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Grey Horse Inn, Manchester
Manchester
M1 4QX
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Brainy Pool left this review about Grey Horse Inn
nice traditional pub with a very friendly and jovial landlord, albeit absolutely tiny - just one small room with a few tables. Four Hydes ales in decent nick and at decent prices. Worth a look if perhaps not a ‘must do’, it’s slightly brewery sterilised in a way that the Circus Tavern isn’t.
On 11th March 2023
- rating: 7
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Gill Smith left this review about Grey Horse Inn
Visited this Hydes Good Beer Guide 2022 pub on 11.8.22 and found it to have a friendly locals atmosphere. We enjoyed Hydes Dark Ruby, and the other was Ralf + Alf Fruity Pig also brewed by Hydes.
On 21st August 2022
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about Grey Horse Inn
Bijou Hydes pub with a lot of character. Up a few steps to enter to a traditional wood-heavy main bar with a lovely wood panelled circular servery. Quiet compared to nearby outlets but I had a good laugh with the middle-aged locals who were in supping. Five cask with a distinct lack of turnover unfortunately, the Original was a bit pump tired (NBSS 2.5) and the 1863 just passed muster (3). I really liked the place as a pub but the ale didn’t convince (a Manchester city centre theme over the years). GBG ’22 listed. 7.5
On 16th May 2022
- rating: 7
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Steve C left this review about Grey Horse Inn
The Grey Horse Inn is a tiny little pub with a U-shaped bar on the left wall that faces six small tables that run along the right hand wall. These tables are split by a small wall that has a beer shelf attached to maximise drinking space. The bar supports a premium keg range and also Carlsberg. There are five hand pumps, that were drawing Hydes own Original, Hopster, Dark Ruby and Lowry. I have noted “Prague” as being on the fifth pump, but I cannot find it and my phone may have autocorrected. There are a couple of televisions for showing live sports, although there is a slight delay between them, apparently. Out the back is an “outside – inside” toilet where you stand inside and pee into an old Victorian drain gutter. There are a couple of pubs in Brighton with the same set up. I found the service to be very friendly and the atmosphere was spot on, especially when compared to next door. Well worth a visit.
On 15th February 2022
- rating: 9
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Grey Horse Inn
Cracking little Hydes pub, about the size of the smallest backstreet local you can think of but right in the city centre. Full (but that doesn't take much), but just managed to get the last seat. The best pub atmosphere I have experienced since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Gents toilets located across the small yard out back. Grey Horse. On this long overdue revisit (my first for ten years), I found three of five handpumps in use, dispensing Original, Lowry and Old Indie (£3.13). Remains well worth seeking out.
On 17th September 2021
- rating: 8
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Old Boots left this review about Grey Horse Inn
Looking pretty much like an unspoiled city centre pub, it's a single room with an horseshoe shaped counter to one side, bench seating and a few cast iron tables with stools, a modernish window looking out onto Portland St, er that’s it. Simple but nice. Five pulls, Hyde’s Bitter and Mild although with daft names, and Hyde’s Lowry and a rugby themed special, the other beer looked like a guest from a local small brewery. A mirror and some old photos form the decor.
On 13th March 2020
- no rating submitted
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Ian Mapp left this review about Grey Horse Inn
Struggle to find a more traditional boozer.
Maybe next door - at the Circus Tavern :-)
Single roomed. Good Beer Guide 2020 Entry. Handful of handpulls - I had a Winters Tale and couldn't find anything about it on Untappd, so don't know the brewery. Fine beer for the season.
On 16th December 2019
- rating: 7
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Rob Hunter left this review about Grey Horse Inn
Saturday afternoon visit. I have only been in here once before, must be about five years ago, and it was smaller inside than I remembered. It's a nice little pub, with five cask ales at the bar, which is about one different ale for every table in the pub. When I visited there was Hydes Original, Zesty Jester (Kansas Avenue), Old Indie (Hydes), Jutland (Hydes), and something by Brew House(?) that I didn't make a proper note of.
The lady serving, who I assumed to be the landlady, was pleasant and friendly and seemed calm and in control of her pub.
It's a small pub so I deliberately planned to go in the afternoon when it would be less busy, in fact this was the first visit of a bit of a crawl on Saturday. A better selection of ales than I was expecting.
On 16th August 2018
- rating: 7
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Soup Dragon left this review about Grey Horse Inn
A narrow but tidy little Hydes pub. The interior has a single room the curves around the bar in white and wood panel, with old photos of Manchester on the walls. Still has bench seats, as well as tables and chairs - so quite traditional. Music was at a decent level and there are a few TVs showing sport in silence. The service was fine and the clientele mature. There were 5 real ale handpulls from the Hydes stable: Original, Zesty Jester, Captain Bill, and a decent Den Haag Ale and Old Indie MILD. I really liked it here and would definitely go back.
On 21st July 2018
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Grey Horse Inn
Tiny but lovely traditional Hydes pub, wood floor boards, beams, tiny curved bar adjacent the entrance. Some small tables with stools around the walls. It does have a couple of small TV screens for sport. Beer quality is ok
On 1st March 2016
- rating: 8
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