July - Mounting Stone
Mounting Stone
8 Woodford Road, Bramhall, SK7 1JJ
Dave Pennington tells you about the Mounting Stone in the centre of Bramhall on Woodford Road which receives July's Pub of the Month award.
The Mounting Stone opened in June 2016
and has been operating since then under the leadership of Andrew O'Shea and his team. It's the sister pub to Cheadle Hulme's Chiverton Tap.
It's a cosy, friendly, community micropub in the centre of the village, operating on two floors, with an additional outdoor seating beer garden to the rear. There is a cosy basement drinking area below the ground floor bar. The shop-front entrance and interior were tastefully redecorated last year. The pub is on the site of a blacksmith's or farrier's. The stone referred to in the pub's name was for mounting horses and is still to be found a short distance away, up the road towards Woodford.
The pub has six cask lines, including a permanent dark beer, and a real cider. Its two house beers are Bollington Brewery's Best Bitter and Long Hop. Andrew recently added two further keg lines, making a total of ten keg lines covering all beer styles. Alongside the draught selection there is also a good variety of bottles and cans available. There are monthly quiz nights and charity nights.
In 2019, Andrew started an in-house brewery – Made of Stone – using a one-barrel plant. Here he brews twice monthly, usually one-off casks and kegs. The Mounting Stone is proud to have been in the last six consecutive issues of the Good Beer Guide.
Join us for the presentation on the evening of 27 July, when a great night is in prospect. The pub is located in the centre of Bramhall village, a short walk from the railway station, and is served in the evening by the 378A bus from Stockport and Cheadle/Cheadle Hulme.