Category: Pubs & Bars

29 March 2024

Beer Guide London Visits – 29/03/2024

Star Tavern (1 / 22) This is a classic London mews pub tucked away in a quiet residential street surrounded by Embassies. This Fuller’s pub doesn’t have the greatest range, but what it does serve is in fantastic condition. Sometimes less is more. This is a great place to just sit, soak in the history and enjoy some perfectly served cask ales. Fuller’s – London […]

General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

24 March 2024

Beer Guide London Visits – 23/03/2024

Clapton Craft (St John’s Hill) (1 / 13) Compact bottle shop opposite Clapham Junction station. They pack a lot in to a small space with at least 4 beers on tap and a vast selection of both packaged beers and wines. Limited seating inside and a couple of benches on the street. Braybrooke x Clapton Craft – Clapton Helles 4.5% (Draft) waterintobeer (2 / 14) […]

General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

22 March 2024

Beer Guide London Visits – 22/03/2024

Welcome to what I hope will be the new style of post when covering my Beer Guide London visits. I am planning on writing as much as possible of each post whilst I am actually sat in the bars, although this may drop off as the day goes on… If I can achieve this, and more importantly, maintain it, then it will be a much […]

Beer General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

25 January 2024

Beer Guide London Visits 30 – Hackney

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 […]

Beer General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

4 December 2023

Beer Guide London Visits 29 – South East London

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 […]

Beer General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

30 October 2023

Beer Guide London Visits 28 – South West London

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 […]

Beer General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

22 August 2023

Beer Guide London Visits 27 – East London

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 […]

Beer General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars Scooping

30 July 2023

Beer Guide London Visits 26 – The Elizabeth Line

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 […]

Beer General London Beer Guide Pubs & Bars

19 June 2023

Beer Guide London Visits 25 – Clerkenwell

Despite not arriving home from my Polish trip until the early hours I had to make sure I got myself up and about in order to go and see the band Tool at the O2 Arena that night. As I was still on holiday it would have been rude not to stop off somewhere en route for a bit of Guide research. I ended up […]

Beer General Pubs & Bars Scooping

12 June 2023

Wrocław Bars

As with all of my beer trips the main source of information I used was the Untappd app but as I was in Poland I also used the ever excellent ontap.pl app which gives even more information about what is pouring at the bars it lists, including prices, and it is updated in real time by its user base. As noted in my main article […]