15 best pubs in Sefton according to CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2023
These popular pubs in Birkdale, Crosby, Formby, Southport and beyond feature in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2023.
The annual guide, released by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and on sale this month, offers an insight into pubs, bars and clubs across the UK.
It highlights venues selected by its members ‘as places to savour good beers from small breweries as well as cask-conditioned lagers and world beers and some pubs are highlighted for serving real ciders too’.
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Here are 15 pubs and bars that feature in the 50th edition of the trusted guide and what CAMRA said about each of them in their Good Beer Guide 2023.
5. Beer Station, Victoria Buildings, Freshfield
CAMRA said: “Freshfield’s first micropub has a focus on all things local. Its beers are chosen to showcase the area’s brewers, including the on-site brewery, supplemented by one ‘foreign’ ale a month from outside the region. The few spirits offered also have their provenance checked. A fridge of bottled beers adds variety.”
6. The Freshfield, Massams Lane, Freshfield
CAMRA said: “A community pub at its heart with three distinct areas – a bar with numerous handpumps, a dining room serving quality food, and ‘the flags’, where well-behaved dogs are welcome. Real cider is available on occasion during festivals. This is a place to meet, talk and spend time with friends old and new.”
7. Grasshopper, Sandon Road, Hillside
CAMRA said: “Micropub in a row of shops close to Hillside train station. It opened in 2016 in what was a Martins Bank branch until 1978; the Martins logo was a grasshopper. There is outdoor seating at the front and a secluded beer garden to the rear. Eight changing real ales and six real ciders are served. Local CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2022.”
8. Pines, Hillside Road, Hillside
CAMRA said: An attractively decorated bar in what was once a hairdresser’s in an area that previously had no pubs or bars but now has two award-winning outlets. Two hand pumps offer a varied choice of beers, served and is mostly frequented by a mature, discerning clientele of regulars. A former local CAMRA Pub of the Year.” (Image: The Pines/Facebook)