Visited in januar 2012 on our pre-winter-ale-pubcrawl.. Large pub, with a loooog bar. 8 cask pumps with well conditioned beers. Nice music and a lot of wodden panels. This is really a cosy place to come to have a pint and relax...

Large, spacious, wood panelled pub. Very quiet on a tuesday afternoon when we visited. Excellent range of real ale. Pleasant staff and although I didn’t try the food it looked like awesome pub grub, scouse and chip butties.

Originally Kirkland’s Bakery, then reputedly the first wine bar in Liverpool in the 1970s, the Fly in the Loaf is now an Okells pub with eight interesting hand pumps, 5 keg taps and perhaps 10-20 bottles. All the beers we had looked good and were well kept. The conversion from bakery to wine bar to pub has been done sympathetically to the attractive original frontage. There’s a long, high bar with the bottles neatly arranged on dark wooden shelves with mirrors behind. It’s quite spacious and was eerily quiet when we were there on a cold Monday evening in January. Incidentally, this area of town seems still to be “in transition”. For example, just opposite the Fly in the Loaf is what used to be O’Connor’s, a tavern frequented by luminaries such as Alan Ginsberg, before it morphed into the less auspicious Chaucers disco; today it is a fancy dress shop called Lili Bizarre. (Visited 16 January 2012).

Went in here on a slow pub crawl, sat in here a good hour in late afternoon and it was fairly empty. Good selection of ales, not bad pricing, fairly cheap.

lots of beers :-) just had a couple on a pub crawl not that crowded and clean toilets nice staff, but they would not give us a taste

What a surprise! I went there with no particular expectations (I saw a 70 rating here on ratebeer), but this was one of the best places I visited during my stay in Liverpool. Six casks and 3 imported beer on tap. Friendly staff, very good selection with two casks for local brewers (Liverpool Organic Brewery and another one I forgot). Large room, upstairs there was another one I hadn’t visited. Worth a visit. Highly recommended! If you want foreign beers they got a good selection of german kölsch, kristallweizen, dunkelweizen, lager and belgian strong ales

Originally Kirklands bakery, nowadays it is another pub (see also Thomas Rigbys) operated by Okells brewery and carries a good variety of guest beers too. The refit is sympathetic but it’s not the cosiest place and it doesn’t have the grandeur or ambience of Liverpool’s genuine Victorian boozers.

Quite large, but nice and friendly pub not far from the Philharmonic. A good range of Okells beers and several ever changing guest beers. Very good range of bottled beers as well. Friendly and efficient service. Mixed clientele, with some students from the nearby University. Sky sports on the TV. Well worth a visit.

Liverpool has ambitions to become a National centre in England for historic pubs and real ales. After a one and a half day of pub crawl it is easy to see why; great ales and great, different kinds of pubs all over. Fly in the Loaf is an open, large one-room place, with a number of seating areas. Seems to be crowded and busy in the evenings with a good mix of tourists and locals. Long and inviting bar with at least 10 active handpumps displaying ales from Millstone, Okells, Evan Evans, Elgoods among others. Interesting range of bottles. If Argentina is missing among your countries in RB, you get a bottle here (visited 03.05.2009).

The one of my favourite places to have real ales in Liverpool. Eight real ales on tap in an excellent condition. Also a great place to have something to eat and watch football. I´ll be back (24-25.2.09)