The BreweryTap

Spitting Feathers — Matthew Walley's farm brewery, brewing at Common Farm in Waverton since 2005 — opened its city tap in 2008 in the one room in Chester most pubs would kill for: the Jacobean great hall of Gamul House on Lower Bridge Street, where Charles I is said to have stayed in 1645, a claim the guide passes on without notarising. CAMRA gave the conversion its conservation award in 2009 and, more usefully, named it West Cheshire Pub of the Year in 2025. The estate is three taps in all — here, the Station Tap, and one over the water in West Kirby — which is the right size for a brewery that still farms. Sandstone, beams, and beer that travelled seven miles.