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Beer of the Week (w/e 5th May 2024) with aleandhearty
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Submitted on Tuesday, 30th April 2024
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Northern Monkey, Bolton
Bolton
BL1 1JT
Served areas
Reviews of Northern Monkey (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Ian Mapp left this review about Northern Monkey
Sort of best and worst of experiences. Worst - overun, inexperienced bar staff who had lost control of a busy bar and were standing behind looking like rabbits caught in the headlights. Asking punters who is next is never going to end well when 2 deep.
Packed - with too many kids running riot, I moved outside where I had the best of pub experiences. Getting involved in great beery chat with a couple of guys who i shared a table with.
Beer was very good - a traditional cask bitter, which I failed to record in Untappd as my new friends were too entertaining.
GBG 2024
On 30th April 2024
- rating: 5
[User has posted 1347 recommendations about 1333 pubs]
Brainy Pool left this review about Northern Monkey
I came here a few months ago but appears I forgot to submit my review. It’s a modern single room craft beer bar on two levels which was very lively on a Saturday night. The pool table in particular was seeing a lot of action. I enjoyed a swift half of chocolate stout but it was a touch too busy to be enjoyable, i’ll surely return though. For beer it’s right up there as one of the best in the area.
On 5th January 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1058 recommendations about 1023 pubs]
Steve C left this review about Northern Monkey
Northern Monkey is a split level bar with high tables at street level across the front windows before a step down to the sunken bar area with serving counter that runs across the rear wall. Craft keg is available alongside four hand pumps. This is Northern Monkey Brew Co’s tap so their Reeny’s Beans and Dirty Harry were available alongside Chapter Brewing’s Kandata and Vocation’s Pride & Joy, the latter being on good form. There’s a pool table and there was some background music playing. This is a decent bar, so I was surprised that there were only three or four other customers during my recent early midweek evening visit. The crap fizz barns were all busier, which is very depressing.
On 29th August 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 5268 recommendations about 5236 pubs]
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : Yes - Until 8 p.m. - last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Darts : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 10 July 2023 by Blue Scrumpy
- Jukebox : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : Yes - Sunday afternoon - last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : No last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 10 July 2023 by Blue Scrumpy
- WiFi : Yes last updated 18 March 2020 by ROB Camra
