The Craft Beer Chronicles: Origin of Species, Hops Edition

It’s hop harvest season and anyone within a ten mile radius of a hop farm will be able to smell it. For the rest of us, which, let’s face it, is most of us, it’s up to our imaginations, aided by sticking our noses into a freshly poured pale ale. Earlier this summer, however, I found myself in Seattle on […]

London’s Best Brewery Beer Gardens

While almost every brewery in London does have outdoor space, these are breweries with a slightly more curated “beer garden” feel as opposed to being in a car park, regardless of how amazing the beer might be (Pressure Drop, we’re looking at you).

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.

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 […]