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Elder Beer Cafe, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Heaton
Postal town: Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 5LQ
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about Elder Beer Cafe
I seem to get round to visiting Heaton every 7 or 8 years. So, it was that I returned last weekend for the first time since 2017. It is becoming a much more trendy area these days with what seems like a big student population. It's certainly an area that is on the up and the Elder Beer Cafe is typical of the kind of establishment that is springing up.
It's a micropub which has more the feel of a bar than a micropub. There is a single room with the bar to the rear left taking up an inordinate amount of space and leaving seating to the front and near the windows feeling a little cramped. Quite a few of the customers were students, some working on laptops whilst drinking. Music was playing quietly, but conversation rules. A wifi password is available and dogs are welcome. There is a further walled courtyard to the rear, beyond the 2 unisex toilets offering more drinking space. Walls near the toilets have various gig and club night posters.
Both the handpulls and keg taps are behind the bar. Two handpulls on the rear corner had the regular beer Rigg & Furrow Run Hop Run and a guest beer, which was Utopian Best Bitter. Ciders fetched from a cellar but listed on a board above the bar were Dudda's Tun Elderflower Cider & Oliver's Making Hay. Craft beers were Deya Magazine Cover, Steady Rolling Man & Into The Haze, Rigg & Furrow Lunette, O'Hara's Irish Stout, Schofferhoffer Prickly Pear Cactus, Burnt Mill Equal Measures & Vault City Tasty Rainbow. Fridges either side of the bar offer further can & bottle options and takeaway drinks are possible.
I believe another micropub has opened up to the southwest of here. So, I can see myself re-visiting Heaton a little sooner than my usual 7-8 year gap next time. There seems to be enough around here now to warrant a trip out of Newcastle city centre.
On 31st March 2025
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3040 recommendations about 3038 pubs]
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Elder Beer Cafe
Describes itself as a beer café, and that's about right (although micro-pub isn't far off either). Being on a corner, it benefits from having a couple of windows on one side as well as across the frontage, so the seating area is quite light during daylight hours. A pair of cask ales on handpump - the regular Run Hop Run from Rigg & Furrow and Left Handed Giant's Dark Mild (£4.50) - but there are ten craft keg taps on the bar-back, plus a good range of canned beers in the various fridges.
On 12th October 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 8679 recommendations about 8678 pubs]
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aleand hearty left this review about Elder Beer Cafe
Belgian style cafe-bar and bottle shop.
On 1st May 2022
- no rating submitted
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