Liverpool Organic Ale at the Hole in Ye Wall, Liverpool

This pub was our last venue on our Dale Street tour, and it was rumoured to be the oldest pub in the city. It’s also fascinating to see that this pub has survived considering the venue next door is also a pub which occupies the street corner. Surely at some point it might have made sense to merge the two businesses, even if the pub’s interior prevented knocking the building through. Inside, cosy would be the best adjective to describe the interior of this pub. There’s just a small room at the front and a corridor with a few bar stools. The bar continues into a larger area with an ornate snug which we shared with a group from Poland before our singing helped them to make a gracious and friendly exit. The pub is named because it’s on the site of an old graveyard so the beer is kept upstairs for hygiene reasons and is fed through a wall rather than from a line from the cellar.