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Liverpool Brewing Co Brewery Tap, Liverpool
Liverpool
L1 1JN
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Reviews of Liverpool Brewing Co Brewery Tap (Average Rating: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Rob Hunter left this review about Liverpool Brewing Co Brewery Tap
Visited back in May on a Friday afternoon. Six cask with all clipped including one Seacider. I went for the Fat Rat (Choc and Peanut Butter) at a rather expensive £3 for a half.
Last time I was in here it was the Sanctuary bar; it's now Liverpool Brewing Co but in some kind of cruel irony there were no Liverpool Brewing beers available and I believe the brewery has actually ceased trading. Presumably these premises were a separate entity and unaffected, or this side of the business has been taken over and for some reason kept the old name. Who knows? It currently feels like it's in limbo and has lost its identity somewhat.
Back to the pricing, this is one of those places that has a disparity between the price for a pint and a half. Look at the following for example:
£4.50 pint / £2.60 half
£4.80 pint / £2.90 half
£5.00 pint / £3.00 half
£5.50 pint / £3.00 half
I know some people will defend this practice but I'm not a fan personally; rounding up to the nearest 10p or even 20p isn't too bad but anything more than that starts to feel like a money grab.
Anyway back to business, the bar and main seating area is on the ground floor as you would expect, with a downstairs (basement) level area with more seating and the toilets - not investigated on this visit.
I was the only customer though one chap did leave just before I entered at around 12:45pm, so they at least had two customers that day. Hope it gets busier in the evenings or it doesn't bode well for the place. It's mainly bench seating with some tables and chairs plus some stools at the bar, which must make it a pain getting served during busy periods.
There was a bit of an odd vibe to the place, that combined with the beer pricing made it a 6/10 for me, though the beer selection was decent enough and I daresay if I visited at a better time it could easily become a 7/10.
On 7th September 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 989 recommendations about 744 pubs]
Will Larter left this review about Liverpool Brewing Co Brewery Tap
For my "catch up" trip to Liverpool, I remembered coming here a few years ago with Real Ale Ray. There was no way I was going to make notes for a review while out with Ray, so the pub was enjoyed but not reviewed. Today's visit found this small shop-conversion brewery tap less crowded than I remembered, probably because it's only 5pm. My visit was slightly marred by a couple of bar hangers who chatted constantly to the barmaid - it's not often that background music is drowned out by just two people, but this is Liverpool, after all. My beer of choice was Salopian Entire Butt 4.6%: "an intricate blend of 14 malts and four hops" according to the blurb, a new beer to me, though I know it from reading about beer history. Other beers included local Higsons Pale Ale, but I'd had their Bitter previously in another pub, so resisted temptation. This is a rough and ready micropub, and likely not to everyone's taste, but worth a look in.
On 13th January 2026
- rating: 7
[User has posted 4910 recommendations about 4493 pubs]
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Strongers . left this review about Liverpool Brewing Co Brewery Tap
Liverpool Brewing Co Brewery Tap had a handful of locals sat at the U-shaped wooden pallet counter that runs up the right during a recent late Monday afternoon visit. This counter faces padded bench seating and tables up the left and a beer shelf that runs across the floor to ceiling front windows either side of the central entrance. A sign above the door at the rear advertises some downstairs seating and a dartboard, but I didn’t investigate. Eight craft keg fonts run across the wooden back bar and the counter supports six hand pumps that were drawing Salopian’s Darwin’s Original, Lunebrew’s Lune Valley Gold, Black Lodge Brewery’s Deer in the Forest, Wily Fox Brewery’s Craft Fox, Bank Top’s Port O’Call and a Lilley’s cider. The Crafty Fox was on good form, but very pricey at £2.90 for a half, especially considering it’s only 4%. There is a Nepalese street food business attached called Momos, but they don’t open in a Monday. The service was polite and I enjoyed the rock background music, but the Vines over the road is more interesting and much cheaper so I doubt I’ll be visiting here again.
On 10th May 2025
- rating: 6
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- Accommodation : No last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : No last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 30p per pint - last updated 10 August 2026 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Darts : Yes - Downstairs - near the toilets! - last updated 13 January 2026 by Will Larter
- Function Room : Yes last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes - Nepalese street food - last updated 13 January 2026 by Will Larter
- Jukebox : No last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Karaoke : Yes last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Live Music : Yes last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Micropub : No last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Pool Table : No last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Quiz Night : No last updated 07 October 2018 by Al Bundy
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 12 September 2017 by ROB Camra
