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Nailmaker Tap 2, Barnsley

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Unit 2B, Gateway Plaza, Sackville Street
Barnsley
S70 2RD

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Barnsley Central

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Will Larter left this review about Nailmaker Tap 2

I visited this Good Beer Guide listed pub a few years ago when it was the Tipsy Cow and this was my first visit under its new name. It looks much as I remember it, with four hand pumps as noted by Ray in his review from 2019 below. Three of the beers were from the Nailmaker brewery in Darton, with the other being Acorn Talus. I went for Cardinal Sin, a 4.4% "wickedly hopped" pale, which was NBSS 3.5. I wouldn't mind coming back here another time to try one or two more, as the Nailmaker beers are not bad, and if they have Acorn guest beers too, this would be a destination pub.

On 8^th March 2025 - rating: 7
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Old Boots left this review about Tipsy Cow

Tiny micro in the ground floor of some modern building on or near the university. The ground floor bar has a pallet wood counter with 4 pulls, there are also half a dozen keg taps on the rear wall, plus some artisan gin and stuff. There’s a couple of blackboards on one wall listing a load of beers not actually on, 21 there is, so that’ll be an “aspiration” I guess. Toilets and more seating on the heavy metal mezzanine.

On 6^th February 2020 - no rating submitted
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Tipsy Cow

Urban style micro bar, with plenty of grey painted steel work, exposed brick work and some reclaimed timber. The layout in here consisted of a mezzanine first floor, accessible from a steel frame staircase as you enter. A small compact bar was housed in underneath the overhang from the mezzanine first floor and had a reclaimed pine cladded bar front and the counter was finished in polished Ash. Four handpumps on the bar, so we went for the Chantry Brewery Kaldo Pale. This bar was ok when quiet, but couldn't imagine the din when it gets busy, especially when people are clattering around upstairs. We also noticed the prices for the beers, getting slightly elevated around this trendy part of town.

On 9^th May 2019 - rating: 6
[User has posted 3645 recommendations about 3645 pubs]

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