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UnBarred Brewery & Taproom, Brighton
Brighton
BN1 4GF
Served areas
UnBarred Brewery
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Moby Duck left this review about UnBarred Brewery & Taproom
With two very recent descriptions below there's not much to add, it was very busy early evening on a Saturday, the cask beers were Unbarred Best and Roosters Democracy Manifest, plenty of craft keg options from the twenty taps.
If you like taprooms this is not a bad option.
On 11th March 2026
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2291 recommendations about 2255 pubs]
David Walton left this review about UnBarred Brewery & Taproom
Visited 28/12/25
Cask was two hand pumps providing their Best Bitter and the Player 1 Black IPA. Mostly their own keg brews, Joozy hazy pale ale, the Casual pale ale, the Helles lager, the Brighton Strong a Belgian golden ale, the collab with Riddle & Finn (they have a couple of fish orientated restaurants in this neck of the woods) outputting the Shimmer pilsner, two (pretty magical) imperial stouts called Stoutzilla (one bourbon barrel aged and the other rum barrel aged), another hazy pale called Pale Be Back, the Low Key AF pale ale, the Pebble Table Beer, Black Rock their whiskey stout then the alcoholic ginger beer from Dusty’s and the Pilot cider from Asencion.
Tap room of the Brighton brewer Unbarred. There is a seating area out the front partly covered. Inside the seating is a mixture of tall tables with tall unbacked stools and some benches with appropriate long bench seats. The venue is ceramic tiled with the bar counter along the rear wall to the right-hand side of the venue. The brewing equipment is along the left-hand edge and then the rear of the venue to the left of the bar counter. Some take away beer fridges in the front right-hand corner, but they were a little depleted on our visit. You can order in pizza from a good pizzeria in the Laines (OK we did, but tghen you need to eat if you are quaffing Imperial Stouts). 100% will return.
On 9th February 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 1349 recommendations about 1332 pubs]
Blue Scrumpy left this review about UnBarred Brewery & Taproom
I last visited this brewery taproom shortly after it opened in 2019. Since then, I've tried several UnBarred beers and have been fairly impressed. So, I was looking forward to an interesting selection here. In the event, they had just 5 of their keg beers on (no cask at all). These were Joosy, Casual Pale, Brighton Strong, Low Key & Lil Apple Pie. Guests were The Kernel Table Beer, Burning Sky Arise & Anspach & Hobday London Black. The cider was Ascension Pilot.
I chose the Joosy and the Lil Apple Pie. Both were fine but I'd been hoping for a dark beer of some description.
Much of the indoor space is taken up by the brewing equipment. On our Saturday evening visit, there was no available seating inside. So, we sat on the (partly) heated patio at the front, which was also fairly busy. Unisex toilets are just behind the bar and they weren't in the best of states with floods of who knows what on the floor and overflowing waste paper bins.
I'd previously scored this as a 7/10 on another site. Downgrading my score to a 6/10 based on the lack of beers, indoor seating and clean toilets on this visit. Perhaps I chose the wrong time to visit?
On 2nd February 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3409 recommendations about 3407 pubs]
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Brighton, 0.86 miles, 16 min walk (show)
Preston Park, 1.32 miles, 25 min walk (show)
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- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 21 October 2018 by paulof horsham
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- Child Friendly : Yes - Till 8pm, according to notices - last updated 21 October 2018 by paulof horsham
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- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 21 October 2018 by paulof horsham
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