Stacey Ayeh, tenacious owner of Rock Leopard brewery, which is based in Thamesmead.
June, which includes information about both Thamesmead and Lord's. www.willhawkes.net/blog/june2025
07.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The exterior of the White Horse in Parsons Green. The beer selection here has gone downhill of late, sad times
May, featuring a sickly Sloaney Pony. www.willhawkes.net/blog/may2025
07.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Ceramic tiling at Ye Old Tiger's Head in Lee, SE London, featuring a tiger's head
And April. www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/10...
06.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An interior shot of the Blythe Hill Tavern in SE23, featuring happy customers, various mirrors and horse-racing memorabilia
You'll be delighted to hear that I've finally got around to putting some back copies of @londonbeercity.bsky.social on my website. Here's March: www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/ma...
06.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
An old Firkin advert on the wall at the Fox and Firkin in Lewisham, reading ‘Follow the Firkin Trail and see the breweries of yesteryear’
New @londonbeercity.bsky.social today, featuring:
- The London Brewers Alliance festival at Bird House
- what’s it like being a small brewery in London today?
- V interesting pub reopenings, eg Florist in E2
- The original Firkin pubs, 46 years on!
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12.09.2025 06:42 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
Front cover of today’s Telegraph Magazine, featuring a foaming pint of beer
Jodie Kidd’s intro, with my (slightly smaller 😂) effort below
A nice illustration accompanying the best in each county section. There’s a map of England with a selection of pubs picked out
One of the spreads, headed ‘legendary locals and historic haunts’
England’s 500 Best Pubs now exists in print form, courtesy of today’s Telegraph Magazine. It’s an edited version, chopped up into sections (best beer, most historic etc) and nicely illustrated.
23.08.2025 08:28 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A perfect pint of Surrey Hill's Shere Drop at the Trafalgar Ale House in Wimbledon. It has a beautiful thick collar of foam - and because a sparkler wasn't used, it tastes good all the way down
There is a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social this week, featuring:
- The Trafalgar Ale House & the threat to London's pubs
- London's Czech beer problem
- 40ft's inexorable rise
- Temple Brewhouse goes underground
- Other stuff 🤷♀️
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07.08.2025 08:12 — 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 7 📌 0
The 500 best pubs in England
Use our tool to find the perfect pub nearest to you
I've spent the past few months researching and writing (what I think is) the biggest pub guide ever published by a national newspaper (50,000 words!) - and today its been published! www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/best-...
04.07.2025 11:09 — 👍 83 🔁 19 💬 9 📌 8
Here’s a very European story. A London brewery, set up by Germans and Italians & making Franconian-style beer, is now selling lager back to the Germans - and everywhere else in Europe, too, if they get their way. How? Here’s how:
11.06.2025 08:58 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Brewers are fretting about tariffs on US hops - but after a few more years of Trump, will London drinkers want anything American?
12.04.2025 17:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A can of Heretic’s Make America Juicy Again
New @londonbeercity.bsky.social out today, featuring:
- Trump Juice: will Londoners lose their taste for American-style beer?
- Brew By Numbers & Brick in Yorkshire
- The licensing change that could revolutionise London pubs … & lots more
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12.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 2
Hackney Brewery is closing. They blame Waltham Forest council, who have made a CVA agreed 9 months ago ‘unworkable’. This follows the closure of their taproom three weeks ago
03.04.2025 13:08 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
A view through a doorway at the Blythe Hill Tavern in SE London, showing people sitting at tables and drinking Guinness
New @londonbeercity.bsky.social coming at the end of this week. Featuring
- the brewery that conquered London by stealth
- Beamish is back
- pub news in TW1, SE18, SW11 & E17
- the first night of a new regime at SE London’s best pub 😮
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12.03.2025 16:07 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 4
London Beer City newsletter — Will Hawkes
This month's edition is coming up a week on Friday, so why not sign up now to ensure you don't miss any of the fun? Amazingly, it's free 😮 www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...
05.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hope Stonegate don't radically change it, it's a wedge-shaped gem! Award-winning, listed, nationally important historic interior.
16.02.2025 19:12 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
People and a dog in the Blythe Hill Tavern
Decoration featuring golf, and a tv screen in the front room at the Blythe Hill Tavern
People watching football at the Blythe Hill Tavern
An exterior view of the Blythe Hill Tavern, looking in through the window
Con, landlord of the v popular Blythe Hill Tavern in SE London, is leaving at the end of the month after the best part of 40 years. It‘s a Stonegate pub, so there’s a risk it could change radically … which may explain why it was even more lively then normal this evening
16.02.2025 18:44 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
A pint of mild and a Kent cricket bobble hat (both mine)
¡There's a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social out tomorrow! Featuring:
- New pubs that want to be old pubs
- A v cool Victorian discovery
- The Oz-based pilot who visited 50+ London pubs
- Boozing in Bermondsey
- Closed breweries, open pubs
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13.02.2025 14:53 — 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 5
An advert for Port
A small notice featuring the name J Jones, wine and spirit merchant
Adverts for Brandy, Port and Gin
Visited Stoke Newington’s Coach and Horses today for this week’s @londonbeercity.bsky.social. It’s currently being refurbished - they’ve found these 19th-century booze adverts hidden behind the panelling
11.02.2025 15:29 — 👍 43 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 3
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