Ramsbottom Tap

Ramsbottom Tap opened as a free house on Bolton Street in 2015, part of the wave of small micropubs that followed the format's spread from Kent into the North West. There is no tie to a brewery, so the taps and casks rotate independently of any single supplier, running to about ten craft kegs, five real ales and six ciders at any one time, plus a gluten-free beer and a frizzante on tap for anyone not drinking cask. The room keeps to micropub conventions: no fruit machines, no piped music, and a layout built around conversation rather than a dance floor or big screen. It draws a mix of regulars from the town and visitors walking up from Ramsbottom's East Lancashire Railway station, especially on market days when Bolton Street is busy with stalls.