"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Yep craft keg is now the dominant beer style in London.I embrace it but try to stick to the cheaper end of the market.Still plenty of new beers around but you have to search them out.Was in twickenham ,Hampton and Brentford last night.Saw about 45 cask beers 15 new to me and about 50 craft keg beers.Central London has definitely become less interesting on the cask front but if you are changing £5+ you need to stick to beers most people recognise and will pay the.price.Hence landlord and doom on a lot of pumps.
...which allows pubs to flog the stuff for nearly £7.00 a pint when cask at quality outlets, Wenlock, Express, Cock, Southampton etc. can easily cost £2.50 less. London doesn't seem to have any true micros apart from the Little Green Dragon. All the hipster railway arch, nuclear bunker conversions and the like are all keg...Even the House of Hammerton, despite being the tap for the nearby brewery seems to have pumps just for decoration; their fantastic Penton oatmeal stout is knackered on their keg, yet far superior on cask at pubs, if you can find it.
Depends I suppose on what you call London, yet another list here. But whatever along with the Green Dragon the Dodo is well up there.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Was in Barnet last week and intended to go to the Little Green Dragon but ran out of time.shame as there are few pubs worth visiting in that area.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields