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Pub of the Week: Left Handed Giant tap room
A game of basketball was in full swing on a recent Saturday afternoon outside the Left Handed Giant tap room, the hoop attached to a wooden crate on a forklift able to be raised or lowered depending on the height of the players.
If basketball isn’t your thing, there is a table tennis table here next to the tap room surrounded by bottles of beer, cans of beer and barrels soon to be filled with beer.
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Left Handed Giant, owned by the team behind Small Bar on King Street, make small batch brews here using their own kit while saving the pennies to buy larger equipment sometime in the future. They are currently a gypsy brewery, brewing at Cheddar, Cotswold and Gloucester breweries.
Don’t let the fact that Left Handed Giant don’t make most of their beer here put you off, because their tap room still has up to nine of their beers on tap and a few more in the fridge.
This is only Bristol’s second permanent tap room following the success of Moor Beer less than a mile away on the other side in St Phillip’s. Watch out for the possibility of more opening soon.
Currently only open on Friday and Saturday, for the uninitiated this newbie is tricky to find. But head to the very start of the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, go down the road to the right and keep going and you’ll soon find it.
A pause from the game of basketball outside saw time to sample thirds of the Sour and Mannekin IPAs, with a stubbie of the USPA purchased to take home for good measure.
Barman Eddy was being kept busy raising and lowering the basketball hoop, pouring the beer and making £3.50 cheese toasties with the option of added salami for hungry punters.
An impressive looking two-litre growler was bought in by one customer emblazoned with the logo of Victory Brewing Company from Pennsylvania – and unlike the Moor Beer version with its own handle.
This tap room features a lot of wood and chipboard, with the bar at the far end and a good view into the stock held by the Big Beer distribution business next door in the room where the table tennis is.
If beer isn’t your thing, there is coffee from Clifton Coffee and a few bottles of wine, with plans for street food to be served in the outside courtyard.
If beer is your thing, it’s time to rejoice for yet another place in Bristol to quench your thirst with some quite exceptional brews.
Left Handed Giant tap room, Unit 8 and 9, Wadehurst Industrial Park, St Philip’s Road, Bristol, BS2 0JE
www.lefthandedgiant.com/tap-room
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