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We usually fetch up in beer garden for our afternoon visit and if you look around, all human life is there..! There's always a diverse collection of characters and we often get to chat to a nearby selection. Always entertaining and humorous which makes for a very pleasant visit, once combined with one, or more, of their well-kept ales. On previous visits, we've taken advantage of the juke-box which carries a great selection of music. Quiet here this time round, so didn't stay as long. Someone suggested a quick one in the adjacent Pilgrim, a new one for us...
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Has always been a decent place to go, even better if you can get into the `War Room`. The Wobbly Bob is decent in here, and in all the years I have been going in there ive never seen no trouble.
PS - The gents are to be avoided at ALL COSTS.
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Good selection of bottled beers & alcopops for the non real ale drinkers & enough handpulls for those who prefer beer. Nice mix of students & older people gives this place a cosmopolitan feel. As mentioned in previous posts, the gents is like something from a third world ghetto.
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Yes, it's a smelly pub but good range of guest ales - and the Beatles used to hang out here!
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Always have a great time in the cracke, beer ace, friendly bar staff and locals, the bogs hum a bit, but after a few real ales, who gives a toss. Enjoy the atmosphere.
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I finished my final exams and ended up in here for 12 hours. I drank countless pints of wobbly bob and attempted to ride home on a bicycle afterwards.
From what I can remember it was great and Mott the hoople was on the juke box a lot.
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My husband and I regularly visit Liverpool and never miss a visit to the Cracke. The guest ale selection can't be beaten, and the staff are friendly and amiable.
Amity - 10 Nov 2007 18:07 |
Last pub we visited on a crawl. Top beers on offer, smelly loos, friendly folks...worth a visit.
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People said that once the smoking ban came in that pubs would stink of B.O. and farts etc. I haven't found it too bad so far until I came in here. The Gent's toilet was always rancid but now you can smell it at the bar. Sort it out, it's a fucking disgrace.
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Quirky, multi-roomed gem still trading off its Bohemian heritage. Good ales. Not to be missed.
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Always worth a visit. It can be a bit self-consciously 'bohemian' (whatever that means) sometimes but the beer's rarely less than superb, the jukebox is splendid and, by and large, the Kopite scum keep themselves pretty anonymous.
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The beer quality is good and the pub has character but, sometimes the atmosphere in the crack is not always that friendly.
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Sat outside in the rear garden which is a great place in the Summer. Took our dog with us which we were told we could bring into the garden as they were not serving food that day but otherwise they would not let the dog in on hygeine grounds. Well, for those that know Ye Olde Cracke it's the first time that I have ever known concern for hygeine to be an issue! Nevertheless remains a good pub with usually great beer (Wobbly Bob was off this weekend). We still love you.
anonymous - 20 Jul 2006 19:41 |
This is the pub that the swan inn wishes it was. Top beer, great bar staff and my best mate the women with the dogs!!
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A combination of good beer and tons of character.
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I like this pub very much, Go and see my mate Jimmy C and ray Jones. Ive had so much good fun with Jimmy and what a pub in the summer sitin in the back of the beer garden, If any one reads this and goes in the Crack tell Jimmy C Ian said the queen is to green he will know what am saying, GREAT PUB GOOD BEER REALLY NICE PLACE
ian_f - 13 Dec 2005 17:18 |
You can now sit outside the toilet
window, as it has been bricked up!
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Great beer.Good food,and some very
interesting characters.
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Drinking in a time warp apart from the changing beer list. If youlike old fashioned, slightly scruffy boozers then this is the one for you but flat cap and whippets not compulsory.
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top pub...Excellent beer -usually from the lesser known independent brewers from the northwest area...top Jukey...If you hear Villiers Terrace by the Bunnymen-its only me trying to ingratiate myself with the locals...it usually fails!...My favourite Liverpool pub!!
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Used to drink there all the time almost a decade ago. Great place. Had a few giggs there too. Hope to be back one day.
Microgrin singer - 11 Jul 2004 05:31 |
Used to be my favourite pub in Liverpool, I virtually lived there. Had it's ups and downs over the past few years. There seems to be a high turnover of managers which must say something about the owners. The beer quality can vary depending on who happens to be manager. Last time I was in (2003) the beer was on top form.
Close to the Art College, John Lennon used to blah blah blah. Still populated by peolpe who were at the Art College in the 60s as well as an assortment of locals and oddballs. Too scarey for the LIPA students so that's a good reason to go.
You can sit in the War Office snug chatting to friends and be interrupted and moved up to accommodate an old lady and her dogs who always sit there (the dogs). The dogs make more sense than the lady.
Legendary beer garden. Don't sit outside the Gents window, it stinks and will turn your beer flat.
palmwinedrinkard - 25 May 2004 14:31 |
Nice small pub, selection of ales.
Good food, if a bit on the slow side.
Used to have a dart board, don't know if it's returned yet though.
John - 2 Dec 2003 12:29 |
Small Old Worlde Pub [possibly the oldest pub in Liverpool]. Has a lot of guest beers plus the old faithfulls of Faxe and Red Eric - Well worth a visit
Liznrich - 23 Sep 2003 15:28 |
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