If you are anything like me sometimes you just like to go to bar. It doesn’t have to have good beer there but for some reason you enjoy the atmosphere. A wooden bar, jukebox and deep fried bar food. But what if you could find that sort of bar and still get great beer? That is exactly what Hulmeville Inn is.
Right across the Neshaminy Creek from my hometown of Bensalem (I swear this place is 3 minutes from my house growing up), the Hulmeville Inn resides in a building that is over 200 years old. It’s history includes being a hotel for stage coaches going between Phildalephia and Trenton. It was an ice cream parlor during prohibition. Now it is one of the Philadelphia area’s premier beer bars. It won Best of Philly Beer Bar of the Burbs in 2010 and is up for the award again this year.
Everything about the building itself screams old school and watering hole. The whole Hulmeville area makes you feel like you may have stepped back in time a few years. But the taps on are anything but ancient.
The 18 tap draft list is constantly rotated with just a couple exceptions always being on. There is almost always a brew on nitro and beer engine is behind the bar for Firkin Fridays (first friday of the month) and special events. The bottle list is pretty impressive as well.
The food menu is filled with bar favorites including wings, burgers and assorted sandwiches. I have eaten almost every time I go here and enjoy it each time.
The only slight downfall, and I’m only taking a very small amount away for this, is smoking. While it may seem odd to folks in certain areas of the country that a bar with food allows smoking, Bucks County does not have any anti smoking laws of this sort. If it is really crowded and a lot of people are smoking it can get smokey quick but if you go for happy hour or during the day there may only be one or two people in there lit up. It’s then pretty insignificant.
I know when people talk Philly beer the bars they tell you about are always Monk’s Cafe, Capone’s, McGillian’s and such. But the Burbs have some gems too and the Hulmeville Inn is a shining one.
Hulmeville Inn
4 Trenton Rd
Hulmeville, PA 19047
215-750-6893
http://www.hulmevilleinn.com/
2 Comments
Great bar, great beer, but the smoke from the mainly non-craft beer lovers who are almost always drinking bud/coors/miller is totally out of control. If the owner went non-smoking I’m certain the business would increase. If the Happy Hour can survive smoke free, then the Hulmeville most certainly can too.
April 29, 2011 at 1:08 pmYeah Dan I did notice that most of the smokers were trying the macro stuff.
April 29, 2011 at 2:43 pm