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The Barrel House, Kendal
Kendal
LA9 7DE
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Barrel House
Small brewery tap house with mezzanine in part of the brewery building. Wood seats. Beer is excellent
On 22nd July 2026
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1616 recommendations about 1593 pubs]
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Will Larter left this review about The Barrel House
I like Bowness Bay's beers, but in this brewery tap they were being served too cold - much too cold - into tall, thin, half-pint glasses which did nothing to help them display their quality. I know there was some flavour lurking in there somewhere - I've had them before and I had them again over the course of my holiday in the Lake District - but to find them served like this in the brewery's own tap room was very disappointing. There were a few Sunday afternoon drinkers being entertained, if that's the right word, by a singer with an acoustic guitar who managed to make Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land sound like a funeral march or dirge. Perhaps he was being paid in beer and this was his protest song.
On 13th February 2023
- rating: 3
[User has posted 4842 recommendations about 4430 pubs]