Mart's Brewhouse & Tap, Stoke-On-Trent

This place looks like a shop conversion and consists of a decent size rectangular room with the bar along the right and the microbrewery in a room on the left. The seating consists of mostly chunky wooden tables and low stools although there are a couple of old sherry casks that make tall tables. There's another room upstairs that I didn't look into. There was no sign of any TVs or fruit machines but there was a sound sytem playing a Tom Petty compilation. The bar has eight hand pumps which had three unused leaving Mart's Early Bird, Nethergate Stour Valley Gold, Muirhouse Tick Tock, Severn Brewing Ruby Beer and Springfield Sweet Lips. I went for the Early Bird (£3.00 discounted) and the Sweet Lips (£3.30) discounted. The Early Bird was slightly hazy but fine apart from that and the Sweet Lips was good. I decided to push the boat out by going for the keg Northern Monk Heathen (£6.20) but caught the end of the keg so got a free half. Spurred on by that I went for the Mart's Float On (£5.00) which was a 6.2% hop bomb. I thought this was a great place and is probably the best beer option in Hanley. It gets a strong 8.