Café Beermoth, Manchester

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Well described, one large rectangular room with some comfortable booth seating opposite the bar, otherwise largely utilitarian. Lacking any real charm inside, it felt fairly depressing despite the raucous punk rock on the speakers. Wide selection of obscure beers on the taps, a bit difficult to read though and I mistakenly chose 2/3 of a fighting strength IPA… only realised they sold cask afterwards.

Yesterday was my first visit to Cafe Beermoth for over 6 years. It's a fairly inconspicuous bar occupying a large, modern building. There's a good range of both cask and keg beers along the bar. Whilst there are handpulls at the rear of the bar, there are no pumpclips on display and it's not easy to identify which of the beers listed are cask and which are keg. However, on our Saturday afternoon visit, cask beers turned out to be Left-Handed Giant Beer Number 7, The Kernel Dry Stout Cashmere, Runaway Queen Bees & Stone's Throw, Cloudwater Strata In Your Heart, Squawk Pavo & RedWillow Faithless 191. Craft beers were Rivington Days of Candy & Poison of Madness, Schlenkerla Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche - Doppelbock, Cloudwater Good Bubble, Jester King Hazy IPA, 100 Degrees, Spon Three Year Blend & Doom Forge & Saint Mars of the Desert D'Or Mouse. There were no ciders that I could see. I'm not a fan of the industrial decor and staff behind the bar seemed a bit gormless and were overhwelmed by a group of 7 of us walking in. In addition, there's no wifi here, which is particularly frustrating when there's no phone signal either. This place undoubtedly has a great beer selection, but lacks in terms of atmosphere and service. Handy if you fancy something a little different, but not really a place to linger.

Café Beermoth is a large rectangular open plan industrial bar with a hint of BrewDog, but with the addition of cask ale. The bar counter runs along the rear wall to the right and along the glass back bar, which looks into the cellar room at the rear, are ten craft keg fonts split down the middle by seven hand pumps. I went for a Buxton Gatekeeper, a porter that was spot on. A fridge is stocked with cans for those who like to take-away. Booths run along the front windows and high benches with stools run off the central supporting pillars. There are stairs, but I didn’t venture up. The service was very friendly so I would return, but this isn’t somewhere I would stay for more than a couple of pints.

Looks very much like a semi-industrial BrewDog-style craft beer bar (which it undoubtedly is) but seven of the 17 taps on the bar-back are handpumps, so real ale is also very important here too... Spoilt for choice, I went for This Land from Odyssey (£4.80) which proved to be a rewarding - if deliberately hazy - pint.

Visited this 2022 Good Beer Guide pub on 11.8.22 and it was a delight with a lot of cask beers as well as craft so there was plenty of choice. We enjoyed a Newbarns Pale Ale with Chinook, Talus and Ekuanot hops.

At the base of an anonymous office block and that feeling is replicated within, dark and fairly drab. There's a row of booths running along the front but if you can't bag one of those then it's uncomfy chair and tall stool options. Talking Heads on the stereo, because of course. Seven cask emerging from the back wall that I could make out, in small font and not very punter-friendly. LHG Dark Mild fairly flat and uninspiring (NBSS 2) plus a load of crafty keg options. Prices reasonable, at least. Not persuaded to hang around, this all felt very perfunctory outside of nosing through the more whacky craft and bottled options which I would be minded to do if I visited again. GBG ’22 listed.