Craft beer with a nostalgic twist, born from the influential culture of the 80s and 90s.
Middlesbrough's newest exciting craft brewery / taproom / event space. We have a exceptional core range of brewed craft beers.
Ideal for private hire for corporate, wedding receptions, christenings & big birthdays.
Always love coming! Fantastic drinks, amazing pizza and staff are always friendly Big fan of the quizzes Pizzas are insanely cheap for the size and quality
Smashing pints, friendly staff and entertaining and well put together quizzes. Always a wide variety of events to fit everyone’s tastes with a quality atmosphere. Pizza is banging from Lucky Teds as well
Overall I liked the place, decent selection of drinks, nice and prompt staff(in general) but I cannot say I was at all impressed with the staff member running the quiz. He was drunk before the quiz even started, insulted patrons if they had answers different to his even if they were correct and didn't even have most of the questions prepared so had to make it up as he went along. If you are paying beforehand for a quiz you expect at least some preparation. Please replace the person doing the quizzes with someone competent if you are charging them so much.
Really great venue for a quiet drink or a brilliant event/quiz night. Lots of great drink options. Have been multiple times and love it here. Also have Lucky Teds pizza on site which is huge and tasty!
This is the 3rd time I’ve been to Play Brew’s taproom and it’s a shame the experience has been marred. Normally it’s quiet but there was a quiz on and the place was packed. Not that I was bothered as we stood outside and enjoyed a beer, it was a warm night anyway. Weirdly, barely anyone was going up to the bar while we were there despite the tables being packed, it was clear people were only there for the quiz. Maybe this explains why the staff were miserable as there was never a queue so they might have been bored. After the quiz finished literally everyone left apart from us, we sat on a table and bought another drink. We were planning to stay til their stated closing time (which was 12am) but the staff just kept giving off bad signals like looking over, staring at their phones (which they did most of the night), giving off awful body language, and finally packing the tables up around us very loud and dragging the benches right next to us across the floor then flipping them over, leaving us on a single table in the middle of the room, marooned awkwardly lol. This was just after 11pm so we’d have been happy to stay and get a couple more rounds in. However the staff really couldn’t imply that we weren't welcome to stay any stronger without saying it. We had come from Newcastle just for here really and paid for a hotel for the 3rd time. Really disappointed to be honest because I do love their beers and tend to drink them in other micropubs and I do like the taproom as well. I think we probably spent more in an hour and a half than most tables spent all night as you never seen anyone ordering drinks even during the interval, I’d been to the bar 4 times and ordered 2 drinks each time. You’d just think they’d have more appreciation for people actually coming purely for the beer and not the quiz as they are the ones who tend to become regulars. If you’re going to pack stuff away loudly around customers you should probably tell them you’re closing or that it’s last orders, odd. It’s just basic hospitality skills really. You’d expect this from staff at some chain pub like spoons or Greene king where they don’t care about the job but you expect a bit more from an independent brewery trying to promote themselves, you’d assume they’d have more reason to come across well and promote their brand. Evidently not.
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Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS1 
