Baum

A welcome and well-kept traditional British pub in brick and dark wooden interiors. A L-shape bar serving different seating areas, and with a rather large and lovely beer garden to the rear. Function room upstairs where more than 20 Norwegians had a birthday party on a Friday eve. 10 cask ales and ciders, most of them locally sourced. Craft beers among the taps and bottles. Beer can be bought in thirds with three or five glasses on a tray. It's located in the upper part of town, about five minutes from the Town Hall and close to the parish church. (Visited several times during a few days in Rochdale, including the birthday celebration of Leif on 04.05.2018).

What a gem!
A little bit off pist, but not really hard to find. Google is your friend mate.
No problem to understand why this pub have been CAMRA pub of the year.
Frendly abd relaxed atmosphere. Solid beer selection. Both on tap, cans and bottle/can. Helpful and friendly staff.
By far the best place in Rochdale.
And probably for a long distance!

Visited on 29th May 2016. Lovely old pub tucked away at the top of town. Nice cosy pub with plenty of seats and a Victorian feel to it. Lots of nice traditional features make it a really nice place to relax. A good range of beers on cask and keg from local breweries. Picked up quite a few new beers here including adding beers from Salamander amongst others. Beer quality was good, prices good and come with a CAMRA discount. Service decent too. Best place in Rochdale and it’s evident why it won POTY.

The best place in Rochdale by a country mile for decent beer, lovely location next to the co-op museum and great beer garden for those rare sunny days decor never changes but thats part of the appeal and its in no way tatty, regular special meet the brewer nights and good selection of real ales and bottles,

Excellent pub with good and interresting food menu. Good selection of real ales, craft ales and bottled beers.

CAMRA’s national pub of the year in 2012 is a well deserved title with seven rotating cask ale pumps and a rotating keg option too as well as a real cider. It has a slight Irish bar feel to it with a predominantly wooden decor and furnishing with exposed brick walls, floorboards throughout and a superb ambiance. They serve food to compliment the fine choice in drinks which includes a decent bottled selection too. This place is behind the shopping centre on its north side, but you’ll have to walk around it to get to it as there’s no exit on this side. It’s right next to the St Mary in the Baum Church. This is a popular place for all ages and there’s a conservatory extension at the back to cope with this, and this also leads to the outdoor area.

A great pub with a good range of craft beers in a quiet part of central Rochdale.
The Baum deservedly won the Greater Manchester Regional CAMRA pub of the year award for 2012. I for one was delighted, as it’s a great place. There are eight hand pumps and five keg taps offering an ever changing range of mainly local craft beers as well as around 35 bottles. Samplers are available and the food is to be recommended. The atmosphere is cosy and warm, with dark polished wood, lots of different seating areas and walls covered with old tin plaques and beer mats. There’s also a nice patio and garden at the back. Rochdale isn’t the most picturesque town I know but Toad Lane was saved from the worst of the 1960s wrecking balls and it has been preserved as a lovely little enclave. Next door to the Baum is the original Rochdale Pioneers’ store, the world’s first successful cooperative and now a museum. (Last visited 24 December 2012).