The 'best' pint of beer at Birmingham's Christmas markets is also the cheapest

While the Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market has been serving beers and bratwursts in full Christmas swing for the past two weeks, the festive craft alternative, round the corner on Pigeon Park has only just begun. Christmas in Cathedral Square, that festive market round on Pigeon Park, opened on Wednesday, November 13.

As is annual tradition for us here at BirminghamLive, we went round on launch day, to nose at the vendors and scope out the prices. There are two pop-up pubs on the square this year, with Bab's Tap serving mulled wines and flavoured hot whiskey for £6 and the Pigeon in the Park serving up pints of Carling, Blue Moon, Staropramen, Aspall, Madri and Guinness for £7 a pop.

Those prices match up with those round on New Street and Victoria Square, where German weissbier is also £7. But one stall in Pigeon Park has beers for 70p cheaper than any of those stalls, and it's probably the freshest pint you'll find at any wooden stand in town this year.

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Vagabond, that special little wine bar on Colmore Row, has a pitch this year and it's serving Attic Brewery beer on tap alongside other special drinks. Attic, the brilliant Birmingham brewery in Stirchley, is renowned for its freshly-brewed beer and its lager, Forward, is celebrated by many Brummies as 'the best' (not to mention it's named after our city motto). It's just £6.30 a pint on the Vagabond stand.

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The 4.2% lager is described as 'light, refreshing and crisp' by experts at Attic, who say it has a 'subtle but complex flavour'. It takes traditional brewing approaches from German and Czech lagers too, so if German lager vibes is what you want from the market this year, that's covered.

The lager can wash down food from the array of vendors at this year's Cathedral Square market, including Yorkshire pudding wraps, a big bag of scratchings, balti chips, fried chicken, crepes, curry, steak and chips and burritos.

Attic Brewery is celebrating six years of brewing in Birmingham. Its taproom, on Mary Vale Road in Stirchley, will be filled with fun on Saturday, November 23 as they throw a big party to mark the occasion. There's a festive Red IPA in the works for a Christmas drink too, if you can't make it to the market to see them - that's where you'll get the best prices.