“Drink Fresh”, they plead. These delicate, hazy “New England” IPAs – we want them at their best, and the people who brew them say we need to drink ’em now or forever hold our peace. But how much difference does time really make? Is this a marketing ploy to get you to drink fast and buy young?
Not gonna lie, before doing this we thought Deptford was in Surrey or somewhere. Now we’re really glad it’s not.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]