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Tamworth Tap, Tamworth
Tamworth
B79 7LR
Served areas
Reviews of Tamworth Tap (Average Rating: 8½ of 10) see review guidelines
Will Larter left this review about Tamworth Tap
A chance for a visit between trains on my way back from Milton Keynes - who does not need a beer after being in Milton Keynes? I had barely looked at just one pump clip when the bar tender sprang into action. I asked for a bit of time to peruse the eight cask beers (see photos), and in the meantime please serve the next customer. Are you sure, said both server and customer. I eventually plumped for Hobson's Green Hop, which was in very good nick (NBSS 3.5), though perhaps not as good as some other green hop beers I've had before - not, I hasten to add, down to any fault of the cellaring or presentation, just a slightly underwhelming flavour profile. The atmosphere was pleasant here, with people making room at their tables, and general conversation almost dominating the grating pop music constantly being pumped out of the speakers.
On 29th October 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 4273 recommendations about 3935 pubs]
Strongers . left this review about Tamworth Tap
The Tamworth Tap is a wooden floored shop converted pub with seating across the front and up the right to a staircase to more seating on the first floor, I didn’t wander up on the occasion. Every inch of wall has breweriana including tankards, posters, old clips and a few hops thrown in for good measure. Unsurprisingly there is no television, but there was some 80s background music playing on a recent busy, but still comfortable, Wednesday evening. The eight hand pumps were drawing Great Newsome’s Holderness Dark, Fownd Brewing’s King Korvak’s, Leighton Buzzard Brewing’s Restoration Ale, Batham’s Best, Riverhead Brewery’s Sherbert Lemon, Acorn’s The Last Samurai, Otherworld Brewing’s Acheron and Black Iris Brewery’s Let the Devil In. I went for the Sherbert Lemon which wasn’t great, in fact I took it back up to the bar to let them know it had gone. I was very politely informed that it had only gone on the day before and I wasn’t the first to query the quality, but it was fine to drink and had been served as the brewer intended. I preserved with it and I can report that I didn’t shit the bed so it was just a crap beer… Who the hell orders Sherbert Lemon Ale anyway, doh! I liked the vibe of this pub and would definitely return.
On 20th September 2024
- rating: 8
[User has posted 5963 recommendations about 5929 pubs]
Old Boots left this review about Tamworth Tap
CAMRA national pub of the year two years in a row, at street level a dark woody traditionally furnished single room, there’s a lower level courtyard garden reached via a ginnel at the left hand side of the building and more seating upstairs. Eight pumps of smaller brewery products on the counter half way in, and on a front counter a few kegs and a good number more keg taps lurking in the back area of the servery. Lots of brewery ephemera as decor, hiding in amongst which is a blackboard of “coming soon”, so don’t be mislead as some were, and there’s a laser display screen of what’s probably on. Many Camra awards cover an alcove at the rear called “Camra Corner”. Dangly hops are also part of the decor. The toilets upstairs have urinals which are cut open kegs, ho, ho, ho. I didn’t really get the hype surrounding this place although some of our party did.
On 26th May 2024
- no rating submitted
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- Accommodation : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 10p per pint, 5p per half - last updated 05 September 2022 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 20 March 2018 by Alan Hurdle
- Darts : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 20 March 2018 by Alan Hurdle
- Function Room : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 15 January 2023 by paulof horsham
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No - Landlord prefers microbrewery - last updated 08 April 2018 by Alan Hurdle
- Pinball : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 30 June 2020 by Quinno _
