Is there good craft beer in Central London?
A question as old as the city itself. The answer, weirdly enough, is the same as it would have been 400 years ago: Sort Of, But You Have To Be Careful.
London’s Best Brewery Beer Gardens
While many pubs boast leafy refuge from the stifling heat, here are some top brewery beer gardens around London in order to help you weather the…weather.
Dalston Drafts and Stokey Sippin’: A Guide
Oh Dalston. It’s loved, it’s hated. The Dalston drag from Junction station running north for half a mile has undergone transformations befitting a participant on Queer Eye. Stoke Newington, about 10 minutes north on foot, is the bourgeois bohemian paradise that has passers-by stopping outside every Estate Agent, looking longingly at the listings as if they could afford one.
A Beer Tourist’s Guide To…Portland, Maine
Yep, turns out there’s two of ’em. Indeed, the two Portlands perfectly typify the raging debate that has decimated US craft beer nerd-istry for the best part of a decade: Which IPA is better, East Coast or West Coast?
Wandering in Walthamstow: A Guide
Controversy rained from the skies when we published the Blackhorse Road guide and claimed it wasn’t Walthamstow (well, one person emailed us to politely voice their disagreement). Thus, here is an actual guide to the independent craft venues in Walthamstow “proper”, a triple whammy requiring very little walking effort indeed. Pillars BreweryLager specialists and really cute looking little stubby bottle […]
London Fields Fun: A Guide
The temptation at London Fields is to get a few tinnies from the off license and sit on the grass, sipping away while the sun beats down and your friends weigh up whether playing music on a speaker is antisocial or not (it is). The issue with this is simply that we only get about 10 days of sunshine per […]
Sippin’ in South Lambeth: A Guide
You could call it South Lambeth, Nine Elms, even Stockwell – this area suffers from being in between better known neighbourhoods such as Brixton, Clapham and Battersea and therefore has done that thing that in-betweener areas do – play host to a couple of breweries. There are two of London’s best, plus a craft beer institution of a pub, that […]
Get into Craft Beer: Untappd Potential
Dropping e’s in perfectly acceptable words since 2014.
The Hackney Wick Canal Crew: A Guide
Just don’t fall into the canal.
LCBF 2021 Guide: Discover Your New Favourite Brewery (again!)
As the old saying goes, beer festivals are like London buses: an unprecedented global pandemic cancels them all for a year and half, then a whole load come along at once.