Comments on: Geeky bubble, overpriced beer

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:31:26 +0000

Make sure your servants “Ask if it’s Cask”.

By: John Clarke

John Clarke — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:16:45 +0000

Dream on.

By: johng

johng — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:22:12 +0000

craft beer to me is keg and cask.In london 5 years ago there were about 5 pubs with interesting beer it was a nightmare so yes we started from a low base but have came on in leaps and bounds.Check out Des De Moor,s excellent list of London pubs most of them serving my definition of craft beer.i

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:56:47 +0000

Actually what I find interesting is that a lot of the successful ‘craft’ places *aren’t* necessarily in obviously promising locations. Cask, for example, might be closeish to Victoria, but in a way that Victoria commuters are going to chance across. The Brewdog in Camden is also in a back street, with fairly low footfall, in a premises which had apparently failed in past bar incarnations.

So these places are attracting people more as ‘destination pubs’ rather than as part of hub areas (for the most part)

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:13:55 +0000

“Now ONLY 10% of pubs in the capital are concentrating on selling “craft”. Plus, since Pitfield left, there all the London micor-breweries have shut. Nothing to see here or celebrate, certainly”

Sorry James – I genuinely don’t understand what you’re getting at here. Could you elucidate?

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:09:50 +0000

No – the overwhelming majority of so-called craft bars in London sell a good range of cask beer too, from mainly new small breweries.

By: py0

py0 — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:02:27 +0000

Why must people insist on sneering at everything good? The renewed public interest in decent beer is just getting started and already people are saying “oh, it’ll never catch on” as if they actively want us all to be drinking crappy macrolager for the next 30 years as well.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:28:36 +0000

Almost every area, not every person!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:23:05 +0000

Who cleans their houses?

By: Bailey

Bailey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:16:38 +0000

I mean, wasn’t there a point when only London hipsters with trendy jerkins and really curly shoes were drinking hopped beer while most people stuck to ale..?