Pennyblacks, Birmingham - pub details
Address: 132-134 Wharfside Street, The Mailbox, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 1XL [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 30523) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Birmingham New Street (0.4 miles), Five Ways (0.5 miles), Birmingham Moor Street (0.6 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Canalside location
Pub suggested by gillhalfpint on 4 Dec 2006
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> Current user rating: 7.3/10 (rated by 16 users)
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user reviews of Pennyblacks, Birmingham
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| I am so pleased to see this pub lose it's CAMRA Good Beer Guide status. It has not been included the 2010 edition. ICTGringo - 8 Sep 2009 18:33 |
| I wasn't expecting a Good Beer Guide entry by the Mailbox alongside the canal inside a wine bar/barn decked out like several lounges, but gave it a go. The ales were well hidden at the back of the bar, and difficult to discern. Without assistance from the clueless barmaid, I peered through the gloom and made out one of the pump clips, What The Fox's Hat, and a very good pint it was too, supped by the canal on a table outside. An interesting find for a quick pint, but I wouldn't be tempted to stay. dableywolf - 17 Jun 2009 23:34 |
| Expensive beer and attented to by bar staff who haven't got a clue (at least they hadn't when I went) The real ale's are situated at the back of the bar so you have a job to see what is available and its respective ABV. Bar person I asked hadn't got a clue what I was on about when I asked about available cask ale's...just mearly pointed at then!! It would help if they had a board up advertising these ale's. (If there was a board I never saw it!) The beer was good though when I eventually got one. I didn't stay for a second as I couldn't be doing with the trauma of asking again. ICTGringo - 2 Jun 2009 19:25 |
| This bar probably needs to find a single identity rather than try and please all comers.No complaints about the range and quality of real ales with What's the Fox's Hat from Church End the pick but I would imaging the beard and sandal CAMRA brigade would find the atmosphere offputting.There is a lot of top totty in this place but most of the pub crawlers were shipping lager by the gallon and the acoustics mean that you have to shout to be heard.Cant believe this is a relaxing place to eat and some of the seating is too much like a lounge rather than a bar.Why do gay men have to make a public display of their affection for each other ?However great place for quality ale in the regenerated Gas Street Basin area. Bucking_Fastard - 7 May 2009 14:44 |
| Nice enough new build pub if you like huge drinking barns, this one is a better class than many of the others though. Copper bar but at table level with all the handpumps etc at the back of the bar. Strange idea that as I hadn't brought my reading specs so I had trouble making out what was on the pumpclips. The answer was Backyard Blonde, Oldershaw Mowbrey's Mash, Cottage Whippet Gold and Wye Valley Butty Bach. Not a bad selection at all. Had a Backyard and an Oldershaw, both were fine if not totally top notch. The back wall is covered with a massive wine rack, so plenty of choice there as well. I'm not too sure about this place really, it's not my sort of place, but the other would love it. ROBCamra - 23 Mar 2009 21:08 |
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