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Manchester's best beer gardens

Fancy a drink in the sunshine? Here are ten where you can soak up the rays with a nice pint or two

Rob Martin
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Manchester's fantastic bars and pubs cater for every taste, from fancy cocktails to excellent craft ales. But we're also a rainy city, making outdoor drinking less available than in some other parts of the world.

Still, there are some fine examples of beer gardens across the region where you can enjoy a relaxed outdoor drink and, as there's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day, here are ten of Manchester's very best beer gardens.

Cheers.

Beer gardens in Manchester

  • Breweries
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Blackjack has grown from a small operation to one of the foremost craft beer suppliers in the area, with a portfolio of over 40 cask ales. They’ve transformed the site, which has the look of a mechanic’s garage, into something eminently more hospitable and with a beer garden fresh with the smell of herbs growing through the walls
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  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Inside, it’s a standard upmarket pub. Light and airy, with lots and lots of wood. Outside, there's an absolutely fantastic beer garden on the banks of the canal. It's like being in the countryside...
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  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
A recent refurb has revived this iconic city centre bar and café, which is nicely positioned within the Deansgate railway arches, with a quiet beer garden at the rear, away from the stresses of the city
One of the finest pubs in Ancoats has a small beer garden which resembles something out of Edward Scissorhands...
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Chorlton's Dulcimer is a warm and friendly drinking spot with a shaded garden out back where you can enjoy a fine ale or some of their tasty food
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  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Despite being better known for its entertaining line up of live performance and its owner, Paul Heaton, this lovely pub also has a sweet cobbled beer garden for a spot of the outdoors
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  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
The Bay Horse
The Bay Horse
The original Georgian exterior hides plenty of surprises contained within this marvelous Northern Quarter pub, not least of which is a small but perfectly formed beer garden
  • Gastropubs
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Apart from the wooden floors, a log fire and a piano in the corner giving the place an old-fashioned feel, there's a place to sit outside and take in the fresh (ish) air
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Dukes 92
Dukes 92
So, what's with the name? Adjacent to the pub is 'Dukes Lock' which is the 92nd and final lock on the Rochdale Canal. And what's more, the outside space makes for a fantastic spot in the summer too
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The Oust House
The Oust House
One of the most used outdoor beer gardens in the city centre sits slap in the heart of Spinningfields

More Manchester bars and pubs for when you're ready for another

The best pubs in Manchester are knocking out quality food, working with the finest indie brewers and craft beer bars, serving up top-notch entertainment and comedy and, well, just being somewhere nice to have a beer
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