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Rob Hunter left this review about Plug & Taps
Visited on a Thursday afternoon in July. Three of four hand pulls in service for cask ale at the time. This venue is Untappd Verified but unfortunately the beer menu was out of date, with only one of the cask ales listed actually being available on the pumps. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they'd just had a change over, but if a business is going to go to the expense of using a platform like that, they should make it worthwhile and make sure it is up to date.
My Friday's Mild (Fyne Ales) was very pleasant and set me back £2.45 for a half, so a bit more expensive than the other two places I visited on the same day.
I'd definitely be willing to go back, but I don't think I appreciated it quite as much as I did on my previous visit a couple of years prior.
On 17th September 2026
- rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Plug & Taps
Single room micropub which has not changed since I last visited in 2019. There is limited seating inside with the bar against the right-hand wall. We chose to sit on one of the outdoor tables on the pavement to the front.
There are 4 changing cask ales. For our Wednesday afternoon visit, these were North Riding Maple Porter, New Invention Working Theory, Rivington Beach House & Black Lodge Belgian Circus. Craft beers were Glasshouse Daylily, Rivington/Glasshouse From Dusk To Dawn & Pipeline Coffee Eclipse. The keg cider was Iford ABC.
We tried a couple of beers each and all tried were in good condition. Still a good option if crawling around Preston.
On 30th August 2026
- rating: 6
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Rob Hunter left this review about Plug & Taps
Four cask micro pub that also offers craft keg. Some outdoor seating in the form of tables and chairs on the pavement. My North Riding Brewery Walnut Stout was very pleasant and slipped down nicely.
On 9th August 2024
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about Plug & Taps
A brief revisit early weekday afternoon. A bit less magic this time and the seating options weren’t the best (last time I think I stood throughout). My Little Brew Panther was a fair drop (NBSS 3). Tiresome Pride bunting, presumably up for the month in question.
May 2022
Yet another(!) shop to micropub conversion in Preston. My notes are sketchy, verbatim; ‘Tight interior with dark green walls’. It seems like there’s another room upstairs so it looks like my urge to explore had been dulled by this point! Four cask and a slab of craftykeg. My North Riding Toffee Ripple was in good shape (NBSS 3.5). Seemed like a good, well-run place to me. Rated 7.5
On 11th July 2024
- rating: 7
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Al Bundy left this review about Plug & Taps
A very good micropub with 4 handpulls for cask and 10 taps for keggy beers. A good choice of casks and the pub was a friendly place. I'll visit again next time I'm in Preston.
On 26th July 2023
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Ian Mapp left this review about Plug & Taps
Busiest of the micros attended in Preston. They were having some sort of Mexican theme night, with pop up food served from a gazebo outside.
Beer wise - spoiled again, with a good choice and my Rivington in Good condition. Presumably my 5.2% beer was sold in a maximum of schooners to soften the price blow.
On 9th May 2023
- rating: 7
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ROB Camra left this review about Plug & Taps
The last place I visited on the Preston crawl before heading for my train. It feels like a proper micropub with friendly staff and customers. My pint of Wild Spring Forward was in excellent nick and I'd happily have stayed for another.
On 18th May 2022
- rating: 8
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Moby Duck left this review about Plug & Taps
Another winner in Preston, as previously described its a micro/craft bar shop conversion, I went keg on this occassion with A Herald Of Change a collab between Cloudwater and the intrguingly named Girls Who Grind Coffee, I have no recollection of the prices at this stage of the game and was beyond caring but I do remember It was a pretty good place and would eagerly come back.
On 16th May 2022
- rating: 8
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Strongers . left this review about Plug & Taps
Plug & Taps is a shop converted bar that was busy with a friendly crowd late on a recent Friday afternoon. The bar runs up the right wall and there is a beer shelf and stools up the left wall. The four handpumps were drawing Deya It’s All Linked Pale Ale, Wild Beer Co’s Spring Forward, Salopian Time Millionaires and North Ryding Toffee Ripple Porter. In the back bar are ten or so fonts for dispensing craft keg. I found the staff to be friendly and there was a good atmosphere in here.
On 2nd May 2022
- rating: 8
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Steve of N21 left this review about Plug & Taps
Opened in 2018 this is another shop conversion to a micro pub in Preston that is really improving the beer reputation of the town. Set over two levels the downstairs bar area is mainly for vertical drinking only with the exception of the drinking ledge with high stools to the front window and a couple of aluminium tables to the front on the pavement.
And then upstairs past the toilets is a bigger room in a fetching blue decor with lots of additional seating that was being completely ignored by the assembled punters on this early Friday evening.
Primarily focussed on craft ales with a 10 tap wall behind the bar with some interesting options from the likes of Verdant, Cloudwater and The Kernal as well as ones from breweries I was less familiar with. And a 2/3 measure of the cloudwater 6% West Coast IPA would lighten your wallet of a Lady, ( that’s £5 to non cockneys), which I didn’t think was too outrageous for a craft brew. But I was here for the real ale and there are four hand pumps on the front of the bar which had North Riding Toffee Ripple Porter, Salopian Time Millionaires Golden Ale, Wild Beer Spring Forward Session amber ale and Deya It's All Linked Pale Ale.
The strengths and prices are all shown on the chalk board at the end of the bar along with the brewery locations and it was good to see that whoever had the job of writing it had a sense of humour with North Riding described as being in Scarbados.
This is a very good micro and I wish it success.
On 1st May 2022
- rating: 8
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