Pelican, Manchester

Visited on Saturday evening. No bookings, just walk-ups. Plenty of seating to go at with a choice of low tables or high - the rickety benches are no longer present so perhaps they were temporary. A paper menu is brought to your table and then the staff come back and take your order. I went for the Tropic Fiesta on cask followed by the Cabin Escape on keg - both of which were good. Staff were on the ball and plenty of beers to choose from.

This place is up a few steps and to the right of a cafe. A longish, thinish place with the bar along the rear wall. 14 taps for crafty nonsense and 4 handpulls for real ale. Beatnitz beers obviously to the fore. Not a bad place and probably worth a visit.

This is the replacement Beatnikz brewery tap for the one that used to be on Red Bank within the brewery. It's roughly L shaped with not much in the way of decoration apart from a couple of posters. High tables to the left as you enter and bright orange seating to the right. The keg beers are listed at the rear of the bar on some windows. Only 2 cask ales available on my visit Beatnikz Stout and Pomona Island Mosaic. The Mosaic was in very good nick. Very quiet on my Friday afternoon visit. It's very basic. but maybe it'll work.

A long L shaped room that had plenty of seating, consisting of orange coloured contoured banquette seating along the window side and high bench seating along the opposite wall. The bar area at the far end had a multi coloured Perspex wall, displaying 14 keg choices and three cask beers on the right hand side of the bar. We went for the Australian Gold Coast IPA, which was superb.