There are two new breweries that have just opened in Kent; The Romney Marsh Brewery and Brew-Buddies who are based in Swanley. We will be stocking beers from both of these in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile Old Dairy Summer Top is back on tonight in the fully air conditioned Long Pond; one of the best summer beers around, light and refreshing.
There are two new breweries that have just opened in Kent; The Romney Marsh Brewery and Brew-Buddies who are based in Swanley. We will be stocking beers from both of these in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile Old Dairy Summer Top is back on tonight in the fully air conditioned Long Pond; one of the best summer beers around, light and refreshing.
I enjoyed Romney Marsh Amber Ale at the Cinque Port Arms in New Romney last week, and the very refreshing Old Dairy Summer Top at the Swan in Wittersham. Good choices, Riviera.
Really like Old Dairy. Wish it was sold more widely in London.
Same. Used to buy bottles of it from the local offy, but not shopped there for a year or two after they did me out of a fiver.
Anyone know a shop what sells it in Beckenham/Bromley?
Well I don't know for sure but I'd be surprised if the Bitter End on Masons Hill didn't stock bottles of Old Dairy beers, but maybe that's the offie that short changed you? Slightly further afield the Food Hall at Ruxley Garden Centre certainly do as do Lamborbey Wines in Sidcup. Also my mate Barry often has Old Dairy beers on tap at One in the Wood in Petts Wood just like we do.
Congrats, Riviera. I like the Duddas Tun Disco cider you serve from cask. For the amateurs, 'Disco' has nothing to do with our fathers bopping in brown velour pants to Paper Lace. It's from Discovery apples, pure and true and gorgeous.
And potent. My Old Man - my father - was born and brought up in Tottenham in the 1920s: much later he showed me the deft touches of Gilzean to Greaves, how two strikers move and feint, how they slice the Liverpool defence and score. This is my fiftieth season of watching Charlton home and away.
Martin Robinson and Mike Flanagan came from Spurs. They are absolutely superb players, neglected and derided by you lot on the Forum. After the Welling game next Saturday, let us all convene in Riviera's pub - to toast, with Duddas Tun Disco cider - Joe Piggott and Igor Vetokele.
Am a lager drinker, don't really like real ales but had a chilled bottle of Doom Bar other day and it was palatable. Any others I should try , preferably that you can chill (as more of a home drinker at moment with two under four years old) as a halfway house between lager and the ales?
Try Hillside Craft Lager from Hillside Brewery in Gloucestershire. I declare an interest as I am their (part time) Master Brewer & Beer Sommelier. Its a lager, but it is bottle conditioned, and quite hoppy, so almost a cross between a lager and an ale.
FYI Hops are incredibly fussy about where they grow. They need exactly the right soil, climate, rainfall. I happen to have grown up in the one place in all of New Zealand where they can be grown. Motueka or to be more precise Riwaka. Although the distance between the two areas is only 4 or 5 km it is the difference between hops being able to grow or not grow. Thought that was pretty interesting. Every time i sup a New Zealand beer it is pleasing to think it is made with hops from down the road from where i grew up
Here's a selection of beers I used to enjoy but are sadly no more:
Fremlins Tusker and Bitter Brickwood Pompey Royal Wethereds Bitter Theakston Best Bitter Truman's Tap Gales Prize Old Ale Young's Special (battersea) Flowers Original Gibbs Mew Bishops Tipple Charington IPA Ind Coope Burton Ale
Most were available throughout London.
I did my pupillage at Wethereds, so mashed some Wethereds Bitter in the early 1980s, and my first proper job as a young brewer was at Fremlins, so have brewed both Tusker and Fremlins Bitter. English Ale (in bottles only) was a nice drop too. Now a Tescos unfortunately, but at least Sheps are still going strong on th eother side of the High Street
After the Welling game we visited The Broken Drum at the southern end of Westwood Lane in Blackfen. This is a splendid little micropub in a former shop in an unprepossessing parade amid relentless suburbia. I have grown rather tired of what seems to be a common furnishing of micropubs: uncomfortably high chairs and hard surfaces - so The Broken Drum provides a welcome change with normal-height tables in a light and airy room and a carpet to muffle any noise.
Usually three ales are served from casks in the cool room at the back; on now are Canterbury Reeve's, RCH Pitchfork and Rudgate Mythicale. I enjoyed Gibbet Oak cider and perry from a farm just outside Tenterden: tasty and potent, and served at precisely the right temperature. The guvnor is most affable, and showed us his books on local history. My pal and I happily spent several hours here chatting to a few locals; highly recommended.
Beer from the new Romney Marsh brewery being delivered tomorrow to our micropub which incidentally has both uncomfortably high chairs and hard surfacess andnormal-height tables with soft seated chairs.
Some of you may have already heard this, but we (Deserter) have brewed our own beer, with Late Knights Brewery in Penge. It's a lively IPA with an American hop twist. 5.5%.
At the moment it's only available in Late Knights' bars but it will soon be in The Long Pond and the Pelton Arms, so I hope some of you get the chance to try it. It's gone down very well so far and they've already scheduled brewing another big batch of it this week.
Some of you may have already heard this, but we (Deserter) have brewed our own beer, with Late Knights Brewery in Penge. It's a lively IPA with an American hop twist. 5.5%.
At the moment it's only available in Late Knights' bars but it will soon be in The Long Pond and the Pelton Arms, so I hope some of you get the chance to try it. It's gone down very well so far and they've already scheduled brewing another big batch of it this week.
Some of you may have already heard this, but we (Deserter) have brewed our own beer, with Late Knights Brewery in Penge. It's a lively IPA with an American hop twist. 5.5%.
At the moment it's only available in Late Knights' bars but it will soon be in The Long Pond and the Pelton Arms, so I hope some of you get the chance to try it. It's gone down very well so far and they've already scheduled brewing another big batch of it this week.
It's the Welling Beer Festival this weekend at the Guy Earl of Warwick, which is next door to the Welling FC ground. If you go tonight you will see me performing live on stage, not with either of my regular bands, but as a guest of Shadey Scandals.
All good ale. After Dulwich Hamlet last Saturday we crossed Peckham Wry to Nunhead Green, eschewed the eponymous Head, the Pyrotechnic's Arms, and the Man of Kent - and copped The Beer Shop.
It's a convivial micropub in a former corner shop. Two cask ales: American-style high-gravity IPA, both of which displeased Bill, who is Larkin's Traditional or nothing. There are three boxes of cider on the counter: "Which do you recommend?".
The young barman comes from the orchards of Bishop's Tawton, a village near Barnstaple in north Devon; decades earlier I was schooled at Dartington, to the south. He recommended the Malvern Magic, for its purity of Kingston Black. This man knows his apples. Absolutely delicious.
Then to the Ivy House. This is a pub famous for being closed for ages and re-opened by the locals: they bought it and hold shares. It's in the no-man's-land between Brockley, New Cross and Honor Oak Park - and yet was buzzing with a wedding celebration, all mixed in with nervous gentrifiers and the local punters.
In the early 1970s this pub was called the Newlands Tavern and was a landmark venue on the pub-rock circuit. We investigated the back room: oak-panelled, and the stage still splendid - and with framed posters on the walls: Kilburn & The High Roads, Dr Feelgood, Bees Make Honey, Ace, Savoy Brown, Graham Parker and the Rumour...
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Honestly, why write something like that, especially on a thread about beer.?
Meanwhile Old Dairy Summer Top is back on tonight in the fully air conditioned Long Pond; one of the best summer beers around, light and refreshing.
Anyone know a shop what sells it in Beckenham/Bromley?
Slightly further afield the Food Hall at Ruxley Garden Centre certainly do as do Lamborbey Wines in Sidcup. Also my mate Barry often has Old Dairy beers on tap at One in the Wood in Petts Wood just like we do.
And potent. My Old Man - my father - was born and brought up in Tottenham in the 1920s: much later he showed me the deft touches of Gilzean to Greaves, how two strikers move and feint, how they slice the Liverpool defence and score. This is my fiftieth season of watching Charlton home and away.
Martin Robinson and Mike Flanagan came from Spurs. They are absolutely superb players, neglected and derided by you lot on the Forum. After the Welling game next Saturday, let us all convene in Riviera's pub - to toast, with Duddas Tun Disco cider - Joe Piggott and Igor Vetokele.
Usually three ales are served from casks in the cool room at the back; on now are Canterbury Reeve's, RCH Pitchfork and Rudgate Mythicale. I enjoyed Gibbet Oak cider and perry from a farm just outside Tenterden: tasty and potent, and served at precisely the right temperature. The guvnor is most affable, and showed us his books on local history. My pal and I happily spent several hours here chatting to a few locals; highly recommended.
At the moment it's only available in Late Knights' bars but it will soon be in The Long Pond and the Pelton Arms, so I hope some of you get the chance to try it. It's gone down very well so far and they've already scheduled brewing another big batch of it this week.
Cheers!
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In case any of you can make it it is the weekend of the Kent Beer Festival which is always superb!
And @Riviera - I heard good reports from the Long Pond.
It's a convivial micropub in a former corner shop. Two cask ales: American-style high-gravity IPA, both of which displeased Bill, who is Larkin's Traditional or nothing. There are three boxes of cider on the counter: "Which do you recommend?".
The young barman comes from the orchards of Bishop's Tawton, a village near Barnstaple in north Devon; decades earlier I was schooled at Dartington, to the south. He recommended the Malvern Magic, for its purity of Kingston Black. This man knows his apples. Absolutely delicious.
Then to the Ivy House. This is a pub famous for being closed for ages and re-opened by the locals: they bought it and hold shares. It's in the no-man's-land between Brockley, New Cross and Honor Oak Park - and yet was buzzing with a wedding celebration, all mixed in with nervous gentrifiers and the local punters.
In the early 1970s this pub was called the Newlands Tavern and was a landmark venue on the pub-rock circuit. We investigated the back room: oak-panelled, and the stage still splendid - and with framed posters on the walls: Kilburn & The High Roads, Dr Feelgood, Bees Make Honey, Ace, Savoy Brown, Graham Parker and the Rumour...