Winckley Street Ale House, Preston

Great range of intresting ales - on keg and cast. External seating. Interior, I think I was sitting on reclaimed church furnishings. Very pew like. Electronic score board needs to be closely observed so you can prepare for the pricing shock. Most beers sold in thirds, halves, schooners and pints. If I told you Preston were selling Kernel IPA 6.8% for £9 a pint, would you believe me?

Small, modern L shaped shop-conversion bar aimed at the Preston hipster(s), exposed brick and spray paintings on the walls, bench seating etc. Three samey cask over four pumps (the spare was being used as a blue roll dispenser!), my Mobberley Cheshire Pale was in good nick (NBSS 3.5) and surprisingly cheap at 3 quid for a pint. Also a selection of craft and bottles, unexplored by me. Shame it's not still called the Otter's Pocket, I wanted a pic of myself outside with the sign for a Viz tick. Anyway, this is worth its place on the crawl list. GBG ’22 listed.

A nice comfortable shop conversion with a reasonable selection of both cask and keg beer, I opted for a pint of Moberley Cheshire pale which was pleasant enough. Certainly a pub to visit on any future Preston trips.

Winckley Street Ale House is a shop converted bar that has tables with chairs and pew seating at the front faced by a bar that supports four handpumps. One of these was being used as a blue roll holder, but the other three were drawing Brewsmith Pale, Mobberley’s Cheshire Pale and Twisted Wheel’s Speed Wobble. I went for a pint of Cheshire (3.9%) at a very reasonable £3. The back bar is lined with 10 keg fonts that were dispensing seven craft beers and Guinness. Food is available, the burger and chips is priced at £7.77. In the left rear is some booth seating and a burner is in a small fireplace adjacent to the front seating area. There was some low background music playing and one of the two huge televisions was on with a display of the available beers. The service was very friendly and surroundings comfortable so I would visit here again.