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Tamworth Tap, Tamworth
Tamworth
B79 7LR
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Reviews of Tamworth Tap (Average Rating: 8½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about Tamworth Tap
We finally paid our first visit to the much revered Tamworth Tap yesterday. With 7 cask ales and 43 ciders, you can see why this pub has become so popular with CAMRA who have made it their national Pub of the Year multiple times.
On our early Saturday evening visit, the queue for the bar was almost out of the front door. It at least gave me time to study the cider list which can be found on a blackboard on the right-hand wall. There are a number of tables on the ground floor. Quite a few individuals/groups appeared to be sharing these. What was left of our party headed upstairs. Rooms are all nicely furnished.
Cask ales on our visit were Crossed Anchors APA, Silent Brew Daybreak, Simple Things Fermentations Toledo, Batham's Best Bitter, Bays Afloat, Otherworld Tuesday's Mild & Tamworth Castle Black. Turnover of ales must be high, as North Pier Citra was also on when I returned to the bar for another round.
Of the 43 ciders, I believe there were 9 I hadn't previously had. I managed to get through 6 of these before we had to move on but I could have spent all day here. The full list of ciders was Venton's Sweet Maid & Thirst Responder, Burrow Hill Medium & Alf and Alf, Seacider Hardcore, Sting Tuck's Tipple, Dowding's Tower Brue Medium & Sweet, Appletreewick Medium, Seidr Ci Ddu Scrumpt & Joost, Old Monty Kingston Black, Beardspoon Ciderfect & Undecider'd, Seb's Medium, Chapel Brink of the Hill, Gwynt y Ddraig Farmhouse Pyder, Kentish Pip Craftsman, Temple Medium & Hendre Huffcap, Fletcher's Original, Ross-on-Wye Suzie's Catch & Helen's Single Varietal Perry, Heck's Farmhouse Medium, Williams Brothers Biffyn & Perry, Sisson & Smith Ellis Bitter, South Hams Vintage & Double Apple, Iford Somerset Sahara, New Tradition & Windfall, Hogan's French Revelation & Lonely Partridge, Udders Orchard Yarlington Mill, Nightingale Tenterden, Lilley's Bee Sting Perry, Pineapple Cider, Mango Cider & Cherries and Berries & Broadoak Pear & Chilli Cider, Sloe Gin Cider & Purple Haze.
If all of that wasn't enough, there are also some craft beers - Verdant The Doorway Effect, Vault City Brainmelting Fluid & Face Froster, Low Key From Here to Forever, Cloudwater Chubbles, Left-Handed Giant PVA, Deya Summer Ale & Steady Rolling Man & Anspach & Hobday London Black.
Service was efficient and knowledgeable and a CAMRA discount is offered on halves and pints and on both ales and ciders. Other customers seemed a friendly bunch. We got talking to quite a few.
This isn't going to be the cheapest place in town. It has earned itself an excellent reputation and can choose to dictate the pricing itself. The sheer number of customers would suggest that it is still affordable.
As pubs go, the Tamworth Tap has it all - a good range of beers and ciders, all in good condition, great service, nice surroundings, a relaxed atmosphere and some friendly fellow customers. Where it falls down slightly for me is the wait to be served. The size of the bar dictates how many staff they can fit behind there. They are quick but demand is so high that you can easily wait 10 minutes for each round. For that reason alone, I cannot give it a maximum 10/10. It has inevitably become a victim of its own success. Nevertheless, I sincerely hope I can return here one day.
On 7th June 2026
- rating: 9
[User has posted 3511 recommendations about 3509 pubs]
Quinno _ left this review about Tamworth Tap
A long-overdue revisit, unfortunately timed for the Wassailing on a Saturday evening so the place was rammed. Pretty much as it was when I was last in six years ago, though the Good Beer Guide book spine steps are new and look impressive. The cask quality was good but not stellar – NBSS 3 and 3.5 – though that may simply have been down to ludicrous turnover meaning stuff was going on a bit earlier than normal. Apparently the garden is very impressive as well these days but it was too wet, cold and rammed to go exploring. Won’t leave an updated rating this time as it was hard to really appreciate the place in sweaty melee but it certainly remains an excellent pub. I can also confirm that door staff were in action when we left, to control the numbers inside – something I have never seen before outside of a gig venue. So visit on a weekday, is my advice.
March 2020
Look and feels like an upmarket micropub on approach but don't be fooled, there are three storeys to this brewpub (Tamworth Brewing Company) with plenty of little rooms and nooks to be found. The action is on the ground floor in a really nice space which is atmospheric; heated bench seating, dried hops strung around and dimmed sodium style filament lamps. Head up the rear stairs for other rooms, each individually styled. To the rear is a tidy garden area with views of Tamworth castle. Eight ales on, two from Tamworth, Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby, Bathams Bitter, Beowulf Dragon Smoke Stout, Wily Fox Karma Citra, Mad Squirrel Sapling Session, Bristol Beer Factory Mission Bay, plus a load of cider. I tried both the Tamworth brews (NBSS 3.5) and the Bathams (3.5 though no sparkler, oddly). The downside was that the two young staff members disappeared for long periods doing chores so you felt like a lemon standing at the empty bar. That said, the lass asked if I was CAMRA (am I that obvious?). It filled up quickly with a relaxed crowd of imbibers. I really enjoyed it in here and it ended-up being my favourite of the day despite some stiff competition. If wasn’t for the Houdini staff it’d have got close to a 10. Rated 9
On 2nd May 2026
- rating: 9
[User has posted 6166 recommendations about 6146 pubs]
paulof horsham left this review about Tamworth Tap
This award-winning venue is, in my view, far too big to be any kind of micropub, with most of the nooks having more seats than the entire Butchers Arms where it all started. Hops, old photographs and beer signs (many of them Belgian) hang on the walls.
On the ale front it's all indie, with the legendary Bathams (Best) as well as Uley, Round Corner, Windsor & Eton and more on the 8 pumps. Keg stuff, meanwhile, seemed relatively mainstream from my brief glance at the taps. Not for the first time in Tamworth, an unsolicited CAMRA discount was offered (I clearly look the part).
A good range of beer, though the seats aren't the best, being a little bit too narrow to comfortably park a beer drinker's backside. Nevertheless, an essential stop for the Tamworth pub crawler.
On 17th December 2025
- rating: 8
[User has posted 663 recommendations about 616 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 20p/pint, 10p/half - last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : No last updated 03 December 2025 by paulof horsham
- Darts : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Function Room : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 15 January 2023 by paulof horsham
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No - Landlord prefers microbrewery - last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : No last updated 07 June 2026 by Blue Scrumpy
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
- WiFi : Yes last updated 02 May 2026 by Quinno _
