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Beer of the Week (w/e 17th March 2024) with Mobyduck on the Pub Forum

Winckley Street Ale House, Preston

Pub added by Brainy Pool
8b Winckley Street
Preston
PR1 2AA

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Ian Mapp left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

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?

On 9th May 2023 - rating: 6
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ROB Camra left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

Neat little micropub that was totally filled by the PuG crawl. My pint of Mobberley Brewhouse Cheshire Pale was in good nick. I'm not even sure what disingenuous means, but I do get to taste a lot of Twisted Wheel brews in and around Rochdale.

On 20th May 2022 - rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

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.

On 19th May 2022 - rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

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.

On 15th May 2022 - rating: 7
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Steve C left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

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.

On 30th April 2022 - rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

A newish addition to the Preston drinking scene ( opened November 2018 I believe) in a former shop premises, the Winckley Ale House mainly focusses on craft beer options with a nine tap wall at the back of the serving counter, but there are three ale hand pumps on the front of the counter that had Brewsmith Pale, Mobberley Brewhouse Cheshire Pale and Twisted Wheel Brew Co. Speed Wobble available on our visit. I ducked the craft Rivington Brewing Imperial Stout at 10.5% and £9.50 a pint being shown on the electronic display screen for a half of the Speed Wobble at £1.90. One of our party disingenuously referred to the Twisted Wheel ale as chicken soup, but I quite liked it.
Comfortable place to enjoy a beer with the front bench seating section and the boothed side are as described below and there was a couple of additional benches outside to the front of the bar.

On 28th April 2022 - rating: 7
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Graham Coombs left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

As described below, a nice little one-up-from-a-micropub in what passes for a posh area. the Brewsmith Pale was reasonable, if a little lively in the pump. I wouldn't object to dropping by again.

On 28th April 2022 - rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

As mentioned, this is a new conversion on genteel cobbled Winckley Street, just off lovely Winckley Square.
A half of Twisted Wheel's Speed-Wobble is noted as being 'Ok', price not recorded.

On 24th April 2022 - rating: 6
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

A shop conversion but with more room than you may expect as towards the rear there is a section of seating booths.The main seating area at the front comprises two long benches with metal framed tables and stools.The Pubsgalore 20 packed it out.There is also some exposed brickwork and a small log burner.
The large screen was dispaying the 9 craft keg options and three handpumped ales ,namely Twisted Wheel Speed Wobble,Brewsmith Pale and Mobberley Cheshire Pale.(NBSS 3) .Maybe not the most exciting ale selection ,the craft keg options were more eclectic ,some with challenging ABV's.
Run by a young crew,this will appeal more to craft keg fans but is worth popping into when crawling Preston.

On 23rd April 2022 - rating: 7
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Brainy Pool left this review about Winckley Street Ale House

Last time I came here it was a specialist pie and ale house, it’s now rebranded and just an ale house without the pies. It offers a very good value food menu usually, but only drinks at the mo. Four clipped cask pumps - my West Coast pale was fine and service ultra friendly. Also has loads of kegs and a fridge of cans. It’s pleasingly unpretentious and the atmosphere was nice though maybe more bar than pub. Music choice is displayed on a large screen TV, via Spotify I think. The array of historic pump clips shows the pedigree of this place, it’s a ‘should visit’ in Preston.

On 23rd January 2022 - rating: 7
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