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This is a family-run, award-winning establishment that focuses on quality and choice. Boasting fourteen handpumps for beer, complemented by up to twelve craft and membrane keg beers, and a large foreign bottled range. Digital beer boards display all current beers on sale. It has a bustling vault to the left, leading to a lower pool room (where you can view the micro-brewery), and a series of rooms separated by arched 'magnet' doorways on the right. An extensive outdoor area, part-covered, part open, allows drinkers to marvel at Stockport's historic railway viaduct. The twin-storey beer terrace and function room are well used and popular. The upstairs room opens at busy times and weekends; a pizza vendor operates over weekend evenings from 5.30pm, order them from the purpose-built shack at the rear of the premises. The in-house microbrewery (originally named Watts Brewing, but renamed as Mount Crescent as of 1/12/2022) produces seasonal ales, it opened on 14/11/2014 to coincide with the pub's fifth birthday since re-opening as a free-house.
Historic Interest
Re-opened on 14/11/2009 in its current free house guise. Within 22 months of being rescued from failure, the rejuvenated Magnet won acclaim as both CAMRA Regional and Branch Pub of the Year for the years 2011, 2015, and 2020. In 1949 it became a Wilsons Brewery house following merger with Walker & Homfray's Brewery, originally it was a Daniel Clifton & Co house, it was one of the pubs involved in pub-swap to John Smiths in the 1990s.
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This Pub serves 13 changing beers and 1 regular beer.
Magnet, Stockport
ever-changing guest beers
Changing beers typically include: RedWillow (varies) , Track (varies)
Source: National
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