Ship & Mitre, Liverpool

Official site of the Ship & Mitre, with beer festival details and current real ale list - www.theshipandmitre.com

Official site of the Ship & Mitre, with beer festival details and current real ale list - www.theshipandmitre.com

Excellent range of ales yesterday and wished we could have visited for the beer festival due to start 17th. Always made welcome by the friendly staff. Enjoyed the Hydes Heads and Tails, and Derwent W & M Mild.

Liverpool's main permanent beer festival pub, pumps and fonts as far as the eye can see, well almost, I counted 14 hand pulls. There is a constantly changing range of guest beers from smaller UK breweries complemented by European bottles and kegs. A full list, which is usually up to date, is on the wall opposite the North Street door, next to the disgusting Gents, there is also one just inside the bar by the Dale Street entrance although this one is easily missed. Downstairs has an island bar serving two rooms, the Dale Street end having a raised seating area in one corner and is usually the busier part of the pub unless football is on. Plain décor with German brewery signs. The rear bar has a vaguely ocean liner style left over from its “Ship” make over in the sixties or seventies I believe and has the screen for the the footie. I've never been upstairs or eaten here but both are possible. There are regular beer festivals and events, these are listed on a blackboard by the North St entrance. The staff are usually spot on. Customers vary from studenty types, middle aged real ale enthusiasts, OAPs, hippies and various examples of the weird and wonderful lifeforms that frequent Liverpool's pubs.