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The Crescent (Free House)

We believe this pub is CLOSED

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Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Epicurus Craft Beer (formerly Hornbeam) - Cheers Big EarsAcceptable1
Distant Hills (was Howard Town) - Weiss PeakAcceptable1
Goose Eye - Ashes AlePoor1
Hopstar - Pete's Perfect PintPoor1
Picture 1. The Crescent, Salford, Greater Manchester

Visits Details

18 Jul 2009 (Ian)
First pub on the Ratebeer Saturday crawl of Manchester/Salford. To be honest I was still feeling rough from the previous night drinking Thornbridge Epic Halcyon. However, I thought the beers here were not great, but that was to do with the brewing rather than the service.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Epicurus Craft Beer (formerly Hornbeam) - Cheers Big Ears4.00AcceptableHazy gold, thin white head. Pretty decent golden bitter, bit of rubber, some lemon.
Distant Hills (was Howard Town) - Weiss Peak4.80AcceptableHazy gold, thin beige head. Some banana on that. Some esters. Quite soft in mouth, but pretty decent. OK. Quite drinkable.
Hopstar - Pete's Perfect Pint4.10PoorClear gold, green apple. Grainy, not great. Bit of rubber.
Goose Eye - Ashes Ale4.40PoorClear gold, thin beige head. God that smells terrible, blue cheese, not good in mouth, rubber and blue cheese

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About The Crescent

Summary of Beer Scores

 Total
Exceptional-
Excellent6
Good9
Acceptable9
Poor2

The pub is found in Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4PF.

Freehouse in Salford. Central bar with a good number of handpulls serves several rooms. Very good value food and jukebox.

We have visited this pub 11 times, seen 28 different beers and tried 25 of them.

Map location

Postcode: M5 4PF