I bloody love La Chouffe from Brasserie D’Achouffe. It is as important to my “beer journey” as any pint of Jaipur or first bottles of Tiny Rebel. My first glass was in Taverne Manneken Pis, a tourist trap of a pub (although perfectly good pub with usual fine selection of large Belgian family brewers) [...]
Temple Brew House is just a short couple minutes walking from the Thames, with lots of local tube stations to pick from including my short 9-minute walk back to Chancery Lane for the central line (there is even a handy wall poster in the pub with all the last tube times). Take a turn onto [...]
Best UK Cask Beer I've found this category a tough one this year, I've not drank less cask beer, if anything I think I have had more but I can't think of many that has really blown me away. Well apart from one right near the end of the year a couple weeks ago at [...]
I don't know about you but by the time it is Christmas, most years, I am sick of Christmas dinner! I'm not the biggest of turkey fans if I am to be honest (I'm more than happy for gammon>turkey), unless it comes in the Christmas sandwich format, then I am all for the full Christmas [...]
Before there was beer there was Hip Hop, a time when I wasn't spending all my cash on bottles and cans to take home but instead it was vinyl. I wasn't reading about different beers and the best places to drink them, I was reading EP reviews and looking out for the latest gigs. During [...]
Just a couple minutes’ walk from Vauxhall tube station (don’t follow the google maps directions that sends you down by the river front like I did!) tucked away under the wider train lines of Vauxhall is the new Mother Kelly's bar. With even more taps and even more table space than the original Bethnal Green [...]
After a week of blistering heat, the midweek July evening had taken a turn to the muggy side and you could sense a storm was brewing. The storm didn’t bother me, neither did being on the other side of London for a change as I was on my way to my first visit to The [...]
