Eight taps in a converted chapel, Thursday to Sunday, pews for benches, a glass wall onto the tanks
The taproom
The chapel floor with long tables made from the pews, the bar of reclaimed timber with eight numbered taps, a gallery upstairs you can book, a yard with picnic benches and the pizza oven, and the brewhouse behind a glass wall. Open Thursday to Sunday; a different food van every Friday; children until 8pm; dogs always.
A taproom is a pub with the brewery in it, and the difference shows in the glass: the beer on the bar was in a tank thirty metres away last week. The chapel gives it the rest: height, light through the tall windows, long tables that make strangers talk, and a gallery for the people who want the quiet.
Eight taps, numbered on the bar and on the board, with the style and the strength beside every name; halves and thirds of everything, and a flight of four thirds for £9 if you cannot decide. Two or three of the taps are the core range (the pale, the lager, the stout), the rest rotate through whatever came out of the tanks that fortnight, which is why the board on this website exists. A local cider, two wines, a cold-brew coffee and proper soft drinks for drivers and children.
Thursday is the quiet night. Friday has a food van in the yard from five (the rota is on the taproom page), Saturday has the pizza oven from one and a live band about once a month, and Sunday is families, dogs and the papers until eight. Bring your own food on any night without a van; plates are behind the bar. The gallery upstairs seats thirty and can be booked for an evening for £150 against the bar. Children are welcome until 8pm; dogs are welcome everywhere except the brewhouse.
What is included
- Eight taps, the board live on this website
- Halves and thirds; a flight of four for £9
- Food vans on Fridays, pizza on Saturdays
- The gallery for thirty, bookable
- Children until 8pm, dogs always
- Step-free from the yard, accessible toilet
What it costs
A pint from £4.60, a half from £2.40, a third from £1.70, a flight of four thirds £9. Soft drinks, a local cider and two wines for the people who were dragged along. The board has every tap with its price; the trade page has the wholesale list in the open.
Questions about taproom
Can we bring food?
Yes, on any night without a van, and we have plates and cutlery. On Friday and Saturday the van and the oven are there because people asked; you can still bring your own.
Do you take bookings?
Not for the chapel floor; it is first come. The gallery upstairs can be booked for groups of ten to thirty for £150 against the bar.
Saturday at two: the tour, a flight, and a can to take home.
Ninety minutes round the tanks with whoever brewed that week, malt and hops in your hands, a taste from a fermenter, then four thirds on the chapel floor. £25, twelve at most. The same form takes a mixed box, the gallery, or a trade order.