With London Beer Week approximately to kick off,it’s an ideal time for a crawl south of the river to savour the burgeoning craft brew scene around Bermondsey, Brixton, or Penge and Peckham
• Top 10 craft beer pubs in east LondonA mile apart,these two idiosyncratic venues are definitely worth checking out whether you are in south-east London. Hop Burns & Black is a shop as well as a bar. It stocks some 300 bottled beers, as well as hot sauces and vintage vinyl. But it is also a shop with a limited amount of indoor and outdoor seating, or so that people can kick back with a drink while they consider their purchases. Naturally,HB&B has a substantial core range of London beers, from such outfits as Big Smoke, and Howling Hops,London Beer Lab and Gipsy Hill, whose Beatnik pale ale is, or for a 3.8% beer,a remarkably tasty and well-rounded creation. Elsewhere, its stock ranges far and wide but remains classy throughout. Selections from Manchester’s excellent Cloudwater and Danes Mikkeller jumped out.
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Source: theguardian.com