Category: Pubs & Bars

It turns out that while I was hunting down Snowmen in Bromley Jezza was updating the Guide entries for Bromley. Talk about good timing. It meant that, this week, I had confirmation from my first target that they would indeed be open at 12:00. And they were. Bromley had been chosen as I had seen reports the week before of a beer from Marlix Brewery […]

These trips don’t always go to plan. The planned destination was Brixton, an area I love visiting. Lots of great places to visit in a relatively compact area. Checking before hand showed that two places opened at 11:00 meaning that it was possible to make an early start. Except that both of the 11:00 openers now open at 12:00. That’s why we do these trips, […]

So after a remarkably restrained day on Saturday, and with a day off work on Monday, what better way to spend Sunday than to some of the more local revisits. My first destination was BrewDog Shepherd’s Bush, my favourite BD in London and conveniently reachable by bus from home. One of the reasons for heading here, asides from the need to revisit, was to collect […]

If I have one major gripe with visiting bars in London it’s the fact that so few of them seem to open before 12:00 but maybe that’s just me. This week however I spotted that one of the places on the Guide “To Do” list opened at 10:00. Result! I worked out that I could spend a hour there and still get down to my […]

Things are improving, not only did I set out this week with a plan but I had an actual itinerary. Don’t worry, this level of organisation won’t last. Indeed it nearly didn’t this week as once I told Jezza of my plans he immediately responded with, well as you’ll be there could you just pop in to… Enough of the preamble, on to the details. […]

Another week, more ‘research.’ This time I left home with a plan. I had a list of 12 Guide entries in a relatively small geographical area. This is how I used to roll, things were getting back to normal. Except. I hadn’t allowed for just how out of practice I was, my body still isn’t used to this. The list was 12, in days of […]

After last weekends successful research trip I decided I was good to go again. Time to catch up with the bars that have been added during my enforced absence and also time to recommence my project to revisit all entries – purely for quality control purposes you understand! The day didn’t start well when I go to my first new entry only to find that […]

A while ago I arranged with Jeremy to go out on another Beer Guide London research trip, a chance to catch up, be sociable and drink lots of sparkling mineral water. In reality it was this date on my calendar that sowed the initial seed that led to my eventual decision to start drinking again. It was now going to be a “proper” research trip! […]