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Windsor & Eton Brewery Unit 4 Taproom, Windsor
Windsor
SL4 1SE
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Moby Duck left this review about Windsor & Eton Brewery Unit 4 Taproom
An impressive roomy taproom with it's own in house kitchen. The long bar has eight handpumps all in use and 21 keg taps along the rear wall.The W & E Americano Stout on cask was superb. Well worth the walk to find.
On 28th May 2023
- rating: 8
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john gray left this review about Windsor & Eton Brewery Unit 4 Taproom
Definitely one of the better brewery taps i have been to.Surprisingly busy considering its a little walk out of town Tried a couple of cask and 3 keg beers and liked the lot.Had 4 W + Eton beers on the day and was very impressed with them.They do food and coffee and my all day breakfast muffin was good just when i needed some food to stave off the effects of the beer.
On 17th December 2022
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about Windsor & Eton Brewery Unit 4 Taproom
All change! They’ve moved into the next door building (Unit 4) and re-kitted it rather well – wood planking etc. It’s much larger and more characterful, though the high tables and stools are off-putting. Friendly service from Andy Fordham’s cousin behind the bar. Six of their cask on, I went for the Mild (NBSS 3.5) and Keller (3.5). Cider and oodles of crafty keg also available. Worth the skedaddle through the industrial estate.
July 2020
Tucked away in an industrial estate but really only a few minutes’ walk from the centre, is the taproom for the town’s only brewery. From the outside it looks like a late 90’s extension to a suburban house and indeed it isn’t necessarily obvious you’ve found it! Inside is a fairly plain and functional rectangular space, with some further overspill seating in the brewery itself which is rather chilly and uninviting (and where I ended-up). In COVID times the ale range was a little down on what I think is usually available but even so, five cask alongside some keg lines is not to be sniffed at. No complaints over the quality of my beers (NBSS 3, 3.5) although service was somewhat haphazard. Worth a visit, though doesn’t feel like somewhere to linger; too impersonal. Rated 7
On 20th April 2022
- rating: 8
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Windsor & Eton Brewery Taproom
The Taproom for Windsor & Eton Brewery has now been relocated nextdoor in Unit 4, with the old taproom now being used as a shop for off sales.
The new taproom is much larger and is spread over a couple of storeys, with a mezzanine level having plenty of additional seating to the main bar area.
The bar is to your left as you enter and features around 8 handpulls that yesterday were displaying festive pumpclips with most of the brewery's most popular beers having been renamed for the season. The real titles of the beers on were Knight of the Garter, Guardsman, Father Thames, Mandarin, Windsor Knot & Conqueror. Craft beers on were Windsor & Eton Roast Chestnut Ale, Shout, Capital, Republika, Good Cop, Treason, White Riot, Storm & Eton Mess, with guests being Portobello London Pale & Black Jack Manchester Tart Stout. Ciders were Sandford Orchards Devon Red & Fanny's Bramble.
Plenty of staff are around. In fact, as we left, there were more staff than customers. Seating is at high tables and stools, whilst there is a counter selling food in one corner of the taproom, where the advertised food was not actually available.
The new taproom is certainly a much nicer experience than the smaller old one. But I'm still not overawed with Windsor & Eton's ales and the whole experience now feels much more corporate.
On 21st December 2021
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about Windsor & Eton Brewery Taproom
Nowadays, it feels like a London-based pub crawl is missing something if you haven’t had to traipse around an industrial estate looking for a brewery tap, and it seems that this malaise is creeping out into the home counties too, as within a short time of arriving in Windsor, I was marching around the Vansittart Estate trying to find the town’s eponymous brewery. Thankfully, a small row of pavement-side tables and chairs betrayed its location, saving me the usual tour of incorrect factory units. I was rather pleased to find a very smartly presented and well thought out taproom, with none of the afterthought features these types of ventures tend to afford their onsite customers. Here we find a very clear distinction between brewery and taproom, so there’s no jostling for space amongst sacks of malt of boxes of glassware – instead, we’re presented with a smart space that has the feel of a modern craft beer bar. The room has nice floorboards and a neutral colour scheme, with the servery directly opposite the sliding door entrance. The bar has a white panelled counter and plain bar back adorned with detailed beer boards and the obligatory row of keg taps, which run beneath a window looking through to the brewery (although this is better viewed through doors at either end of the bar). One gripe would be that seating comes almost exclusively in the form of high stools, either around large upturned barrels or else along drinking ledges, some of which looked like they might have been temporary additions/replacements based on the social distancing requirements in place at the time. Over to the right, an entire wall has been covered in shelving units displaying the breweries bottled beer range and various bits of merchandise, although this whole space had been screened off, again presumably as some sort of temporary Covid measure. Décor includes a prominently mounted royal crest and a wall of certificates won by the brewery. The aforementioned pavement seating stands beneath some attractive leafy foliage on the front of the building but consists of flimsy canteen-stle tables and benches. A decent 60’s soundtrack played in the background throughout my stay and there was a steady stream of customers coming and going, without ever getting overly busy.
The beer boards listed eleven Windsor & Eton beers, but with no mention as to whether any were available on cask – there were no handpulls on the bar, so I assumed not. I tried a pint of the White Riot (£4.35) which was definitely a keg beer but had a nice finish and slipped down quickly after a very warm walk along the river to get out here.
I’m starting to lose my enthusiasm for checking out these awkwardly located brewery taps, but every now and again, one like this comes along and makes you realise that they can be worth seeking out. It loses points for the lack of distinction between cask and keg (or perhaps the total lack of cask) and for the uncomfortable seating both inside and out. However, the pros most certainly outweigh these minor complaints, making this an essential addition to any crawl around Windsor.
On 29th August 2021
- rating: 7
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