Hobart Pubs

It's always hard knowing where to go to get a drink in a strange town, so for those of you that may be travelling to Hobart we did the work for you...a hard job, but someone's got to do it. 

 Jack Greene in Salamanca - working hard to be olde-worlde shabby-chic, but actually only a week old.

16 beers on tap, but a lot of them are mainstream generics like Peroni and Miller so you still struggle to find something interesting to drink - hopefully this will change as they get a bit older and gain confidence. They did have a good range of bottles but they were all pretty pricey. They also left the door open on a freezing cold day, you had to stay rugged up inside which didn't make it very relaxing!

Knopwoods Retreat, just next door at Salamanca. Not as many beers on tap but a pretty good selection of domestic brews & a couple of more unusual beers. Friendly service, more of a traditional pub and with a big log fire keeping the place warm. And a spectacular oil painting of the 1967 fires on the wall. Maybe that t-shirt wasn't the wisest choice for Tasmania though.

Preachers, just up the hill at Salamanca / Battery Point. Requires a bit of finding, it's not one you'll stumble on accidentally, but it's worth the hunt

 Now this is an interesting beer list, with a local wine list to match

The place itself is like a big converted house. I reckon that on weekends it would get pretty busy, but midweek it was very relaxing and a great place to settle down & recuperate from a hard day of site-seeing. Very friendly service too.

Customs House Hotel, harbourside. More of a classic Aussie pub, but a bit of an icon and worth a visit if you're passing. Also has an up-market restaraunt attached.

The Lark Distillery Cellar Door, Harbourside. Not a pub as such but a good place to sample the excellent wares of the Lark Distillery. Very friendly service and a chance to pick up some local gossip & fermentation-nerd stories (such as they open the fermentors to capture wild yeasts, so their whiskey flavours will vary from batch to batch depending on the time of year). They also have a bluegrass band on on a Friday night, sadly we weren't there over the weekend so we had to miss that.  

North Sydney (Edit - that should be the New Sydney), Hobart CBD. One of the more 'locally' pubs we went to, at the recommendation of Roger at the Lark. Great range of local beers, good fire, friendly service & a nice range of food (although the kitchen was closed when we were there).

They even had an infuser on the bar. I'm guessing that in the summer this is used to pull beer through fresh hop flowers but this time they were running a pale ale through an infusion of dried chipotle chilli & lime. It was - interesting. Worth trying, but only a small glass!

 The Hope & Anchor. Australias oldest pub, and unfortunately closed down. A sign of the times?

We also visited a few more places but didn't take pictures -

Squires, Salamanca Square. It's a Squires bar - what else can I say?

The Grape, Salamanca. Associated with Squires but a lot more 'cool'. More aimed at wine drinkers (as you probably guessed by the name) and claiming up to 90 wines available by the glass, but also with some interesting bottled beers. 

Royal Victoria, CBD. The sign outside proclaimed 'Hobarts largest selection of local and imported beers'. It was fibbing.

Alley Cat, North Hobart. An older bar with a small stage, designed to suit a younger hipper audience. Looks like it would go off on a weekend night, but on a cold Tuesday it was pretty empty. And cold!

Republic, North Hobart. Another music bar but this one had fires and a better range of beers. They also did some excellent food.