another local Hove bar which doesn't open until 4pm on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I returned to make it my final stop on a Hove crawl and found a small, but reasonably busy bar. Seating is at ground level, with the raised bar up a couple of steps to the rear (at least I think it was a couple, but I may have been missing some out after 15 pubs).
Beers are listed on an Untappd screen behind the bar. All beers are keg and as Paul says below, there is a fridge with further choice. For my visit, there was Verdant Putty, Lost Pier Fruit Machine NEIPA, Moot Brew Sometimes, Only With Love Cruiser & Bison Beer Sea Side APA, in addition to a pilsner.
My Sometimes was a nice (albeit cold) milk stout and a nice enough way to finish my day's drinking. This is not really a destination pub/bar in Hove, but is worth a stop if you happen to be passing by.
On 6th February 2025
- rating: 5
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paulof horsham left this review about Bison Beer Crafthouse
Surprisingly few taps (as in just 6) at this reasonably long-standing Bison outlet. The packed fridges, however, up the choices into the hundreds. With the doors opened out to the small terrace out the front, it's a good example of the modern craft beer bar, though a couple more draft options would be a welcome addition.
On 21st July 2024
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about Bison Beer Crafthouse
Located on the main road from Brighton through the centre of Hove, this is a small craft beer bar run by the local Bison Beer brewery and bottleshop. The bar doesn’t look out of place along this road lined with numerous pubs, restaurants and wine bars, occupying a compact, narrow premises that looks like it might be a shop conversion. You enter via a set of steps to a small front patio overlooking a busy and noisy road with the wind howling around, which made for a pretty wild, raucous place to enjoy a quick pint. A few rickety canteen tables and benches have been set up here and a fixed bench runs around the entire perimeter. Foldable doors at the front of the bar were opened out when I arrived, leading me into the small single room interior with dark floorboards, three high tables with bar stools down the left-hand side and a drinking ledge with more high stools to the right. The left-hand wall has a series of fridges built into large shelving units along its length, all obviously stocked with many bottles and cans, whilst the shelves were strewn with fairy lights and decorated with old beer bottles, cans and other such beer-themed items. The servery is to the rear of the room, up a couple more steps, and has a basic counter in front of a pump clip lined bar back. A couple of TV screens, including one above the bar, were being used to helpfully list the full draught range. Despite having the doors wide open at the front, the room felt like it was dimly lit and this helped create quite a nice, almost cosy feel, although whether I would have felt that perched on one of the high stools, I couldn’t say. The staff didn’t make much effort to ensure track and trace was adhered to and tables were a free for all, which caused me a problem when the final remaining table was snapped up by someone whilst I was ordering at the bar – a problem thankfully resolved by an outdoor table coming free by the time I’d made it back outside.
There were six craft keg beers available along with the aforementioned vast bottle and can selection, and I picked the Lost & Grounded I Wanna Go To The Sun, which turned out to be a nice, hop-forward brew that went down very well as I sat on the patio hoping the gale force wind wouldn’t topple my pint before I’d finished it.
In some respects, this place is a bit of a craft beer bar-by-numbers, but somehow there was something about it that made me feel very content and settled here. If you’re in the area and looking for some interesting craft beers to work your way through, this place is ideal, and I thought it was a nice way of adding something a bit different to my crawl of predominantly cask-led pubs.
On 28th August 2020
- rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about Bison Beer Crafthouse
A Craft Bar and Bottle Shop although cans outnumbered the bottles greatly in the fridges on one side wall of the square room. Simple seating both inside and out on the frontage, the bar servery is at the end of the room on a raised area, there are six keg taps,my Burnt Mill Lemondrop Fog was a decent drop. A very busy place.
On 10th August 2019
- rating: 7
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paulof horsham left this review about Bison Beer
Craft beer bottle shop with on-licence for drinking on the premises
On 23rd February 2018
- no rating submitted
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