Taps

Twelve Durham pubs beyond the craft trail — live music, cocktails, a riverside balcony, the best sandwich in the city, and two I would check first.

Five Durham craft beer stops walked in one route and scored honestly — where the best pint in the city is, and where I disagree with CAMRA.

Five County Durham breweries, driven and drunk honestly. Which ones are worth the trip, which ones aren’t for me, and why I’d still go anyway.

Thirty years of drinking the wrong thing, then two Durham breweries sorted it out. Hill Island, Durham Brewery, and finally knowing what I like.

Five venues, five different reasons to pick one over another. If you want the full rundown on each stop, it’s all in the Windsor Taps full line-up post. Here’s the quick-reference version. Quick comparison VENUE LOCATION TYPE PRICE BEST FOR FOOD VERDICT Windsor & Eton Brewery↗ Map Vansittart Estate Brewery taproom ££ Families & groups…

Windsor got more going on for craft beer than you’d expect from a town this size. Five stops, each with its own character. Here’s the lot, in the order you’d naturally hit them coming from the castle. Windsor & Eton Brewery (Unit 4 Taproom) Windsor & Eton Brewery sits on the west side of Alexandra…

Nine Budapest taprooms, one trip. This is the complete reference — every craft beer bar we visited, sorted by tap count so you can pick your ambition level. Full write-ups are linked where they exist; the rest are coming. Venue District Taps Price Focus Tasters Verdict Post Food Mixát Udvar↗ Map VIII — Palace Quarter…

Two stops on a Budapest Friday night — one for the atmosphere, one for the quiet. Both serve good craft beer; one also serves Metallica. HOPS Beer Bar Budapest The dive bar that earned it A Friday night in Budapest, and we stumbled into HOPS Beer Bar Budapest — what you’d call, in American English,…

The first post covered three places. There were others. These are three more from the same trip — one I’d go back to without hesitation, one that’s decent if the timing works, and one that happened on a Monday evening and was better than it had any right to be. Mixát Udvar — First Night,…

Quick advice before you plan your Budapest evenings: the ruin bars are the first thing every guide tells you to see, and they’re not wrong — go once, have a drink, take the photo. The beer in most of them is ordinary lager at tourist prices, sold to people who’ve already decided the building is…