what is a public house tap room?

Question

tap room,vaults

Answer 1

it is a term used for real ale houses.

the tap room is where hand drawn beer is served as opposed to bottled beer or gas fed pumps

Answer 2

This excerpt from the referenced website should cover both questions:

"The term 'vault' had two meanings locally, one meaning a tap room where customers were served from tapped barrels over a bar (started by a landlord of the Pack Horse on Higher Hillgate, who opened a special room commonly called the Vault) or as in the case of the Baker's Vaults, signifying underground chambers for storing wines."

Answer 3

Found this on this site:

http://www.rocknroll.force9.co.uk/pubs/partition.html

"A century ago in 1900, City pubs were muckier places where working class men met to slake their thirst, got paid after work, and met for meetings and to smoke. As a consequence, they were split into lounges and rooms for different groups to enjoy for differing purposes. A door was pushed shut and a room could become an instant smoky committee room for an ad hoc union meeting.

This led to rooms being set out for differing purposes, often there were rooms where women were not alowed, so the builders and factory workers could carry on swearing to each other without causing offence. And almost all pubs had a Lounge ( best room ), and a Tap Room ( tap 'ole ) where people would be allowed in without having to get changed or remove their boots. Most of the time, the beer was a penny cheaper in't tap 'ole."

The common theory is that the Tap Room may have been the room that contained the bar originally, and thus often held a couple of barrels of ale on a table.

Answer 4

In times gone by, you had two bars in most pubs, The Smoking Lounge (Saloon Bar) and the Tap Room (Public Bar). Typically the Smoking Lounge did not have a bar in it. Beer and other drinks were supplied from the Tap Room - from 'To tap a barrel' as in old wooden barrels.

Some pubs had no bar at all and all drinks were served from the cellar or a back room.

Answer 5

The phrase "tap room" goes back to when beer was served straight from the barrel via a tap (= faucet). Common people drank it in the tap room, beside the barrels, while the "Quality" customers sat in a barrel-free room and had it brought to them in a tankard.

As the years passed, the phrase continued to be applied to the room where hand pumps drew the beer up from barrels in the cellar, and then to where they just dispense it from pressurised kegs under the counter. The style of "tap" has changed, but the name remains.

Answer 6

the taproom is the rough side in a pub where the blokes prop up the bar.or stand about it usually is the small room and has one long back rest seat attached to the wall .they have the dart board and pool table and the TV in there.in the past they they didn`t like women or girls going in there so it must have been where men tried to hide from their wife.If men where out with their wives and girl friends they used to go and sit down in the lounge ,but every time they went to the bar it was their excuse to disapear in the tap end ,and not come back for ages
i know this because where i live ,like most things it hasn`t changed

Answer 7

In the past beer was delivered in wooden barrels with no tap so the cellar man would have to knock a tap into the barrel to extract the contents for pumping up to the bar above by hand via a brass pump.Today beer comes in aluminium kegs and has gas added to force the beer out.

Answer 8

Originally, a taproom was part of a pub where liquor was available 'on tap'...ie what we would now probably call 'on draught'...meaning immediately available via a tap. Of course, we now use the phrase 'on tap' to signify anything that is as readily available.

Answer 9

years ago before we had theme pubs and bars the tap room was the public bar as opposed to the lounge

Answer 10

Atap room is where peole go to dance with funny shoes on thaty make a noise when the move... like Fred Astaire