A place where alcoholic drinks, especially beer, were available on tap; a public house.
Example sentencesExamples
His custom suffers because the policemen take their drinks in the taphouses.
Heminges probably owned the taphouse which adjoined the first Globe.
Numerous reports were made of beer being served in taphouses while divine service was under way in the church.
For mine own part, I never come into any room in a taphouse, but I am drawn in.
In 1756 a certain Thomas Gresham died from injuries sustained in a fight which began in the taphouse but, remarkably enough, the City records contain no other references to such drunken brawls.