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This list makes interesting reading and the 2013 number is still increasing.
Some good stuff happening there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
I make that 47 breweries and I have had a beer from 45 of them. I need Barnet but will have to visit the Brewpub.I also need Brockley so this wed night may try to find them around Crystal Palace area.
Bloody* hell!Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
There are loads I've never seen, but I'm happy to wait until I happen to stumble across them.
I passed the Barnet pub on a bus a week or two ago but I think it was too early for it to be open.
*Pardon My French
A meager 14 for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
Feel like doing the quiz thing and say "name them". Off to GBBF today, but won't have time unless something near Olympia. Must plan a good day down in the smoke soon. Did a good crawl round Hackney last year but so much is changing there these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
I'm on 15 (excluding the first two and Wild Card), which considering I live here is nothing to shout about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mobyduck
25 for me , and most of the missing ones are from the last two years...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
Since the opening of the Redemption brewery in Tottenham in 2010 that took a lot of us by surprise, it definitely feels like being in at ground zero for the explosion of brewing in London since the dark day when Youngs buggered off up to Bedford..
The Black Horse in Barnet is just north of my manor so feel free to PM me when you are going and if I'm around I'll join you for a pint. The Palamino is quite a nice pint although I think this is still brewed for them by XT rather than in the in-house plant.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
I have sampled beer from 18 of those breweries.Looking at the list of new breweries about start up and the 47 listed above,dare I whisper it that us Londoners will soon be enjoying an ale scene not too far dissimilar to that enjoyed by the good folk of Yorkshire. (Symbol: Tin hat on )
If t'em beers ain't good enough for t'pubs up Buggersforth an' Crappingdale way then they damn well as ain't good enough for me neither!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard
I might take you up on that offer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gann
I have had palomino but brewed at XT.Also had a few of the not in production brewers
Wild Card brewed at Brentwood
Trumans(everards)
ansbach and hobday(Brewharf)
Lost Brewing(Florence)
3 friends(howling hops)
but I don't count them till they brew on their own plant.
I think Signature brewery is a bit dubious on the main list.
Just noticed they have missed Mulligans Brewery at the White Hart. who opened about a month ago. So that's 46 from 48.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
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Originally Posted by Mobyduck
I'm not doing to bad then for an out of townie.:cheers: but must do better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
47! bah there's more than that in the West Riding alone, good try but no cigar, Oh and one other thing what is the Champion Beer of Britain which was announced today?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard
:D (close as I can get to "smug bastard")
I was thinking along those lines when I originally read BF's post!Quote:
Originally Posted by oldboots
We do have more breweries than any city in the World.Smug sort of. But not one of our breweries had a beer in the final lists at GBBF.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldboots
By typing that, you've allowed me to show remarkable restraint.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldboots
Not wishing to inflame a&h but maybe London wins out on brewery concentration.
Greater London is 609 square miles and has 47 brewers = 1 per 12.96 square miles
I dont recall Yorkshire's 6,066 square miles having 468 brewers just yet.;)
It's going that way, the latest figure I have is 146 breweries; but shall we try that comparison based on per head of population?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard
Population of London (mid 2012 est) 8,308,400 = 1 brewery to 176,774 people
Population of Yorkshire (mid 2012 est) 5,316,700 = 1 brewery to 36,416 people
looks like London needs to get up to 229 breweries to match Yorkshire
:whistle:
I am impressed that my deliberate baiting of Northerners was unsuccessful :D
The reason is they are so stupid up there that they don't realise they are being baited. :evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Quinno
Someone once told me that they still paint their faces blue in parts of Yorkshire, wherever that is.
Having re-read this post I feel I must apologise for it. It was meant to be funny but looking back it wasn't, it seems just rude. The woad joke was probably used by Bernard Manning about Southerners over thirty years ago!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
If anyone wants some woad-I'm your man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
Can tick another one off.
Having a look round the Queen Elizabeth park by the Olympic park and stumbled upon the Crate Brewery on the way to Hackney Wick station.
Currently sitting by the canal with a pint of their best