Originally Posted by
Pubsignman
I did this crawl (albeit in a different order and minus the Corner Pin & Redemption Tap) on a match day three or four months before lockdown. Only two pubs were exceptionally busy - the High Cross, which is tiny, and the Antwerp Arms which I visited straight after the match had finished. Otherwise, it was surprisingly easy to get a seat and I'd say the crawl would be doable on a matchday if you visited the ones closer to the stadium whilst the match was in progress. If you don't go on a matchday, you will have to skip the Redemption Tap which, as TM points out, only opens when there is a game on.
I thought it was a pretty good crawl, all the more so when you consider what a desert this area was for good beer not all that long ago. You do need to be prepared to drink a lot of keg beer on a lot of different industrial estates though, which I got a bit fed up with towards the end of the day. Another possible inclusion for the crawl would be the One Mile End Bar & Brewery, which is very close to the Redemption Tap, although it's unclear if they have yet to reopen following lockdown.