July 2023. Digbeth. Birmingham.
Well, I think it’s Digbeth. I assume everything east of that Selfridges store (the one with the pink dots below) is Digbeth. Do feel free to correct me.
Back at New Street/Grand Central from Bournville I finally found a bin for that Birmingham Brewery can, and set off aimlessly for another brewery tap.
As kidz say, I was today years old before I worked out how to exit New Street successfully and make it through the Bullring. Could I do it twice ?
I doubt it.
Birmingham was buzzing, and the tourist office can use that a pint of Doom Bar.
As with bigger cities like Sheffield and Manchester, loads of building going on. I guess the metro extension will connect up with the craft bars in Castle Bromwich at some point.
Life After Football will be able to identify the pub below; it’s probably still used on Blues match days.
Ah ! here’s the Halton Turner Tap, underneath the arches emanating from Moor Street Station.
Now this is going to sound familiar, but Halton Turner has limited opening hours.
And not just that, during Winter and Spring it wasn’t open at all (trust me, I tried) as it was too expensive to open up. And their Facebook is full of notifications of closures for private parties and emergency repairs.
So this is a BIG TICK.
A BIG TICK for BRAPA too, who I missed by an hour (phew).
Look how excited @daddyBRAPA is. Halton Turner is as much a live music venue, so Bernard fits in well with his backward cap which is all the rage in Brum.
Anyway, long debate about places that are rarely open* in the GBG aside, I loved this place, trestle tables and all.
A really lovely lady, some gorgeous hazy pale (I don’t do cask in craft bars now I’m a completist),
old fellas,
and young lasses on laptops, and hipster music from (checks notes) Traffic.
Steve Winwood was a Brummie, you know.
*At risk of being tiresome, I will again say that places can open when they want, it’s Guide inclusion that’s the issue.
retiredmartin 
I’m fairly sure Steve Winwood is still a Brummie.
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Still !!!
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It’s a bit like having a cronic disease, it’s mildly irritating and you’re stuck with it for life.
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That’s not the Digbeth I remember from five years and eight days ago.
( with the rare appearance of ‘Cookie’ )
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I do remember a modern brewery back in 2018 but it wasn’t Halton Turner and I didn’t visit !
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Yes, Ruin, just before finishing in the White Swan.
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Hi Martin – I dropped lucky with my visit to Halton Turner, just nosing around the arches (as you do) and they happened to be open, very friendly place and lots of street art on the doorstep. I think the other microbrewery you spotted previously might have been DigBrew, sadly no longer trading as I always rated their beer highly. Hopefully the Birmingham Metro extension(s) won’t get as bogged down in delays as the Wolverhampton one – we’ve been waiting for our spur to the railway station to be completed for what seems like an eternity now! Cheers, Paul
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Yes, that would have bee Dig Brew.
Halton Turner were very friendly.
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