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Tutbury & Hatton on Tuesday, 14th April 2026 with rpadam
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Guinness Open Gate
First visit to the new(ish) Guinness theme park, apart from a quick walk through when Old Brewer's Yard was rammed shortly after it opened. Unless you want to pay for the various 'experiences' or use one of the upmarket restaurants, this open air seating area for the compact bar is the only place to go. Both usual versions of 'the black stuff' available of course, along with the Porter (£7.45), Pale Ale, IPA and Lager brewed on site.
On 9th February 2026
- rating: 4
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David Walton left this review about Guinness Open Gate
Visited 17/12/25
Obviously, no cask. In addition to many taps offering the staple, they also had their own Porter, Pale Ale, IPA, Lager, Dark Lager, the AF version of the staple. They were also offering the Winter Warmer, Belgian Wit and Apricot Sour but I didn't spot any taps for those beers.
The main bar seems to be quite a small affair in the yard (Old Brewer's Yard) behind the smaller of the two shops accessed off Neal St. You can also enter the yard directly off Shelton St or through the walkway (you can't miss it) from Langley St (where the much larger shop is located and the start point for brewery tours). OBY is a cobbled affair with a bunch of patio style metallic and padded chairs serving regular tables, only part of which is covered. There is very limited covered standing space by the bar counter. A food wagon was parked in OBY offering own branded food. Not surprisingly the venue was very busy on my pre-Xmas lunchtime visit ahead of a lunch nearby. Inside restaurants are the Porter's Table on the ground floor which seemed to have a bar counter but unclear whether you could just pop in for a drink (it was heaving on my visit, so I didn't try) and Gilroy's Loft on the 5th floor. The Guinness Vaults seem to be an events space.
On 9th February 2026
- rating: 4
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Tris C left this review about Guinness Open Gate
Oh and by the way: if you want, you can get your selfie *printed* onto the head of your Guinness; I kid you not.
On 19th December 2025
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Tris C left this review about Guinness Open Gate
This place opened six days ago, comprising a Guinness brewery (though not for Guinness) in an enormous complex just off Covent Garden’s Long Acre.
This is a multipurpose venue, with brewery and tours, substantial merchandise and outdoor drinks’ dispensary in a courtyard patrolled by more security guards than Colditz. The bar area is black granite topped with drinks’ kegs behind Perspex to the rear. Then there’s utilitarian furniture to the cobbled courtyard – Old Brewer’s Yard – where the young congregate to partake of the favoured boisson de nos jour of their favourite YouTube ‘influencers’ (see photo); there’s a Guinness food van, but it was shut at the time of my Tuesday 9.30pm visit.
Aside from Guinness, there are their keg offerings in the form of Open Gate Porter, Pale Ale, IPA and Lager, all £7.45 a pint, served by friendly bar staff. Unsurprisingly my half of Guinness was fine, though given the outside temperature it was no surprise that the Extra Cold version wasn’t available, as it was extra cold whether you wanted it to be or not.
There’s a certain novelty factor here and Covent Garden is hardly a hotbed of quality hostelries, but curiosity satisfied, I can’t see a reason to return, but if it gets the Guinness drinking fan club out of pubs, then I’m all for it.
On 17th December 2025
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