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BrewDog Reading, Reading

Pub added by Quinno _

11 Castle Street
Reading
RG1 7SB

Phone: 01189505555

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Reading Central

Reviews of BrewDog Reading (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) Add Review see review guidelines

Mild Drinker left this review about BrewDog Reading

On entering you are met with bare brick walls and plenty of booths. A big screen listing all the Brewdog beers is above the bar. Tried a couple at £6.55 a pop. Food menu looks decent although I didn't try anything. Wasn't very busy on my Thursday evening visit. Would probably come back give it another go as it seems pretty chilled in here.

On 13^th March 2025 - rating: 6
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john gray left this review about BrewDog Reading

The usual industrial interior for a Brewdog pub but I like that.Bit big and cavernous when few customers around.Hard to find a sensible strength beer amongst the guest beers.Had a superb (pastry stout) by Brewdog -confectionist perfectionist that was sweet enough to rot your teeth.

On 7^th December 2019 - rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about BrewDog Reading

The wheel spins again…and BrewDog are in town, so you’d expect them to finally break the curse of this building being able to host a viable bar business. They’ve done a good job inside if you like the industrial chic thing; grey floor, wood plank and exposed brick walls, central strip seating and caged booths. There’s also an odd tiered wood posing area, which apparently will get used for ‘talks’ but on my visit was populated by the alpha poseurs. So it’s the usual BrewDog setup and pricing at the bar, which will certainly get an audience from the offices in Reading. I stuck to the BrewDog beers and I was pretty underwhelmed by most of them, really. Pretty busy for a Wednesday night a few weeks after opening so the novelty either hadn’t yet worn off or it’s genuinely going to be popular. I guess we’ll see how it looks on a wet Wednesday night in November.

[as Public Reading]
June 2017
Another year, another name (‘Public Reading’ – eh?). It's now a games-themed cocktail bar and nightspot.

July 2016
Closed, perhaps unsurprisingly.

[as Rynd]
August 2015
Has now re-opened as Rynd 'bar and kitchen'. Done out like a North American log cabin. Keg, cocktails and small selection of bottles (though the Kernel was £5.50 so gave that a swerve). Two halves of Staro came out as pints and I was relived of £9.80 for the privilege. Never again!

[As Dogma]
March 2012
Looks like they've given up on the idea of selling ale on the evidence of my last two forays into the place.

18 February 2008
More slow than Stephen Hawking with a flat battery in his chair. Both my ales (Pride and Brakspears) were poor, flat and had a head so big that you could put a Flake in and call it a 99. Barmaid seemed perplexed by request for a top-up. Guess what, sparklers on the pump. *Sigh* Not a place for ale drinking. Still, this is mainly a cocktail bar and the cocktails were made from fresh – commendable, but do you really have to squish raspberries through a little sieve into the glass each time you make one? Couldn't they be squished in bulk at 4pm and kept in a Tupperware box in the fridge? That's why it takes so long to get served…