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1887 The Brew Room, Blackpool
Blackpool
FY1 3NX
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Quinno _ left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
A revisit as I was showing my sister and her bf the highlights of Blackpool. Discovered a stash of boardgames so we decided to session it in here. GBG-worthy pints of their Tangerine, Stout and Blonde, though the Wonky Donkey was well under-par. I like it here, the service is always good, as is the atmosphere.
May 2022
Smallish bar at the base of the Stanley Hotel. A live music venue with a CAMRA slant – check-out the framed aged What's Brewing covers! Decor pleasingly alehouse in style - tatty dark varnish wood, brick, sodium style lighting. A good soundtrack was being played at a sensible volume. Ten pumps with nine cask on, five from their pet brewery (West Coast Rock) plus four others. My Tangerine Dream was pretty tidy (NBSS 3.5). Also some keg stuff on the back wall. A nice bustling atmosphere and I enjoyed my 30 minutes in here. Rated 8
On 13th May 2023
- rating: 8
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Old Boots left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
Housed in the Stanley Arms it looks like any standard down market pub in Blackpool but it has an on-site brewery, serves a few guests and is GBG2023 listed. Apart from the rather nice counter it’s a fairly typical strip out/ makeover although some other original features remain but you have to look hard. Ten pulls one with Doom (thankfully off), one with Lilly’s cider, guests from Saltaire, Cross Bay and Bowland, the other five have a range from the on site West Coast Rock Brewery (not keen), a quad T-Bar and some solos are complimented by 10 craft keg taps on the back wall including tank beer I guess from themselves. It’s one space that’s been hacked about with a raised area at one side of the front door. There’s a machine and table football at the back and naturally continuous music.It runs a regulars loyalty scheme called beer buddies with 10 or 20% discounts, more on Tuesdays for their own beer.
On 25th February 2023
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
A sign above this prominent street corner bar indicates that this was once the Stanley Arms Hotel. More recently, it was called the Blue Room. Now it is the 1887 The Brew Room and is home to the West Coast Rock Brewery.
The bar staff in here were probably the friendliest we came across in Blackpool. Maybe some of the other bars have to put up with a constant stream of tourists and holidaymakers. This one is a little off the beaten track and therefore will attract more locals.
West Coast Rock beers on handpull were Oyston Stout, Tangerine Dream & Wonky Donkey. Guests were York Guzzler, Oakham Inferno, Goff's White Knight & Fyne Ales Avalanche. A boxed cider (Rosie's Pig) could be found at the end of the bar nearest the entrance, whilst there are also a number of taps for craft beers on the back wall of the bar. Offerings were Wild Beer Millionaire, Salt Huckaback, Lervig House Party & Pilot Mocchachino Stout.
We enquired about a CAMRA discount and the barman went one step further and gave us some kind of employee discount! In all honesty, I wouldn't have been happy paying any more than the £1 my half of Oyston Stout cost. Perhaps the sour taste was the blueberries (it was supposed to contain) coming through, but I don't think so. I suspect the recent warm weather we'd had was the reason for the poor condition. My fellow drinkers ordered a different cask ale, but agreed that the quality simply wasn't there.
Otherwise, I quite liked the atmosphere in here. It felt much more like a local alehouse than most of Blackpool's pubs. If they could get the real ales right, it could be one of Blackpool's best pubs.
On 24th August 2022
- rating: 6
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Rob Hunter left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
Visited on Sunday. Still has 10 hand pulls, 9 of which were on (5 of their own plus 4 guests). The Wonky Donkey IPA was very nice and no complaints about the price at £3.25 for the pint. Various keg taps too.
Food is still served - pies were advertised for £2.95 plus 50p extra for gravy, in addition to pizzas, smoked footlong sausages, and nachos.
Fairly quiet at the time of my visit on Sunday late afternoon, though there were a few other customers dotted about. Music was playing. TV screens are present but were switched off at the time of my visit.
Plenty to go at on the pumps if you like cask ale and it's one I will seek out again.
On 12th October 2021
- rating: 8
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Rob Hunter left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
No raucous groups at the bar this lunch time. 10 hand pulls for cask ale, a split of five of their own beers and five guests (though one of the guests was off). 10 craft keg type taps on the back wall in addition. Their Stout was £1.65 for a half, as were most of their own cask ales. Some of the guests were more expensive, but not by much.
Meals are served, consisting mainly of pizza, large smoked hot dogs, that kind of thing. It's family friendly as you would expect for the food offered. The young lady behind the bar appeared to be running the whole place, running the bar and kitchen and taking food orders out. This did mean there was a slight delay in getting served but she was very apologetic and it was certainly no big deal.
This is a pleasant pub with some character. Possibly some memorabilia may have come from the nearby Pump & Truncheon, as a "Police Enquiries" sign looked rather familiar. I noticed two TV screens, one was showing a TripAdvisor review page of the venue and the other was acting as a virtual fish tank.
Old copies of CAMRA's "What's Brewing" from 1989 were in frames. There was table football to the back of the pub. Dog friendly and free Wi-Fi.
I would love to spend longer here some time and drink my way through the beers. I felt the atmosphere was more relaxed than the nearby No. 13 Bonny Street that I visited beforehand. Music was playing and was pleasant and at a sensible volume.
One to return to!
On 22nd October 2019
- rating: 8
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Will Larter left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
Although the aims here, including the historical link to the founding of Blackpool FC and using only beers brewed on the premises or from regional brewers rather than international brands, are laudable, the execution, as in so many of Blackpool's pubs, is flawed. Partly this is because of the scale of the place - the original Stanley Arms has been extended into the next two houses, seemingly, and the whole space opened out with the exception of a few remnants of walls and the pillars required to keep the whole building from falling down. When we arrived, a large and raucous party of large and raucous men was occupying the space next to the bar, making it difficult to choose a beer and get served. There are 10 hand pumps, of which nine were in action at the time we arrived, soon to become eight as one of the beers we ordered ran out. There are also some keg taps on the bar back, one of which is for their own lager, served from a tank, plus several German beers in different styles. Everything was reasonably priced but the service was sloppy, with lively real ales being served through tight sparklers resulting in huge foaming heads and overflowing drip trays. The staff were doing their best, but with the pub being so busy they were constantly managing a crisis and this contributed to the sloppiness. On the beer front, there was a sameness about the real ales, all of which were pale and hoppy, with the exception of their own Oystons StOUT, a blueberry flavoured stout whose name riffs on the ongoing campaign by Seasiders supporters to have their owners, the Oystons, kicked out of the club. I had a half in solidarity.
On 24th September 2018
- rating: 5
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Colin Walker left this review about 1887 The Brew Room
The former Stanley Arms Hotel & latterly former Blue Room is now called 1887 Brew Room. The Brew Room is where Blackpool Football Club was originally formed (then called The Stanley Arms Pub). The pub only serves beers and ales that are either brewed on site or by regional brewers – no ales from major international brands are available. It also offers a specialist cocktails, ciders and spirits alongside a separate chocolate bar serving milkshakes and coffees, and a smokehouse offering food. The former Blackpool Mayor Robert Wynne has opened the pub and micro-brewery in one of the town’s most historic buildings. The place has its own micro-brewery called “West Coast Rock Brewery".
On 21st July 2018
- rating: 10
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Peter Rydings left this review about Blue Room
Its a lot cleaner than it was but the rock music is far too loud on a Wednesday night with just 3 in
On 15th March 2014
- rating: 6
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