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THE 15 BEST London Wedding Hotels

editor — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:58:26 +0000

London now offers weddings. Pick-me packages range from an early morning blessing and canapés in the rooftop Radio Bar to a wedding breakfast in New York-chic steak restaurant STK and a bells-and-whistles reception in the ME Room and Studios. Start married life with a night of romance in the glass dome duplex penthouse ME suite where you’ll find flickering candles in the bathroom and rose petals strewn on the bed. melondonhotel.com LIME WOOD HOTEL Hampshire A gorgeous New Forest hideaway, Lime Wood blossoms with purple wisteria in spring. There’s no set menu at the Hartnett Holder & Co restaurant; instead,

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Visit To Some Wetherspoon Pubs For Some Of The Best Real Ales

editor — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:48:00 +0000

JD Wetherspoon is a chain of around 1,000 pubs across the UK and Ireland. They’re famous for selling some of the cheapest drinks in town, they serve big portions of cheap food, they don’t play music, and they don’t always have the best atmospheres (that’s a euphemism for saying they are a bit crap). However, they do reliably sell a lot of real ale and it’s often well kept—in fact, nearly 300 Wetherspoon pubs are in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide and twice a year they hold huge real ale festivals, inviting world brewers to collaborate on one-off beers. A big

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The Bermondsey Beer Mile They Should Rename It Beermondsey

editor — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 22:56:00 +0000

Just south of the River Thames, and running parallel to it, is a long succession of elevated train tracks leading in and out of London Bridge station. In the arches beneath these railway lines you’ll find a section running right through Bermondsey, which has become London’s most brewery-populous area. It’s a unique London thing for so many breweries to operate from railway arches—there must be at least 15—but these locations offer relatively cheap rent, have a decent height, and maintain a consistently cool temperature, which means they work well as brewing spaces. In Bermondsey, if you plot the breweries on

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Visit To The Blue Anchor, Helston Not Quite Britain’s Longest-Running Brewpub

editor — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:04:00 +0000

In the 15th century, Cornwall’s Blue Anchor Inn was a rest house for monks and it soon after become a beer-brewing tavern. It has that great British tradition of being a brewing ale house, something you would find across the country hundreds of years ago, and is certainly one of Britain’s oldest still-serving pubs. Although there’s no evidence to support 600 years of continuous brewing, we can say beer has been made there since before the turn of the 20th century. Regardless of the specifics, beer has been central to The Blue Anchor for its entirity and it’s one of

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British Traditions And New World Accents

editor — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:12:00 +0000

Cask ale is tied to many great traditions and traditional beer styles, but the way in which it can enhance subtle flavors, develop wonderful soft aromas, and kick with a deep hop flavor and bitterness means that it translates perfectly into new beer styles—and perhaps the only new British beer style created in the past decade is the “pale and hoppy session beer.” Light-colored, well-hopped sessionable ales have existed for many years, but the difference here is the use of New World hops, primarily from America, Australia, and New Zealand. The citrusy, fruity aromas from those hops can be enhanced

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Visit To Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight The Hop Garden Of England

editor — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:28:00 +0000

Between the 1920s and 1960s, at the end of the summer, thousands of East End Londoners, mostly women and children, would travel to Kent’s hop fields to pick the annual harvest. It was a vacation of sorts—hard labor in the late-summer sun to earn a bit of extra money. Hops have been grown in Kent—known as The Garden of England —since the 16th century. The county has always accounted for significant amounts of England’s annual hop acreage, with farmers such as Mr Golding and Mr Fuggle giving their names to new hop varieties. Since reaching a peak in 1878, the

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Top London Craft Beer Spots to Visit

editor — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:36:00 +0000

The Kings Arms in Bethnal Green (11A Buckfast Street, E2 6EY; www.thekingsarmspub.com) is a quiet, unassuming corner boozer, but when you get inside you’ll see one of London’s best-selected beer lists. I like it because it’s a proper pub (not a bar) and it always has extraordinary beers. They have some superb sister pubs, including The Axe in Stoke Newington (18 Northwold Road, N16 7HR; www.theaxepub.com), which does a good roast dinner. The Harp in Covent Garden (47 Chandos Place, WC2N 4HS; www.harpcoventgarden.com) has become a go-to pub for some of the best-kept cask ales in the city. Harvey’s Best

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The Best Historic Pubs In London And Drink Where Many Great People Have Drunk Before You

editor — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 23:44:00 +0000

For centuries, pubs have been meeting places and social spaces, somewhere to eat and drink, to find solace for an hour or friendship for an evening. London has many pubs with hundreds of years of history, more than anywhere else in the world, with notorious alumni, endless untold stories, and amazing interiors, making stepping inside feel like a trip in a time machine to stand at the bar beside ghosts of drinkers past. These are some of the best pubs that have retained their olde-worlde charms. The Prospect of Whitby, which celebrates its 500th birthday in 2020. It’s impossible not

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Follow The Gamma Rays To Beavertown From Barbecue Brewpub To One Of Britain’s Best Brewers

editor — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:52:00 +0000

Beavertown Brewery is the star brewing attraction in London and started in the basement of a barbecue restaurant in Haggerston before growing into one of the world’s most exciting brewers, with a rock-star appeal and an arms-open outlook that have made them many friends in the beer world. Their beers keep on getting better as well. The Lowdown WHAT: Beavertown Brewery HOW: www.beavertownbrewery.co.uk WHERE: Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road, London N17 9QP Beavertown’s Neck Oil, Gamma Ray, and Lupuloid sit as London’s front-line hoppy brews. Neck Oil is a bright and light Session IPA that’s always excellent and lushly

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Visit To Sarah Hughes’ Dark Ruby Mild Classic Dark Ale Made In An Old Tower Brewery-Pub

editor — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Visit To Sarah Hughes’ Dark Ruby Mild Classic Dark Ale Made In An Old Tower Brewery-Pub The Sarah Hughes Brewery, in the Beacon Hotel, is a classic old brewery-pub in the West Midlands, and it’s a rare and wonderful place to visit for many reasons. The Beacon Hotel (which isn’t a hotel, by the way) was built in around 1851 and acquired its first landlord in 1852. A brewery was added sometime after, possibly in the 1860s, but the most significant parts of this story took place in 1920 and 1921. That’s when the pub’s Victorian interior, which still remains

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