Pub review: Tapped Beer Co, Leeds
It’s quite a job. given that this huge mirror holds in place 14 taps from which beers of all description are poured. High above, clipboards display the latest selection, with several coming directly from the brewhouse on the other side of the room.
There, an eye-catching row of conical fermenters are seeing the latest on-site brews through the last stages of the process. Sacks of malt are stacked behind the shiny copper mash tuns where legendary Yorkshire brewer Dave Sanders is busy going through his daily routines.
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Hide AdPipes cross the ceiling, carrying the beer from the brewkit to their 1,500-litre serving tanks beside the bar, their simple utility incorporated into a design which has seen the building stripped back to its basics with a vast network of wiring, pipework and air conditioning ducts laid bare.
A double set of glass doors offers an effective baffle from the world outside, shutting out the noise and bustle, and opening onto a simple, single-storey bar whose left edge is dominated by the dramatic polished steel of the brewhouse; the right edge by the bar.
Now well established in this space beneath the Trinity Centre, Tapped has brought to Leeds