[vic] Good Beer Bars In Essendon / Coburg Area

[WarmBeer]

Am meeting a mate for a couple of beers after work tomorrow night.

Do any locals in the Essendon / Strathmore / Pascoe Vale / Coburg area know of any good bars / cafe's with a good craft beer selection?

Food is a plus, but not the driving force.

 

[Polar Beer]

Am meeting a mate for a couple of beers after work tomorrow night.

Do any locals in the Essendon / Strathmore / Pascoe Vale / Coburg area know of any good bars / cafe's with a good craft beer selection?

Food is a plus, but not the driving force.

:huh: Short answer is, I reckon you're in trouble
Longer answer is get a cab over to Brunswick (The Brunswick Green, The Retreat, The Edinburgh Castle) or even Northcotte (Northcotte Social Club) and you'll have a much better shot at it. The Terminus in Clifton Hill is probably the closest real beer place to Essendon.

3 Ravens are in Thornbury, but I dont think you can drink there.

Cheers
Polar

 

[devo]

The above mentioned Brunswick watering holes are where you should be heading. I live in Coburg and unfortunately the pubs are far from suitable for our refined drinking tastes.....my local is my garage.

The Brunswick green has improved over the last 6 months with the owners spending some $$$ on a very nice out door beer garden. A reasonable selection of bottle beers as well as Copper, Mountain goat and Blue tongue pilsner on tap.

 

[HoppingMad]

Essendon has an irish kit pub called O'Sullivans. Never been but you could get a pint of something there.

Coburg appears to have nada.

If you're prepared to head to somewhere like High St Northcote I reckon you'd fare better.
A link to a list of bars here, but no mention of beers:
Northcote Bars

Sadly St Arnou used to have a brewpub in Preston but that has since folded.

The guys are right, you'll fare better heading to Brunswick - or to hit the motherlode, go to Lambsgobar just off Smith St Collingwood. Has a beerlist so big it will make your head spin.

Hopper.

 

[manticle]

If you do end up heading Brunswick way there is a new bar on Sydney Rd called Bar Ettiquette which supposedly has some good beers. yet to check it out myself - was just informed by the lady.

http://www.baretiquette.com.au/ and http://www.baretiquette.com.au/Media/WINDOWMenu.pdf

Of course if you can make it to Sydney Rd it's just a hop skip and a jump to Nicholson St and Bar Fred but that's getting very far removed from Coburg.

http://www.barfred.com.au/ (website playing tricks on me at the moment). good pizza too.

Doesn't really answer your question. Maybe just head to the world beer shop in Essendon/Moonee Ponds, get whatever you want (amazing range) then sit in the back yard?

The World Beer Shop. Address: Cnr Albion & Primrose St Essendon, Vic. 3040 (03) 9370

 

[Polar Beer]

Essendon has an irish kit pub called O'Sullivans. Never been but you could get a pint of something there.

Coburg appears to have nada.

If you're prepared to head to somewhere like High St Northcote I reckon you'd fare better.
A link to a list of bars here, but no mention of beers:
Northcote Bars

Sadly St Arnou used to have a brewpub in Preston but that has since folded.

The guys are right, you'll fare better heading to Brunswick - or to hit the motherlode, go to Lambsgobar just off Smith St Collingwood. Has a beerlist so big it will make your head spin.

Hopper.

O'Sullivans isn't the worst. I'm a dead set Guinness solider and I can drink the pint there. The Linc in Essendon Nth is OK if you are up for Carlton and a bet on the dogs/harness etc. If fact, there are a few of those types of places in the area.
But seriously, go up Sydney rd. Get a kebab at Alasya's, go to the pub, get another kebab on the way home...

 

[Pennywise]

I used to live in Strathmore, and unfortunatly there isn't much at all. O'Sullivans is a good pub, they just don't have the range us beer snobs would be looking for. At least you know you'll get a pint of Guiness, well, Aussie guiness anyway.

Edit: Personally, you couldn't pay me to drink at the Linc

 

[HoppingMad]

But seriously, go up Sydney rd. Get a kebab at Alasya's, go to the pub, get another kebab on the way home...

Mmmm... Alaysia kebabs... :icon_drool2: now you're talking. Not a beer but if you could bottle one of those delicious morsels you would!

Hopper.

 

[WarmBeer]

Thanks guys,

The Brunswick Green, followed by Bar Ettiquette it is.

Who says you can't get us South-East suburbs boys to cross the Yarra?

 

[Polar Beer]

Edit: Personally, you couldn't pay me to drink at the Linc

:lol:
yep. It's a sh*t hole. But not bad enough to go thirsty over. The Royal on Mount Rd, now that's pub I couldn't drink in. No respect in that place for a quiet beer. All pokies and bistro. Crap.
Not a great part of the Melbourne for pubs altogether. The old man used to drink in the old Brickmakers Arms before/after the footy (recently the Keg, more recently appartments?). He liked it. Was rough though.
The Grand...enough said about the Grand. <_<