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Real Ale Ray left this review about BeerHeadZ
I thought the beer quality in here to be excellent! I also liked the neat way the barman cleaned the top of the class with some water gadget on the bar counter, before pouring a beer. As Steve mentions below prices in here for a pint were very reasonable. I went for the Hazmat Session Pale, which could have kept me in here for some extra time.
On 10th November 2024
- rating: 8
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Steve of N21 left this review about BeerHeadZ
Located on a side turning from the main tourist artery of Steep Hill, this one is certainly worth the short detour. Very much a modern craft beer bar set up with one large bare wood floored room with a wood panelled serving bar supported by scaffolding poles at the far end, assorted wooden booth and bench seating throughout and funky Lincoln related murals and artwork adorning the walls. Then there is a much smaller seating area to the back left by the toilets.
The bar has two banks for five keg taps at either end which had a decent range of craft ales from different brewers, such as Verdant, Brew York, Lost and Grounded, Magpie Abbeydale, Ten Tun Brew House and Wilde Child with most coming in at under £6 a pint. But it is the two sets of three hand pumps which sit between them which gets BeerHeadz in the current GBG and there were three ales and two ciders available for our visit. The available Ales were Magpie Neck Grease American Pale Ale, Front Row Try Best Bitter and a very delectable Hazmat Session Pale at a wallet pleasing £4.10 for a Londoner.
To be fair this is the type of place that is a bit soulless when it is not busy but put in two large groups on a crawl on the middle tables and fill a few of the others around the side and you have yourself a lively ale house that I would certainly recommend visiting when in Lincoln.
On 5th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about BeerHeadZ
A modern indie beer bar in a former shop unit,the interior consists of a long high table most of the length of the room,a large mural on the left wall with seating below and the bar along the rear wall.The muzak was well chosen and enhanced the visit .
The five handpumps were drawing two ciders,Beer Mats Hazmat Session Pale,Front Row Try and Magpie Neck Grease (decent,NBSS 3.5). The 10 indie beer selection introduced more variety in terms of style and strength (see Untapped for the beer menu) and although this was a brief crawl visit ,I would pop in again and sample some of the keg output.Better than I was expecting,pay attention to the opening times.
On 4th November 2024
- rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about BeerHeadZ
This is a very modern semi-industrial affair, for those disinclined to visit Shoreditch; you can experience the interior on their website, where you can buy ‘merch’.
I went for a half of the Beermats Hazmat, £2.05 a half and fine.
This isn’t really my kind of place, especially given the competition.
On 4th November 2024
- rating: 5
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Graham Coombs left this review about BeerHeadZ
A good beer drinkers' bar in a shop conversion with a reasonable amount of space, fairly typically furnished and with some rather vigorous artwork on the walls. A useful mix of handpumped and keg brews, possibly needing a few more darker ones but good enough. I had a Front Row Try - clearly rugby themed - which was quite drinkable. The sort of place you might drop in to see what was on offer, rather than go for a session.
On 2nd November 2024
- rating: 7
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Will Larter left this review about BeerHeadZ
This is another where I had only recently realised I had not visited, having confused my visit to the sister pub in Melton Mowbray. It's a rough and ready shop conversion with scaffolding poles, empty metal casks with loose wooden seats attached and bare floorboards. I'm not sure this is the pub that the tourist quarter of Lincoln was crying out for. Opening at 3pm when most drinking establishments near the cathedral and the castle are already busy, they seem to have missed the boat. The bar has three cask beers and two ciders on hand pump. My half of Roosters Long Shadow 3.6% was very good (NBSS 3.5) and was only £4/pint. Friendly service and an interesting soundtrack so I wouldn't object to calling in again, but it would not be my first port of call in what is already a good pub town.
On 2nd October 2024
- rating: 5
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Strongers . left this review about BeerHeadZ
Beerheadz is a wooden floored open plan shop converted bar with a wooden serving counter on the rear wall that supports craft keg and three hand pumps that were drawing Abbeydale’s Dr Morton’s Angler Management, Great Newsome Brewery’s Stoney Binks and Beermats Brewing’s Summat Blonde. The counter faces high wood tables that run up the right-hand wall, a long thin wooden table up the centre and wooden booths that run up the left-hand wall. In the front left corner is a raised area with converted keg stools and small tables. At the rear is an overspill area with some seating and no decoration. The service was polite, but it was dead in here during a recent Thursday evening visit when other local pubs were reasonably busy. This isn’t somewhere I’ll be rushing back to.
On 14th May 2023
- rating: 5
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about BeerHeadZ
Chain pub located at the top of Steep Hill, near to the Cathedral in Lincoln. Whilst I'd already been to the much more atmospheric branch at Nottingham station, I'd failed to visit the Melton Mowbray branch, as it was still closed fairly recently.
The pub was fairly quiet on my late Saturday evening visit. Only two other customers were present. The single room has a range of different seating. I was seated on a cask!
A regularly updated beer menu is put onto each table. The two real ales were Burning Sky Plateau & Wickham House Double Hop Jester. Wickham House are a seemingly new Lincolnshire brewery.
Real ciders were Westcroft Janet's Jungle Juice & Gwatkin Red Diesel. Craft beers included Rooster's After The Horse Has Bolted, Porterhouse Oyster Stout, Brick Hatchet Sour & Bone Machine Comfort Zone.
I'd expected a little more from this place. But nevertheless, it's still a place I would return to when next in the city.
On 23rd September 2020
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about BeerHeadZ
Just around the corner from Lincoln’s cathedral and castle, this is a simple single room craft beer bar which forms part of a small chain with branches in Nottingham, Melton Mowbray, Retford and Grantham. The room is roughly square-shaped and has exposed floorboards throughout and the servery along the rear wall. A row of hard-backed bench booths runs down the left-hand side of the room, a high ledge with stools running from front to back through the middle and some small high tables with stools to the right. The walls have been painted white but have a couple of pretty impressive, brightly coloured, expressive abstract artworks painted on both of the side walls, which really give the room some much needed warmth and colour. Elsewhere, the walls have been decorated with framed pump clips, beer posters, brewery art and on the front wall the initials ‘BHZ’ have been written in keg font inserts. The bar has a timber counter supported by some scaffolding, with a colourful bar back with a TV screen to one side listing various draught beer options. The usual Covid precautions apply (hand sanitiser, contact details, table service, visor-wearing staff), but unlike in pretty much every pub we visited in Lincoln, we got in at our first attempt, having to endure no more than a three- or four-minute wait outside for a table to be cleaned.
The TV screen indicated two cask ales were available, which was backed up by the detailed printed beer menu we were also supplied with. Options on this visit were Brass Castle Misfit and Ferry Ales Mosquito. Given that the latter is brewed in Lincoln, I decided to give it a try and found it was a well-kept if fairly unmemorable pint of bitter. Five keg taps were pouring beers from the likes of Kernel, Signature Brew, Ora and Brew by Numbers, so I really needn’t have left London if I’d wanted to drink the craft keg here! A cider and a perry option were also listed on the menu as well as a good range of microbrewery cans and bottles.
This seems like a pretty good craft beer bar with some interesting, well-kept beer, friendly staff and a decent atmosphere. The seating options are fairly uncomfortable, and it would’ve been nice to see more local microbreweries supported, but I felt this place just about hit the spot as an alternative to the traditional ale houses your likely to spend the rest of your time in if crawling in Lincoln.
On 3rd September 2020
- rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about BeerHeadz
Modern bar housed in smallish square room with a limited amount of plain wooden furniture including a few booths mostly built from planks. These sit beside a bright mural but the place is otherwise plainly decorated, with the whole effect feeling a bit spartan (not helped by being almost empty when I stopped by). However, the barman was knowledgeable, and there is certainly an interesting range of draught and bottled / canned beers on offer here. In addition to the ten craft keg taps, there are six handpumps on the counter offering Milestone Cromwell best bitter, Brotherhood's hopped pale ale, a single-hop Ella from North Riding, a blonde from an unknown microbrewery and two ciders.
On 29th June 2019
- rating: 7
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