Beerwolf Books, Falmouth

Upstairs bar, popular with students, chunky wood tables, dark and moody, with some window seating and a pool table. Good choice of local Cornish beers.

Beerwolf Books is situated up a passage off Market Street. Once inside you have to go upstairs,when up the steps you first see the book cases full of books,the bar area is to the right,this is a decent sized area,the floor is bare boarded. The seating is pew seats and chairs and normal tables which chairs and small stools. The room has lots of different areas. There was a decent choice of real ales on the bar,we had a drink of Penzance Lodestar,which was a nice drink,the other real ales noted were Penzance Mild and Hoptimystic,Dynamite Valley Viaduct Pale and Marble Bitter. There was a full size table tennis table in use to the left,the ball was going everywhere,we were hoping it would roll down the steps,out of the front door and then down the hill,while watching the players chase after it,a shame it never happened. A quirky pub that we both liked. Pub visited 13/8/2017

Really is a bookshop, but the upstairs space is shared with a very pleasant alehouse-style bar. Lots of wood and exposed brick, with a mix of seating in various small areas. Also has some outside seating in the courtyard you pass through as you approach. Four interesting Blackjack beers on handpump, plus Chocolate Marble as a guest, but all at high strength so I opted for just a half of the 7% Red Rye Saison (£2.25) on a precautionary basis. Also had three of four separate handpumps behind the counter dispensing various ciders.

Easily missed, tucked away down a narrow passage off the main retail street, and set in an unusual building that was once a maritime storage loft, this is a strange hybrid of pub and bookshop. The loft is accessed via a staircase from the main entrance and upon reaching the landing at the top, you are immediately confronted with the bookshop part of this enterprise. Set into a recessed space at the back of the building, there are lots of neatly arranged shelves and display tables full of reasonably priced secondhand books covering a range of subjects. The area is fairly self-contained which means it's easy to visit either the pub or shop without giving much regard to the other, should you wish. The pub occupies the rest of the loft, with the servery to the right of the centrally positioned staircase. The room is bare boarded with modern wood panelled walls, a stone fireplace to the rear and a lot of old portraits and paintings on show. There's a good mix of seating available including pews, benches and low stools around the bar area and to the rear, and standard chairs and pews in the space behind the staircase, including in a small recess at the front of the room. The bar has a nice curved dark wood counter and plain panelled bar back dominated by a large mirror and to one side is a board listing all of Falmouth Working Men's Club's life members - a nod to the building's use prior to the current venture. The room has a high gabled ceiling from which all manner of bits have been suspended, including Chinese lanterns, kettles, cameras, fairy lights and disfigured dolls. The left hand portion of the room serves as something of a games area, dominated by a ping pong table which was proving popular with adults and kids alike. Some nooks along the left house a couple of retro pinball machines and the retro theme was further enhanced by the presence of old clocks, lamps and other such bits lifted straight from your childhood memories. A few people were playing board and dice games and I spotted a couple of carrom boards propped up in a corner, so what with all the games and reading material available, you're unlikely to get bored here - a point underlined by various posters and flyers for an expansive range of events scheduled for the coming weeks. As if all this were not enough, there is also a pretty good range of ales available, with the line-up on my visit comprising Kinder Half Centurion and Light Railway, Penzance Mild, Wylam Jake Head IPA and Black Jack Moorbrook Pale. Four cider/perry options were also available and there were a couple of interesting keg options as well. I tried the Moorbrook Pale, which was in good shape but a little bland compared to the high standards usually set by this brewery. I really liked this quirky place and thought it worked well as both a pub and bookshop. It seems that the place acts as a hub for the local creative community and I can't think of any other pub that attracts such a diverse range of patrons who were using the place for a wide variety of purposes simultaneously. This was my introduction to Falmouth's pub scene and I found it was a tough one to better - well worth a visit.