Hi guys.
I´m planning a weekend in London for next month. I will arrive on Friday morning (12th October) and leaves on Sunday (14th).
My plan is doing pubcrawl on Friday and Bermondsey on Saturday.
I´m travelling alone and for my first time to Bermondsey so any tip will be very welcome. Also, if anyone wants to pop up and share a couple of beers or even join me in the Friday Pubcrawl/Saturday Bermondsey Tour I will be very happy! Just comment here or shoot me a BM.
Cheers!
Friday Pubcrawl planned:
Obviously, it is subject to change if anyone wants to join.
I won’t be around but looks like a good schedule you have.
I would suggest one swap tho’ - get rid of the well and bucket. I’ve not been for a year but the selection on my last few visits was rather average.
Go here instead … it’s also on the way between MK and BD Shoreditch,
https://www.ratebeer.com/p/kings-arms/42603/
More taps and a much better list on offer including many bottles/cans.
Yeah, Kings Arms it´s a top notch! I was there in January and I liked a lot.
Now, I just need to look for a hotel near Bermondsey (maybe Whitechapel) and check the opening hours for a complete schedule.
I have just saw this event.
https://heistbankbeerfestival.com/
It´s takes place all the weekend. Anyone has any reference about it? It seems to take place in a pizzeria so maybe could be a good spot for lunch but it´s a bit far away from Hackney, around 45 mins according Google Maps and the entry fee is 15 pounds for only 2 tokens and a glass!!
Is that place still open? Haven’t been there in years. They are on my black list anyways, so I’d probably skip that one and replace it with this one -> Deviant & Dandy Brewery which is very near the experiment.
Thank you! Added to the list.
So, maybe something like this:
[Hackney Area]
13:00h The Cock Tavern
14:30h St. John
17:00h Deviant and Dandy
18:00h The Experiment
30 mins walk to [Bethnal Green]
19:30h Redchurch Brewery
20:30h Mother Kellys
21:15h Kings Arms
30 mins walk to [Aldgate]
22:30h Craft Beer Co St. Mary Axe
23:15h Brewdog Tower Hill till late.
Aaand the Bermondsey Schedule for Saturday, something like this:
10.00 Bottleshop Bermondsey
11.00 Anspach & Hobday
11.30 London Barrel project
12:15 Brew By Numbers
13.00 Ubrew
14.00 Spartan
14:30 Eebria
15:30 Affinity
16:00 Moor
16.30 Four pure
Looks good?
Thank you. Cheers!
More time at Spartan … surely 
Yeah. It´s all too tight because everything seems to close at 17:00.
I will need a local guide for not get lost myself! 
Moor is in between London Barrel Project and Brew by Numbers geographically.
Cloudwater Tap room will be open by then too. in between Brew By Numbers and Kernel I guess.
Spartan is dog shit. Don’t waste your time and money.
Maybe not … Wingman was in Manchester last weekend …they estimate a November opening !
Ok. Thank you.
If Cloudwater Taproom is open by then…schedule will change for sure!! I was in their Manchester Taproom and I liked it a lot (a little expensive though, especially the merch).
I could skip Spartan and add more time to FourPure but Spartan would be a New Brewery tick for me 
One more question about the taprooms, Do they accept cash or just credit cards?
Cheers!
Most take card for sure … I would almost say all but haven’t been to Spartan so can’t comment on them.
Just take a little cash with you but you probably won’t need to use it.
Oh and Spartan vs Fourpure … I went to Fourpure last month for the first time this year and picked up 7 ticks … all 3.4-3.7. They do tasting flights also. Budget plenty of time there … theres 15 to.20 taps.
Spartan aren’t that good beer wise … budget 10 minutes … grab one beer to tick the Brewery but spend the rest of the time you’d have budgeted at Spartan at Fourpure!
Yeah! Ticking attitude!! I like it.
Any recommendation about breakfast spot near The Bottleshop?
Look up Maltby Street Market.
It’s a food market the other side of the same railway arch 2 or 3 minutes away.
I’ve had lunchtime snacks there but never breakfast so no particular recs.
I always grab a Wetherspoon breakfast before a day in bermondsey.
Cheap, filling and beer to tick from 8 am!
Yeah. And maybe with a Jersey county tick for me according to their “Real Ale and Cider Festival” (10-21 Oct.) lineup “Among our SIBA award-winning festival ales are the golden Liberation IPA (4.8% ABV) from Liberation Brewery in the Channel Islands”
Just for information, it is still open & still selling London Fields beers but just the standard stuff as far as I can tell. We went a few weeks back, almost by accident when we were in the Hackney area with Kim Johansson. He mentioned a place called The Tap Room he’d like to have a look at. I thought it must be a new place and it wasn’t until we were very close that I twigged it was the old London Fields gaff. I then thought it might have changed into something else. It hadn’t.
I’m not even sure where the London Fields beers are produced these days.
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