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Craft beer in Birmingham

Breweries with taproom

  • Jewellery Quarter and area East thereof

    • Burning Soul Brewing In the Jewellery Quarter. Taproom only open on Fridays and Saturdays though, and only in the afternoon and early evening.

    • Rock & Roll BrewHouse In the Jewellery Quarter. Very limied opening ours on Friday and Saturday.

  • Snowhill

    • Two Towers Brewery in the Gunmakers Arms pub.

    • Indian Brewery Snowhill

  • Stirchley

    • Attic Brew Co. In Stirchley, far south from the city centre.

    • Birmingham Brewing Company In Stirchley, with taproom. Open Thursday - Sunday

    • GlassHouse Beer Co. In Stirchley. Very limited opening hours on Friday and Saturday.

  • Elsewhere

    • Froth Blowers Brewing Company Ltd In Erdington, far out of the city. But no taproom.

    • Leviathan Brewing. Taproom only open Thursday-Sunday. Far Northeast in the city, in Sutton Coldfield.

Good pubs

  • Centre north of New Street.

    • Bacchus Bar

    • The Colmore. Close to my 2025 hotel.

    • The Head of Steam Very close to my hotel of 2025.

    • Purecraft Bar & Kitchen In the financial district on Waterloo Street, so close to my hotel of 2025.

    • The Old Joint Stock Pub & Theatre Very close to my 2025 hotel. A place you visit for the interior rather than for the beer.

    • The Sun on the Hill

    • Tilt Pictures suggest they have a lot of different beers on tap.

    • The Wellington. Close to my 2025 hotel.

  • City centre south of New Street

    • BrewDog Birmingham

    • Cherry Red's Café Bar.

    • The Craven Arms

    • Kilder. At Moor Street train station.

    • The Victoria

  • In Digbeth

    • The Anchor Digibeth

    • AutoBrew In Digbeth at the Custard Factory. Strange self-service concept.

    • Dead Wax Digbeth

    • Nortons

    • The Spotted Dog. In Digbeth.

    • The White Swan In Digbeth

  • Towards the Jewellery Quarter

    • The Bull. East from the Jewellery Quarter, rather in Snow Hill.

    • The Jewellers Arms

    • The Red Lion North-west from the city centre.

    • The Rose Villa Tavern. In the jewellery quarter

    • 1000 Trades Jewellery Quarter

    • The Wolf

  • In Harborne

    • Hop Garden. In Harborne.

    • The Plough Harborne. A fair distance southwest from the centre.

  • In Stirchley

    • The British Oak In Stirchley

    • Cork and Cage. In Stirchley.

  • Aston (North of the centre)

    • The Bartons Arms

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