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Black Cloak Brewing, Colwyn Bay
Colwyn Bay
LL29 7RU
Served areas
Black Cloak Brewing
@duckpedal We’re 71 Abergele Road (next door to Phase 3 hairdressers)
10:26 PM Dec 9th 2018 from Twitter for iPhone
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Black Cloak Brewing
The Black Cloak was my final stop in Colwyn Bay, as it does not open until 4pm.
I'm not sure if brewing here is now being stopped, but they were on the last couple of cask/tanks of beer brewed using the current equipment. It sounds like they are either relocating the brewery or updating the equipment.
Beers are listed on a screen. There were 3 real ales on handpull, all from Marble - Pint, Bitter & Extra Special Marble. However, the bar majors on craft beers - Black Cloak Big Corruption & Pina Colada Sour, Black Jack Hazy Little Session Pale Version 1 & New England IPA, DEYA Magazine Cover, Crafty Devil Safe as Chocolate Milk, Thornbridge Market Porter, Wild Horse Buckskin, Vault City Dinosaur Tea Party, Unity Tranquillo & Top Rope Papa Mango.
The owner/brewer was certainly very friendly and professional and despite me arriving shortly after opening, it was quickly much busier than the Bay Hop where I'd just arrived from. In addition, there was also a much more local clientele, most of whom seem to know each other. As such, people were not as liable to engage strangers in conversation here, which gave it a much less friendly feel than the Bay Hop.
Nevertheless, this pub is worth a visit, despite me not completely warming to it.
On 29th September 2021
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2284 recommendations about 2283 pubs]
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Graham Coombs left this review about Black Cloak Brewing
A clean and tidy taproom shop conversion, with the tiny brewery behind. Generally fitted with modern Scandi-style furnishings, with some stools at the back, and there are 3 handpumps, a dozen or so keg taps on the wall and a beer fridge. I visited during a tap takeover, so they had none of their own ales on the handpumps, but overall there was a good variety of light and dark beer styles and those I sampled were very nice indeed. CAMRA discount is 10% on their own beers, 5% on guests. Definitely one for the serious beer drinker.
On 18th March 2020
- rating: 8
[User has posted 3215 recommendations about 3153 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 5-10% - last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Car Park : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 25 March 2019 by Alan Hurdle
- Darts : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 25 March 2019 by Alan Hurdle
- Function Room : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Hot Food : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Jukebox : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Karaoke : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Live Music : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Micropub : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Pinball : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Pool Table : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Quiz Night : No last updated 18 March 2020 by Graham Coombs
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 10 December 2018 by Aqualung .
- Real Cider : No last updated 29 September 2021 by Blue Scrumpy
- WiFi : Yes last updated 25 March 2019 by Alan Hurdle
