The Baltic Fleet occupies a Grade II listed flat-iron building on Wapping, on Liverpool's old dock road close to the Albert Dock. The pub dates to the 1850s and began as two adjoining premises, one known as the Turner's Vaults, combined into a single bar in 1901; its name is said to recall the crews of Siberian whaling ships who once drank there. From 2002 to 2016 it brewed its own beer in the cellar as Wapping Brewery, a four-barrel plant producing an ever-changing range of cask ales. Brewing has since stopped, but the pub, still family run, keeps a rotating line-up of cask and craft beer from independent North West breweries, plus a log-warmed front bar and a beer garden looking over the dock road. Open seven days from midday, it draws dockworkers, match-day crowds and waterfront visitors alike.
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