Category: Beer

Upminster Tap Room (1 / 73) Micropub a short walk from Upminster station. Cask beers are served on gravity from the glass fronted cold room. There are usually half a dozen cask ales on offer alongside 4 draft beers and a small packaged selection. There is an emphasis on showcasing local breweries, but beers from all over the country may be encountered. Guaranteed a friendly […]

Craft Beer Co. (St Mary Axe) (1 / 50) Branch of Craft Beer Co in the heart city a stones throw from the Gherkin. As with many bars in the City it only opens during the week. Typical of this family of bars with the usual excellent range available on both draft and cask. Seating is split across two levels and it can get busy […]

London Beer Lab Tap Room (1 / 42) Tiny arch taproom and original home of London Beer Lab brewery. Beers are still brewed here on the smaller kit and labelled on the board as Nano, with longer run beers brewed on their larger kit in Loughborough Junction. Up to 30 beers on tap and several well stocked fridges. They always brew a wide range of […]

18th June 2022 Nowadays we are used to finding good beer and good bars all over London but there was a time when you really had to hunt around. Bermondsey started the change with the nascent beer mile but Hackney and Hackney Wick were quick to follow in its footsteps. Today’s plan was to start at the northern end of Hackney and work south getting […]

11th June 2022 So I know that I am well behind with my posting so I’ll start including the date of the visit so that it can be put in to context. I will also continue to highlight any changes in Guide status of any of the places that get mentioned. On with the waffle! Things were still not fully back to normal on my […]

After two days of longer distance travelling I decided to spend a day revisiting some of the Guide entries closer to home starting with a relatively short bus journey in to Twickenham, alighting outside the Sussex Arms for the first visit of the day. This pub is a member of the Big Smoke family and their beers are well represented as well as plenty of […]

The Friday of the long Bank Holiday weekend saw me riding the District line to it’s final stop at Upminster and a day exploring the far Eastern reaches of Guide territory. A ten minute walk from the tube station brought me to the first stop of the day, Upminster Tap Room. This is a slightly larger than usual micropub with a good range of cask […]

After a month at work while the new system went live I was getting desperate to get out and about again. Fortunately the long Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend gave me ample opportunity to do just that. My first choice was to visit some bars by using the newly opened Elizabeth Line. I’d been using the Heathrow to Paddington stretch as a route in to […]