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Cloudwater Brewery Tap Room, Manchester
Manchester
M1 2NP
Served areas
Cloudwater Unit 9
We're now sold out of our guest small pack today from @trilliumbrewing @OtherHalfNYC @monkishbrewing - thank you to everyone who came down!
1:28 PM Mar 3rd 2019 from Twitter Web Client
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Cloudwater Brewery Tap Room
I had tried to visit both Cloudwater and Track (diagonally opposite) last New Year's Eve. However, I was not allowed entry by a doorman at Cloudwater, who said that the Brewery Tap Room was full and also not to bother with Track as that was also full!
However, undeterred, I returned last Saturday afternoon. A brewery taproom with a bouncer on the door seems like it could be a very commercial experience, but if anything, this is less so than Track's Brewery Tap.
The Tap Room can be found on the first floor. The drinking space was busy when we arrived and was smaller than I had anticipated. As with Track, we shared one of the bench tables with a guy and a lady from the Netherlands. He was working for a brewery in Amsterdam and was another who was very interested in his beers.
The single cask ale was a collaboration between Cloudwater & JW Lee's, a 6.8% old ale called Piccadilly Star. I hadn't anticipated I would be drinking a beer from Lee's on this crawl of Manchester's railway arches and trading estates!
Craft beers from Cloudwater were Iridescent, Happy, Three Of A Kind, Fuzzy, Helles, IWD 2023, SoCal, Super Happy, Cascading, Window Seat, Kold IPA, Chubbles 53°N, Crystallography: Columbus & Strata Edition, Chubbles, Chubbles Chubbles & Chubbles 3 Enhanced. Guest beers were Two Chefs Funky Falcon & Pohjala Baltic Porter Day 2023 & Oo X (Cellar Series).
I'm glad that I've finally got here and can understand why I may have been refused entry when it is busy, as this is certainly a much smaller place than I had anticipated. Nevertheless, I am likely to attempt a return visit one day.
On 12th April 2023
- rating: 6
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Ian Mapp left this review about Cloudwater Brewery Tap Room
Opposite the Track Brewing Co. Little to choose between the two and you would visit both, surely.
This is on a mezzanine floor above the main brewery. Tables, a strange rostrum style seating areas with bean bags - under a projector screen showing their wares.
I tried one crafty 2/3rds - Chubbles II: Discovering Pilsengris - and a cask handpull, Taking Over the Brew. Both excellent.
On 28th March 2022
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Cloudwater Brewery Tap Room
Although housed in a typical anonymous modern industrial estate unit, the Cloudwater Tap is relatively close to Piccadilly Station and Ancoats. The bar is upstairs on a mezzanine overlooking the area where beers are being aged in wooden casks of various sizes (with the main brewery being in the adjacent unit). Basic, canteen-style furniture and limited decoration, as you would expect. As a (mostly) craft keg brewery, I found 17 on their own beers (in a huge range of styles) on the various anonymous taps. However, there are also a couple of handpumps, and I went for the cask version of their 7th Birthday Hopfenweisse (£4.50) which proved an excellent choice.
On 16th February 2022
- rating: 8
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Ardwick, 0.73 miles, 14 min walk (show)
Manchester Oxford Road, 1.05 miles, 20 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 03 October 2018 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 03 October 2018 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 03 October 2018 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : No last updated 12 January 2022 by Rob Hunter
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 03 October 2018 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 12 January 2022 by Rob Hunter
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 12 January 2022 by Rob Hunter
- Micropub : No last updated 03 October 2018 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 12 January 2022 by Rob Hunter
- Pool Table : No last updated 12 January 2022 by Rob Hunter
- Real Ale : Yes - One cask ale put on each Friday, available until it runs out - last updated 18 November 2019 by Rob Hunter
- Real Cider : No last updated 03 October 2018 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Lift available to first floor - last updated 12 January 2022 by Rob Hunter
