Beer about town: London

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Message Leighton P beers 33714 º places 1204 º 13:48 Thu 4/25/2013 Hi team. Just a few updates on London and beer. (Feel free to chime in with your own insights as you see fit.) Looks like the Lovibonds Sour Grapes is on sale at the Earl of Essex for £15 a bottle. Pretty good deal, really. Also, tried one of the Kernel barrel aged London Sours tonight. It should go on sale in the coming weeks. Fill your boots when you can. Finally, apparently Rocky Head had a few new beers out, including an attempt at Belgian sour...
Message Beersiveknown P beers 5380 º places 180 º 14:26 Thu 4/25/2013 I repeat my plee for a sour grapes trade!
Message jackl beers 8677 º places 740 º 14:28 Thu 4/25/2013 I like the idea of a London beer spotting thread. I think we touched on a lot of great points in a thread a few months back about how rough it is to be a beer fan in London these days. Maybe this will help ease some of the stress. I try to keep an eye out for London beer news and feel like I still miss loads of cool tappings etc.
Message EdKing beers 3662 º places 307 º 14:39 Thu 4/25/2013 Yep, see my post further down. There was Cantillon Cuvee Saint-Gilloise on keg at the Euston Tap today. I only happened to see it on the tap list at about 5. Hurried over there but alas it was all gone. Would be good to have eyes out there for this kind of stuff.

Message Theydon_Bois P admin beers 40501 º places 1239 º 14:44 Thu 4/25/2013 I saw Doom Bar cask today in a London pub. Can’t remember which pub - sorry team !!!
Message Leighton P beers 33714 º places 1204 º 16:06 Thu 4/25/2013 Yeah, NYC routinely has the ’beer about town’ thread and I like the idea. If it suits folks, let’s try to keep the thread going until it gets frozen (at which point we start another).
Message harrisoni P beers 25356 º places 68 º 00:10 Fri 4/26/2013 Sourced Market at St Pancras has these beers http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/point-uk-ipa/203130/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/point-uk-black-ale/203137/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/point-uk-belgian-white/203133/ plus the amber lager and the pale ale also has these beers: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brewers-union-beast-of-the-deep/180396/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brewers-union-unfiltered-lager/123183/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/collective-sao-gabriel-berne/123219/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/collective-sao-gabriel-versus-goliath/149692/ plus the dark lager and Steph Weisse
Message EdKing beers 3662 º places 307 º 03:18 Fri 4/26/2013 I’d like to see more bars do daily online/blog tap lists, like USA and Japan. Euston Tap do it and Holborn Whippet. It would get me in a lot more bars if I could see what was on before I went down.

Message deeblo places 74 º 03:26 Fri 4/26/2013 Originally posted by EdKing I’d like to see more bars do daily online/blog tap lists, like USA and Japan. Euston Tap do it and Holborn Whippet. It would get me in a lot more bars if I could see what was on before I went down. Couldn’t agree more. Full daily tap lists would be amazing but even just tweeting when a new beer goes on would be a huge improvement.
Message jackl beers 8677 º places 740 º 03:34 Fri 4/26/2013 Originally posted by deeblo Originally posted by EdKing I’d like to see more bars do daily online/blog tap lists, like USA and Japan. Euston Tap do it and Holborn Whippet. It would get me in a lot more bars if I could see what was on before I went down. Couldn’t agree more. Full daily tap lists would be amazing but even just tweeting when a new beer goes on would be a huge improvement. +1. Love that the Euston Tap posts their tap list daily. If the Craft family wanted to take all of my money (instead of merely most of it), all they’d need to do is tweet their tap lists. On another note, anyone know about a new pub opening in Soho next week called The Lyric? Seems to be a sister pub of the North Pole. https://twitter.com/Lyricsoho It’ll be great to have another stop when I head over to the Old Coffee House.
Message Leighton P beers 33714 º places 1204 º 03:38 Fri 4/26/2013 I gather there’s a new Draft House on Goodge Street.