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Steam Town Brew Co, Eastleigh
Eastleigh
SO50 6AD
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
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 6th December 2024
- rating: 8
[User has posted 554 recommendations about 516 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 3rd December 2024
- rating: 5
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Moby Duck left this review about Steam Town Brew Co
This brew-pub is a breath of fresh air to a town bereft of any other decent watering holes in my view.Five minutes walk from the train station, It has two medium sized rooms yet manages to feel like a micropub, though it's not. Wooden floors, exposed brick walls in the front room with mixed seating, high and low, a piano sits in one corner and a log burner handy for the colder months. In the second room the floor is of polished concrete, the seating is more uniform tables and chairs and all along the back wall is a row of ex first class train seats and tables.In the far corner the Steam Town Brew Co brewery kit is visible through window panels and glass doors.The bar is back in the front room under a giant station clock, with eight handpumps , six for there own range of beers and two for Cider.On the back wall are 16 craft taps. Beers I tried on my slightly extended stay were in cask , Steam Town Stoke Pale , and in keykeg Dark Star Lager and Red Cat Driftwood, all were good. A very good find.
On 7th June 2019
- rating: 8
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Craig O left this review about Steam Town Brew Co
Brewpub and grill.
On 27th February 2018
- no rating submitted
[User has posted 7 recommendations about 7 pubs]