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Waterloo Tap (Bloomsbury Leisure Group)

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Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Five Points - Five Points PaleExceptional1
Mahr's Bräu - WeisseExcellent1
Arbor Ales - Shangri-laExcellent1
Kirkstall - Black Band PorterExcellent1
Hellhound - Black ShuckExcellent1
Siren Craft - Broken Dream Breakfast StoutGood1
Licher - Klosterbrauerei Ettal Benediktiner WeissebierAcceptable1
Redemption - TrinityNot Tried0
Kirkstall - Dissolution IPANot Tried0
Redemption - Fellowship PorterNot Tried0
Five Points - Railway PorterNot Tried0
Burning Sky - Plateau (was 3.5%)Not Tried0
Gipsy Hill - SouthpawNot Tried0
Picture 1. Waterloo Tap, Waterloo, Central London
Stephen Harris

Visits Details

19 Apr 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening, First visit here and found it very busy. Can anyone explain to me why Siren Craft's Broken Dream here is £4.50pp cask and £5.80pp fizz, staff behind the bar could not??
BeerABVScoreNotes
Arbor Ales - Shangri-la4.20Excellent
Siren Craft - Broken Dream Breakfast Stout6.50Good
Redemption - Trinity3.00Not Tried
Kirkstall - Black Band Porter5.50Not Tried
Kirkstall - Dissolution IPA5.00Not Tried
Five Points - Five Points Pale4.40Not Tried
05 Apr 2016 (Stephen Harris)
Busy in here after work – I suppose it always will be. I decided to give free rein to my inner-German tonight. Unfortunately I have not kept details of other beers that were available.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Hellhound - Black Shuck3.90ExcellentAn intensely dry, roasty, black Porter.
Mahr's Bräu - Weisse5.20ExcellentOn keg dispense. Cloudy pale-gold in colour. Has all the German Wheat Beer qualities in spades. Bags of spicy yeast, bananary ester, slightly lemony. Yum Yum.
Licher - Klosterbrauerei Ettal Benediktiner Weissebier5.40AcceptableOn keg dispense. No longer independent, Ettal’s beers are brewed at Bitburger-owned Licher. A hazy-amber colour. Tastes like a German wheat-beer, but not remarkably so. A middle-of-the-road, mainstream version I thought.
21 Mar 2016 (Stephen Harris)
A quick pint after work. The pub is barely less crowded than it was on opening night. Furniture has been rearranged and looks better with tables perpendicular to, rather than parallel to, the bar. I no longer have the details of other beers available on this day.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Five Points - Five Points Pale4.40ExceptionalA great Pale Ale on stunningly good form here.
18 Mar 2016 (Stephen Harris)
This pub has been trailed for many months and finally opened at 5pm this-afternoon. I was here by 6, by which time it was already jam-packed. Destined, I feel, to be a very busy pub.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Kirkstall - Black Band Porter5.50ExcellentA brilliant, strong, flavoursome Porter that also has a classy hop presence.
Redemption - Trinity3.00Not Tried
Redemption - Fellowship Porter5.10Not Tried
Kirkstall - Dissolution IPA5.00Not Tried
Five Points - Railway Porter4.80Not Tried
Burning Sky - Plateau (was 3.5%)3.40Not Tried
Gipsy Hill - Southpaw4.20Not Tried

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About the Waterloo Tap

The pub sign. Waterloo Tap, Waterloo, Central London

Summary of Beer Scores

 Total
Exceptional4
Excellent53
Good18
Acceptable4
Poor1

Website.

The pub is found in Waterloo, Central London, SE1 7ES.

A quite small modern bar in Sutton Walk in railway arch 147 on the line to Charing Cross, near Waterloo railway station, which opened on 18th March 2016. There is an extensive selection of 6 cask and 20 keg beers (although there are 22 keg taps) all dispensed from taps mounted on the copper bar back. All cask and keg beers are listed with name, abv and price on a blackboard above the bar back. The cellar and storage is in a structure in an adjoining arch. Handy for BFI IMAX and the Royal Festival Hall. Card payment only. CAMRA discount offered on cask ales.

We have visited this pub 44 times, seen 147 different beers and tried 75 of them.

Map location

Postcode: SE1 7ES