Deviant & Dandy at Beavertown

Byron Knight founded Beavertown Brewery in Duke’s Brew & Que (RIP) having previously done a bit of home brewing and now after a hiatus running restaurants he is back with Deviant & Dandy brewery. His plan for Beavertown was to have a number of US-inspired barbecue restaurants – in the template of Dukes – that…

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Mayor of Haringey opens Bohem brewery extension

The Mayor of Haringey was among guests gathered recently at the official opening of London’s only Czech-style brewery Bohem that has just been massively expanded. The expansion has increased brewing capacity seven-fold and the Mayor celebrated its ability to now serve more of its Czech-style beers to a wider audience at a packed event held…

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Mayor of Haringey to officially open the brewery expansion at Bohem

Bohem – Traditional Bohemian lagers, brewed by Czech expats, in London. Bohem Brewery is proud to announce that The Worshipful The Mayor of Haringey will be officially re-launching the brewery on 12 October 2017 at its Tap-room at 120A Myddleton Road, N22 8NQ. It has just successfully completed a major upgrade at the brewery on…

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A little bit of Bohemia in North London

When he found the price of beer increasingly too expensive and believed the quality to be deteriorating the answer for one North Londoner was to start brewing his own. Although living in the north of the capital Petr Skocek is actually a native of Pilsen in the Czech Republic so he is steeped in beer…

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New Vintage Ale House pushes beer boundaries in Balham

It seems that hardly a day goes by when I don’t either visit or hear about a bar, pub, bottle shop or even a cafe that has a beer selection that I would have travelled the length of the country to visit five years ago. The reality is that today we are inundated with quality…

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Derek Prentice – not a common brewer at Wimbledon

Wimbledon Brewery is fortunate in not only having a committed owner, who has had the necessary resources to create something of substance, but to also have the services of Derek Prentice. As London continues its brewing renaissance through an explosion of new craft breweries setting up shop Prentice is one of the few people who…

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Hammerton Brewery nailing it in North London

Brewing seemed like a good idea when boredom set in with the office job for Lee Hammerton in 2012 and it looks like he made a decent decision as the beers coming out of his brewery in North London are of a consistently high quality. At the time he reckoned Islington, despite its high number…

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Argos blenders killed in Strawberry Hells Forever production

Friday afternoon at Camden Town Brewery in North London looked like the scene of a serious crime. The strawberries picked earlier in the week for the second annual batch of Strawberry Hells Forever were splattered on many surfaces and on numerous people’s clothing. It was also an actual crime scene – certainly for the basic…

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Around Town with Amateur Drinker

For beer nerds (and let’s face it, I wouldn’t bother writing this if I wasn’t one) the quality of a tap selection is what makes an occasion. However, for most people, and even for us anoraks seeking variety as the quality of the normal line-up in London bars goes ever upwards, it is good to…

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Beavertown growing up while still mixing it up

There’s an underlying theme at Beavertown brewery in North London – a keen appetite to mix things up. This includes lots of cross fertilisation of ideas through collaboration with other brewers, hosting massively successful events that bring the beer community together, and more recently a mixing of cultures in its fledgling barrel-ageing programme. This thinking…

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