Latest reviews from St Austell

“Called in late afternoon after a visit to Eden Project nearby. Lovely sunny day so sat outside soaking up the remainder of the sun in front of an old St Austell delivery truck. Bar is up a long flight of steel steps running the outside of the building. Nice pub-like feel inside unlike many brewery bars. Good range of handpulls with two of St Austell's first keg beers on tap. Some Bath ales on too. Quite a talkative chap behind the bar talking through the beers. About 5 limited / new releases alongside the classics. I took a flight of three thirds. Food also available but I'd missed it. Nice place worth a visit, and the shop downstairs has plenty of their limited releases.“

minutemat 756 days ago

“Good selection of beers. I would come back if in the area. “

MashGuide26 1775 days ago

“Visited the brewery, shop and bar in July 2018. Tour was slightly boring, as you don't go in to the brewery itself. You see a video of the brewing process and can smell and taste some of the ingredients, but only actually see the kegging operation. The beer tasting afterwards was very good, we tried something like ten beers and I enjoyed most of them. Some of the Belgian styles were really good. Nice modern tap room with good beers and good food. Shop had lots of merch for sale and takeaway beer prices were very reasonable. Definitely worth a visit.“

UKBeerGeek 2085 days ago

“Visited whilst in St. Austell with a couple of hours between trains. A Camra GBG tick. As JDW’s go this one is well into the top half of the table, good service, bright interior, well kept ales, decent setting, nice outside drinking area at the back. Enjoyable visit.“

Grumbo 2849 days ago

“Visited the shop on Tuesday 26/04/16 ... didn’t have time to hit the bar itself. Good range of St Austell beers as you’d expect including seasonals and small batch releases, such as the Tamar sour, the large format Belgian styles, a saison and a rauch beer. 6 bottles of the non big format beers for £12 was a decent enough deal. Friendly service. Well worth the stop just to load up on some interesting St Austell ticks, would liked to have had time for a drink.“

Theydon_Bois 2921 days ago

“In the area just above the main shopping street and next to the main car parks, this is a decent sized Wetherspoon for the town in its own building sporting two outdoor area at the front and the back - with the rear the larger and more attractive option. The bar occupies the central area of the open plan pub with the majority of the seats to the left of the main entrance. It’s comfortable and sports two rows of real ale pumps that carry the the quarterly rotating selection as well as locally sourced ales.“

ManVsBeer 3043 days ago

“Another JDW pub. Good local ales at moderate prices. This one was located in a nice building, few meters above the street. By the time we visited they had one guest cask from USA. Nothing remarkable, but always a good option to have lunch and some beers.“

Lowenbrau 3474 days ago

“We visited the St. Austell Brewery on August 2014. Old brewery, with some modern parts, but where you can still see some old brewing equipment (some in use, some other not), as fermentors, boiling kettles, malt mills. They also host a little exhibition of breweriana and old equipments. Modern kegging plant, recently produced their first lager, so they had to place outside some large lagering tanks. Visit includes a tasting session of several bottles. Nice taproom, very beautiful, with almost the whole range of St. Austell on cask, and a few ones in keg (Korev and some belgian styled one). Food seemed to be nice, although we didn´t try it. Strongly recommended visit.“

Lowenbrau 3474 days ago

“Visited on a Saturday night. A lively pub in the centre of town. Had a decent range of local micros on tap. Beer seemed in decent nick too. Plenty of rooms to hide away from the crowd and chat. Best of the 3 Spoons visited that day“

WingmanWillis 3608 days ago

“The brewery tap of the St Austell Brewery, with a brewery museum attached. Hicks Bar is at the very top of a warehouse building, accessed via an iron staircase outside. It’s light and airy, with light wood tables and comfortable chairs, some covered with barley and hop sacks. Up in the rafters are barrels and woodworking tools. There are about 10 hand pumps and perhaps 12 or so bottles, which can also be purchased in the shop downstairs. The staff were very welcoming and, as you might expect, the beer was nice and fresh. When we were there they’d just introduced a delicious raspberry porter which I’ve yet to see elsewhere. (Visited 27 March 2012).“

Boudicca 4296 days ago

“Intersting visitors centre attached to this cossy bar. Staff are extremely friendly and knowledgeable. Beers on last visit - Proper Job, Trelawny and Tribute.“

hembro 4393 days ago

“The brewery tap for St. Austell, whose beers I usually like. Very fresh Proper Job. There’s a small museum attached to the pub. Friendly place, worth a stop if you like this brewery, or if you’re thirsty after the Eden Project.“

Oakes 4641 days ago

“Nice brewery taproom located at the visitors centre, go up the steep stairway at the outside of the building, and you walk into what looks like a traditional pub. Restaurant was used for jazz concert while I was visiting and there seems to be events like this on an ordinary basis. Meanwhile i got good service at the pub, even got to sample a new product from bottle, cornish bock. Knowledgeable staff. Almost empty pub at my visit, early evening.“

gunnar 4645 days ago

“The pub at the St. Austell Brewery Visitor’s Centre is open past the regular brewery tour opening hours, which makes it convenient to visit any time. They have a proper restaurant and cafe as well as a bar where you can get the freshest possible Tribute, HSD and whatever else happens to be tapped.“

Beershine 4795 days ago