Tap & Bottles, Southport

Blue Scrumpy left this review about Tap & Bottles

The Tap & Bottles is my favourite pub in Southport. If you're looking for a traditional pub, this is not it. But it is located in one of Southport's many arcades and it has an excellent changing range of cask ales, real ciders and craft beers, in addition to further bottles and cans.

Several years ago, there was seating available upstairs. These days, only the toilets can be found up there. However, there is still plenty of seating at ground floor level.

There are 4 handpulls on the bar. These were dispensing Riverhead Floating Light, Southport Carousel, Heritage Charrington's Oatmeal Stout & The Kernel Bitter Wet Hop. Ciders were Seacider Winter Spiced Cider & Hunt's Bull Walloper. Craft beers were Salt Serge, Rooster's Mind Flayer, Torrside Sandinista, Ossett King of Terrors, The Kernel Pale Ale Session, London Stout & Imperial Brown Stout, Holy Goat Damson Porter & Spectral Core Framboise, Silent Brew Cherry & Cacao Imperial Stout, Brew York Dream of Brew York, Yonder Plum & Custard Danish & Little Earth Project Defunkt IPA. The keg cider was Broadoak Triple Vintage.

Wifi is available, if you can find the code amongst all of the other signs around the bar area. A CAMRA discount is offered on Tuesdays only. The beers (and cider) we tried were not as good as the Grasshopper in Hillside earlier in the day but the beer range here is still very good, making it the best choice in Southport town centre.

On 1^st December 2025 - rating: 8
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