Comments on: The beer geek God is listening

By: Pump creep | Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

Pump creep | Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:46:07 +0000

[...] owners of Cask, our current favourite London pub, have obviously decided to pull out all the stops on the beer front. They’ve just expanded [...]

By: Berliner Weisse in London, from Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

Berliner Weisse in London, from Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:34:41 +0000

[...] Cask, a nicely refurbished pub in Pimlico, London, continues to impress. This week, we noticed that their range of German bottled beers includes a Berliner weisse, which is a style we’ve been wanting to get our hands on for a while. [...]

By: Tyson

Tyson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:29:15 +0000

Hope to be trying this out on Saturday.

By: Girl About Town

Girl About Town — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:47:40 +0000

Wow, thank you for the tips. Spent a lovely Saturday afternoon last week with the girls and a fine tasting bottle of chilled rose. Atmosphere was relaxing and chilled. Landlord could do no more to please us. Looking forward to going back and next time will eat and bring some real ale drinkers to sample the assortment on offer. I am also rather partial to a Belgian fruit beer so may ask the landlord if this is maybe a possibility for the future. I love the world map on display and the fascination it attracts with the customers as they enter. I also have what can only be described as an eclectic taste in music which was more than satisfied! A much needed addition to a dull and less than exciting urban area on a Saturday evening.

By: Tandleman

Tandleman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:33:18 +0000

“It’s one of those things that old CAMRA weirdos have a bizarre objection to”

I rather like low lighting and agree for a pub to work well it can be a great feature if done well. Guess that’s me out of the CAMRA weirdo bracket then? Oh well. Maybe not.

By: The Gunmakers Arms

The Gunmakers Arms — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:45:38 +0000

Low lighting’s really important. It’s one of those things that old CAMRA weirdos have a bizarre objection to, however.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:27:55 +0000

Tom — thanks for the kind words!

Dave — really good to have our feelings on this place seconded — “could hardly have been more impressed” sums up our view nicely. I can’t quite put my finger on how they’ve achieved the balance of modernity and old-fashioned cosiness. Cushions? Low lighting? Anyway, it works.

By: Dave25

Dave25 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:12:40 +0000

Thanks for the tip! That’s off my current “beaten track” but I do know the area having worked near there a few years ago. On your recommendation I popped over there this lunchtime and could hardly have been more impressed. Nice, clean and modern without being in any way poncey, a very friendly landlord, and some great beers. I had a pint of Dark Star Hophead that was as good a drop of beer as I’ve had for ages; right up there with the Harvey’s I had recently at Jeff Bell’s gaff. This place really does deserve to do well if they carry on as they’ve started.

By: Reading Tom

Reading Tom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:49:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I shall have to drop in soon. I’ve been following your excellent blog for sometime now, not least because I suspect I work in the same area in London as many of your reports of after-work drinks reflect my own haunts like the excellent Speaker and the Jugged Hare and its always good to get some good local intelligence – and intellgence doesn’t come much better than news of a local source of Hophead !

Keep up the good work
Tom