Archive for August, 2009
St Peter’s Bottles Changing?
Aug 21st, 2009 |
St Peters bottles at the Jerusalem Tavern, Farringdon
This picture was taken on a recent trip to the Jerusalem Tavern in Farringdon, London. Apologies for the poor quality – it was taken on my rubbish mobile.
For those who are not familiar with this pub, it is the only London outlet of the St Peter’s Brewery in Suffolk. It’s worth a visit if you like good beer and you’re in the area. The St Peter’s beers are very distinctive in their flavour tasting unlike beers from any other brewery. They usually have 4 or 5 on draught at any one time and most of the rest of the range are available in bottles.
I happened to notice these two bottles on the table on front of me (they weren’t mine) and was intrigued by the one on the left. If you’ve bought St Peter’s beers in the supermarket before you’ll be familiar with the elliptical shape of the base. It doesn’t come over so well in the picture but the left hand one has a circular base. I wonder if this is the new shape? It’s definitely got the St Peter’s badge moulded into the glass so they’re not brought in temporarily from somewhere else.
It would be a shame if the elliptical bottles disappeared.
St James’s Park Crawl – The Others
Aug 18th, 2009 |
I’ve already posted about the excellent Speaker near St James’s Park tube station. But it wasn’t the only pub we visited that night…
The Adam & Eve
We were meeting at the Adam & Eve which is a T & J Bernard pub right by St James’s Park tube station.
St James’s Park Crawl – The Others: Read the full post »
Aldgate Lunchtime Options No2 – The Dispensary
Aug 17th, 2009 |
Number 2 in an occasional series of pubs I can visit at lunchtime. It follows on from my first ever post which concerned the Pride of Spitalfields.
Dispensary, Aldgate
The Dispensary is situated on the junction of Leman Street and Alie Street – just down the road from Aldgate East tube station. There used to be 3 pubs on this crossroads a few years ago. The Old Monk has now become a ‘gentlemans club’ and the Black Horse which reinvented itself as Bar Bed recently became a crime scene.
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The Speaker in Westminster
Aug 13th, 2009 |
The Speaker in Westminster
On Wednesday evening Jon and I had a bit of a crawl around pubs close to St James’s Park tube station. It’s not an area that either of us were familiar with but it yielded a superb pub that we shall definitely be returning too soon.
The Speaker is in Great Peter Street – away from the bustle of Victoria Street. You know when you’ve found a good pub when there are crowds of people standing outside on the pavement even when it’s raining – think of the Market Porter in Borough Market. Getting to the bar was a bit of a struggle because of the number of people inside.
The Speaker in Westminster: Read the full post »
An Evening in Winchester (Part 4)
Aug 12th, 2009 |
This post carries on from a previous one describing a recent real ale pub crawl round Winchester.
An Evening in Winchester (Part 4): Read the full post »
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