Lime Kiln, Liverpoolback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
First stop on a Thursday morning/lunchtime visit to Liverpool pubs was the Lime Kiln. It wasn't as busy as usual. Maybe the area outside cordoned off by the police (presumably after the previous night's revelries) had something to do with that. But the ale selection is still one of the best for Liverpool's Wetherspoon branches. On this occasion, the regular Ruddles Best was supplemented by Peerless Pool Street Porter, Coach House Postlethwaites & Blonde Ale, Bell's Light Hearted Ale, Cotleigh Red Nose Reinbeer, Vale Good King, Parker Barbarian Bitter & Saxon Red Ale, Wolf Santa Paws & Elgood's A Christmoose Carol. Ciders were Old Rosie & Black Dragon. A decent start to the morning.
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The Lime Kiln was much busier than I'd seen it before when we visited yesterday lunchtime. There wasn't a free table. The beer selection was fairly good - Greene KIng Abbot, Ruddles Best, Peerless Red Rocks & Langton Spin, Hawkshead Brodie's Prime, Robinson's Unicorn, Brains SA, Purple Moose Elderflower, Cairngorm Black Gold & Weetwood Maori Sidestep. But unusually there were no real ciders. Cider appears to be pretty hard to find in branches of Wetherspoon's in Liverpool these days, which is disappointing. Nevertheless, the ale selection offered us enough choice. Still the best 'spoons in Liverpool in my opinion.
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Quite a big place this with a ground floor and an extra floor of seating upstairs with a bar on each floor (the upstairs bar doesn't do ale however). They had a decent few local brewery beers when I was in including beers from Peerless and Big Bog, as well as Abbot and Ruddles Best. I went for a pint of 'Dusk' by Cross Bay brewery, which was a decent pint and only cost 1.85. Definitely one of the better spoons in Liverpool (the only one that seems to may be compete with it is the one in Lime Street station- 'The North Western'). The only thing I would add is be wary at night time considering it's part of a rowdy area in Liverpool and at these prices it may attract some characters. Still solid though
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The Lime Kiln was fairly quiet on my Bank Holiday Monday lunchtime visit. But I still rate this as the best Wetherspoons in Liverpool city centre. It feels a little on a limb during the daytime. But when this area is liveliest at night, its location becomes apparent. Ales on this visit were Hawkshead Red, Loddon Hullabalo, Black Sheep Riggwelter, Three B's Shuttle Ale, Coach House Cheshire Gold, Brecon Six Beacons, Salopian Darwin's Origin, Exmoor Gold, Peerless Triple Blond, Greene King Abbot & Ruddles Best. Ciders were Westons Old Rosie & Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon. For a less crowded experience than the North Western, the Richard John Blackler, the Welkin and the Fall Well, this is the best Wetherspoons pub for a quiet daytime drink in the centre of Liverpool.
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This was pub number 5 on our itinerary yesterday. It's a Lloyds No. 1 Pub that probably gets very busy on weekend evenings. But I've only ever been in during the daytime. Wetherspoons currently have a beer festival on. So the choice was good - Ruddles Best, Harviestoun Old Manor, Arundel Smokehouse Porter, Greene King New Horizons IPA, Oakleaf 10 Little Acorns, Green Jack Rising Sun, Cross Bay Nightfall, Batemans QED, Wadworth Minagof, Belhaven Old Gold, Wychwood King Goblin & Tring Moloko. Ciders were Orchard Pig Hogfather, Tempted Special Reserve, Westons Old Rosie & Thistly Cross Whisky Cask. Seating is on two levels. This was the first time I've sat upstairs. It's quite a large area with it's own separate bar. Although none of the ales are dispensed from there. One of 5 Wetherspoons in Liverpool City Centre these days.
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In here early last Saturday so a bit quiet.
Good description given below by Blue Scrumpy.
10 hand pulls and I can’t believe it’s so cheap!!
Oakhams JHB £1.35 a pint
Thwaites Lancaster Bomber £1.55 a pint.
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Visited on Saturday evening at 11pm after gig at the Kazimier and the area around Concert Square was joyously busy and well behaved. The Lime Kiln wasn't packed and there were a number of oldies like me enjoying a decent real ale at prices so cheap that CAMRA vouchers couldn't be used !
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Seemingly in the middle of club & theme pub land, a hidden gem during a lunchtime. Barman asked if we were Camra members -which we were- and gave us a discount. Two decent pints were consumed. Of an evening I can't comment, but I would guess with the pubs/clubs next door it might be totally different? Worth a visit of a lunchtime though!
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I ended my 5 week boycott of Wetherspoons establishments (after being refused entry to a Solihull branch for wearing trainers!) by visiting this place yesterday. It's a Lloyds No.1 bar with a fairly modern interior of wood and metal spread over 2 floors. The ground floor seems to double as a nightclub-type place in the evening. 3 real ales were on - Peerless Hop Nob & Full Whack and Leeds Doubting Tom. Westons Cider Twist Raspberry was the cider offering. Located in the Concert Square area, this pub was much better than I expected.
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Have been in here a few times to try their real ale - the last time being a couple of months ago when they had a World Beer Festival, except they didn't have any ale on sale!
Had a pint of Strongbow instead which cost something ridiculous like �2.90.
I've walked past here in the evening and it always seems to be crowded and has the obligatory bouncers (expecting trouble!).
Plus, it's situated on a corner of Concert Square which is one of the main trouble spots in Liverpool city centre, infested by yobs ans scallys who can't handle their watered down lager and blue WKD's.
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Not a single real ale on my visit - very poor. Apart from that food service was quick. Very modern although personally not really my kind of taste. A bit sterile.
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Really Nice Trendy Lloyds No1 even though it took us ages to find!
Had a sunday roast here which was gr8 value. 9/10
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Cool and trendy. Lots of beautiful people. Might put you off if you think they are all posers (which is not entirely untrue). But I have enjoyed drinking in this place. Well thought out
Revel - 23 May 2006 17:37 |
i'm from Australia and i visited this place and it was hell funky
Sarah - 9 Aug 2004 07:00 |
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