Four hand-pulled real ales. Usually local and ever-changing!  Often from Brightside, Cloudwater, Marble and other breweries from Manchester’s flourishing beer scene. You can find out what’s on tap through our posts on Facebook or BlueSky, by downloading the Real Ale Finder app where you can follow us for live updates, or you can bookmark our live beer board.

Eight craft kegs on tap. We always have a trio of IPAs from the likes of Cloudwater, Northern Monk, Pomona Island and Track. Northern Monk’s Great Northern is our house lager and we serve Hogan’s French Revelation real cider on draught.  Sours, imperial stouts or Continental and American imports usually round out the bill.

Bottled & canned beers from around the world & from around the corner. We work direct with as many local producers as possible but we also offer many fine Continental and American beers too like Augustiner, Schneider Weisse, Sierra Nevada and various Trappist ales. These are all refrigerated and ready for you to take home, or crack open a cool one in our drinking parlour. At last count we have over 150 beers and ciders in our fridges. We welcome special orders plus sell gift vouchers and gift boxes.

Cider, perry & fruit ciders.  We have Hogan’s Ciders on draught and bottles from the likes of Dunham Press, High Peak and SiDa. All as traditional and natural as possible.

Wine & fizz. A small but choice selection, by the glass or by the bottle.

Whiskies. Only from true independents like Arran, Kilchoman or Lindores and mainly from distilleries we have visited ourselves.

Small-batch gin, rum and vodka with Fever-Tree tonic as standard. We are not a cocktail or shots bar.

Gluten-free and no- to low-alcohol beers. 

Soft drinks.

Nibbles. Traditional bar snacks including Fiddler’s crisps from Lancashire, Mr Filberts’ luxury mixed nuts, bombay mix, chocolates and sweets.

Free Wi-Fi.

Our ‘meet the brewer/distiller’ nights, brewery takeovers and other events are announced on Facebook and BlueSky.

Mike’s Monday Night Music Quiz. Tunes, lyrics and trivia. Between 7-9pm every Monday (including bank holidays), aside from the festive season.

Rob’s Pen & Paper Quiz.  Risk public humiliation for the chance to win risible prizes. Between 8-10pm every Tuesday, aside from the festive season.

Every First Wednesday: Urmston Brew Club. Back with a bang in October 2024!

Wednesday Socials:  Gather for games and socialising, including backgammon every 3rd Wednesday.

Every Fifth Wednesday:  Mike’s Specialist Music Quiz, focused on a single artist or band.

DJ nights and live music. Usually for bank holidays, Halloween and New Year’s Eve.

Meet the brewer events/tap takeovers most recently featuring Cloudwater, Sureshot and Track.

Do you belong to a book club or other group looking for somewhere to meet? Planning a birthday or other celebration? Contact us in order to reserve our snug (suitable for 6-10 guests). We do not hire out the entire premises. We do not accept reservations for any groups smaller than 6, unless a member of your party has a special need.

We’re at 33 Flixton Road, Urmston’s high street (what3words///snail.sounds.drop). We encourage our customers to walk, cycle or take public transport to reach us. Plan your journey using the travel tools at Transport for Greater Manchester.

We are a few doors down from Urmston train station which is on the stopping service that links Manchester Oxford Road with Liverpool Lime Street.

Buses on routes 15, 23, 245, 248 and 254 all stop nearby.

We have no dedicated car parking spaces at our premises. On-street parking along Flixton Road is limited to 2 hours until 6pm Monday-Saturday. There is a large multi-storey car park behind the Eden Square Sainsbury’s off Croft Bank’s Road which offers three hours of free parking during the day and free evening parking after 6pm.

Accessibility. There is one 6-inch step into our premises (no handrail). We have a portable ramp we can bring out for wheelchair users. There is a fully accessible WC on the ground floor.

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We’ve had a few mentions by Manchester’s Finest in print and online, praising us for both our bar element and burgeoning fridges. They rate us as one of Manchester’s Best Booze Shops and also say ‘If you’re thirsty – this is the best place to come in Urmston by far.’ We’ve been named one of TimeOut’s Ten Great Manchester Beer Shops and Pellicle’s Matthew Curtis included us in his guide to Manchester’s world-beating beer scene published by CAMRA.

After hosting a meeting of the local Trafford & Hulme CAMRA branch, we were featured in the December 2015 edition of the Opening Times.

The local Trafford & Hulme branch of CAMRA voted us runner-up best newcomer for 2015. Our other CAMRA accolades include LocAle pub of the branch for 2016 and 2019, plus runner-up branch pub of the year for 2022.

We were mentioned by Tony Naylor in his blog for The Guardian in July 2015 in an assessment of pubs like us that don’t do food. He pointed out how Manchester in particular has seen “a remarkable recent growth in suburban bars that exclusively specialise in great beer.” His verdict on the micropub trend? “Stock high-quality, unusual drinks and that, in itself, can turn a pub into a destination.”

Tony Naylor also mentioned us in his 2015 piece for Olive Magazine titled Why We Love Craft Beer, in which he encouraged readers to ‘treasure the distinctive atmosphere of food-free bars…try Urmston’s Prairie Schooner.’

We’ve also been featured on the Urmston Independents blog and have been profiled by the Manchester Evening News along with several other independent businesses in the neighbourhood.

Here’s our press release for the September 2014 edition of the local CAMRA Opening Times.

Another preview piece appeared in Manchester Confidential in October 2014, again before we opened and still had a prototype of our logo floating around on the interwebs.

We’re most interested in hearing what our customers have to say which is why we’re on TripAdvisor. We welcome your reviews there and on Facebook as well, along with the Micropub Association, Beer In The Evening and Pubs Galore.