Small industrial unit on a fairly grim industrial estate producing some of the finest beers in the…read moresouth of England. Gary Hayward started brewing here in 2004 and has consistently produced great beers. His American style IPAs are probably the best outside of the States. He also produces milds, porters and bitters,some of which are available in bottle. http://www.redsquirrelbrewery.co.uk

We needed a beer after walking to the top of Tottenham Stadium with the Dare skywalk, and this…read moreplace was right across the street from the stadium. I can only imagine the amazing atmosphere here during a game. I ordered the Bones lager and hubby got Neck oil. We enjoyed both on their patio behind the building. Neck oil was on tap in many pubs we visited, so it's obviously a very popular beer in London. I like all the colorful art in the taproom and on their glasses as well!

I was introduced to Beavertown Neck Oil back in Feb 2019 while on a business trip. On my visit this…read moretime, I decided to pay the brewery a visit. Tried many of their flavors so I decided to stick with the neck oil session IPA. Also got me 10 for my suitcase. Nice spot and a nice day so lots of folks hanging out on the picnic tables. Excellent beer, nice production facility and a good time.

The Jolly Fisherman is set right on top of the River Lea in Stanstead Abbotts. It's a McMullen pub,…read moremeaning you get some of the best real ales that the local Brewery (based in Hertford) produce. That's in addition to a good selection of wines, an OK selection of Lagers and Bulmers or Strongbow for the cider fans. It's disappointing in a way that aside from the ales, there aren't more local or specialist drinks available to make this place a cut above the other two pubs in the village. It is a nice 'country' pub, with lots of exposed beams but not too many artefacts, so it doesn't feel like it is trying too hard to be a historical venue. Having said that, the recent refurbishments and change of ownership have seen it veer dangerously towards gastro-pub territory. Thankfully I think they saw the error of their ways, and the food menu is fairly refreshing now, with a mix of traditional dishes and more contemporary eating. These include locally produced Hertfordshire sausages and delicious organic baguettes with a choice of fillings. The ploughmans lunch has a suitably rural bent too. A large part of the pub is indeed set aside for a tabled, serviced restaurant area, along with several other tables that are not serviced. Don't go expecting comfortable sofas to lounge in, and there isn't that much standing area either, but it's rarely so busy that you won't be able to get a seat. There is no entertainment to speak of other than a quiz night (currently every other Monday night). There is also no TV, so no football here. The other pubs in the village (The Red Lion and The Lord Louis) cater for that side of things. Where this pub really comes into its own is in the summer. Situated right next to the village green, which itself is alongside the River Lea, you can sprawl out beyond the outer seating area and onto the grass. This is the perfect place to sit and watch the world go by with the sun beating down, reflecting off of the water in front of you. The long canal and house boats chug up and down the river, and with plenty of moorings directly next to the pub they do a roaring trade on a sunny weekend. You can wander down and feed the myriad of ducks, moorhens and swans with the kids, and relax in what is an idyllic English countryside atmosphere. It's easy to spend the whole day there, and annoying local teenage boys aside, the people are all friendly and chatty. Every year there is a village festival held on the green too, and the Jolly Fisherman plays its part by having a BBQ in their car park - this is not to be missed, with the same Hertfordshire sausages from their regular menu, and 100% ground beef burgers being cooked up with speed and quality. Other special events such as Christmas, Mothers Day etc. are marked with bookable meals, and are almost always sold out well in advance. The only criticism I can level at the Fisherman is the prices. It can be a little steep for some stuff, but you're not only paying for the products - it's the location and the atmosphere too. If you want to sit in a boozer, head to the Lord Louis. If you want a middle of the road pub with a TV, head to The Red Lion. However, if you want a family-friendly pub/restaurant then the Fisherman is worth the extra pennies. The staff are friendly and polite, the toilets very clean and well maintained, and the food is good quality. Add all that to the summer days out on the grass with a few cheeky G&Ts and you end up with the four stars I've given it. It would be a five if our summers were longer!

Everything is jolly but the food! After lovely a day out,…read morefour of us decided to have a pub supper and saw the Jolly Fisherman as we were passing through Stanstead Abbots. It looked idyllic being a hot sunny day and with the river location, it was just too wonderful to miss. The atmosphere was pleasant and everywhere looked clean, we also noticed quite a few group reservations, it was a good sign. Being early Saturday evening, the place was lively with mainly family groups and friends enjoying the garden area. We started off very well. The service was not bad considering it was busy. We loved the wine, the house red was particularly enjoyable, room temperature and silky smooth. The chardonnay was equally good, fruity and chilled. Unfortunatley, it all went downhill from there. Two of us ordered the Baked Enchiladas, the others had a chef's special Thai Prawn Curry. Our friend had a Beef Nachos sharers dish as a main. Frankly, it would have been good to see a main meal salad option, being a hot sunny day. The Enchiladas looked like they were cooked in a microwave - two small non descript rolls were dished on a small round plate. I didn't see any bubbling cheese on top, there was pockets of water and the bread itself was quite a soggy dough consistency. Definitely not baked. However, it tasted OK. A small garnish sized salad was placed on a hot plate and wilted and no dressing was provided. The Thai King Prawn curry had about 4 small prawns and no more than 4 tiny crackers. The Beef Nachos was mainly corn chips and little substance with the jalapenos being on the mushy side. The average cost of the main meals was just under £9 each. I have had better sized starters from other chain pub restaurants ie Harvester, Wetherspoons, Old English Inns. As we were all very hungry we ate up and left stating we were disappointed. If it was not for my elderly mother being in the group, we would have just got up and left. I think we were all better off buying the same food in a supermarket and just heating it up ourselves at a fraction of the cost mirroring the basic and plain presentation with no attention to detail. We went home still hungry. I would return again to the pub as it is in a good location, but definitely not for food. PS However, since writing I did make a complaint to McMullen pubs and to give them credit I had a very prompt reply. They have since provided a voucher with assurances that they willl look into the issues and resolve any bad practices. I look forward to returning again in the near future and will update my review

What a beautiful little microbrewery - only been open six months. Micro brews on the premises. The…read moreStar of Wonder is great. Cozy - like a Starbucks inside but better - and they serve beers!!!!! The parking here in the Wynn is a bargain at 20 pence (a quarter for my US buddies). Great staff, great locals, great beer Funny but when I grew up here there was NO way to buy beer or booze here because it was founded by Quakers in 1906 - and now they brew their own!! What a difference a half century makes (OMG I am getting old!)

Wow! Just wow! Amazing global street food! Great vintage shopping! Don't miss it! This Nuff said,read more

They made a Jim Carrey movie here. "The Trumans Show."…read more The old Truman Brewery has so much history as it used to be one of the great breweries of the UK. Now the space has been turned into a event center and part-time Market stall and that really works as well. So on every level this is really cool both for the history and the current use of the space.

I went to the "summer zone" just behind the brewery. Very nice place with live music, cool on a…read moresunny day. They have their beers (all around £5/£5.5 for pints and half-pints available for half the price) and also some guest beers. Friendly service. They brew very good beers, I really enjoyed both the Citrus Pale ale and the XPA but I didn't particularly like their Brown Ale. To sum up, a great way to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon in relax.

Every month, The Five Points Brewing Co host a brewery tour on a Saturday afternoon. For £12 (plus…read morebooking fee), Lasting two hours, guests sample five beers, take a tour of the brewery floor and are regaled with the history of the brewery. Everyone is given a Five Points chalice to take home and the opportunity to purchase more beer onsite. When I took the tour in May 2016, a row of banquet tables were set up in the heart of the brewery. In total, we were a group of 23 enthusiastic guests- only four of us had never been on a brewery tour before- and the majority were familiar with the Five Points' range. As we considered each beer in turn, we were provided with approximately half a glass each to swill. Questions were encouraged throughout the two hour tour and company representatives demonstrated exhaustive background knowledge of the company and beer in general. We were whisked around the brewery floor, invited to climb ladders and peer inside a kettle, then to stick our heads inside the mash tun. We became acquainted with the bottling line, a hand-me-down from Beavertown Brewery, which could fill up to 2,200 bottles per hour. The canning line can manage up to 3,600 cans per hour and we received an animated demonstration of how the cans slingshot through the machine. The brewery tour was an edifying insight into how another independent London brewery quickly outgrew its confines and made its mark as an institution proffering a seminal range of beers.

They closed their brewery in north Greenwich and did not update website. Took a one hour trip for…read morenothing.

I got brought a brewery tour as a gift, and had a great time here. I have done a lot of brewery…read moretours in America but this was my first in the U.K. We did a weekday tour starting 7pm. The place is in a bit of a random spot, I wasn't too keen on our walk there but we made it. We ordered a pint as we were early, their speciality Cake boy, a hazelnut beer I wasn't too keen on it and wished I haven't ordered a whole pint. Plus it was expensive £13 for two pints! It should be cheaper directly from the brewery. Also i definitely wouldn't have ordered a whole pint if I had known I was going to have to chug the thing as we weren't allowed to take drinks on the tour with us! This is very different from US brewery tours and they usually welcome drinking on the tours. However I understand why, as the tour starts out in their private tap room, where you drink and taste all their different beers on tap. I think we tried around 5-6 beers, we even got to still taste their stout even though they had ran out of it on draft. They actually opened bottles of it, to pour for us -- I was impressed and their stout was nice, it's different from others stouts as I'm not a stout drinker. The pours were a third of a pint each too. The tour in whole was 2 hours but didn't actually last that long. The tasting lasted around an hour -- this is something I haven't experienced at US breweries, where the staff go into soo much detail about each beer and taste them with you. Usually a brewery tour is only 20-30 minutes touring the facility. This tour was more like bourbon tours I have been on. The actual tap room we were in was full of Michael Jackson's (the beer critic) glass collection -- cool or what? After the tasting we finally toured the facility, which lasted around 20 minutes or so. The tasting was better than the tour, I could have skipped the tour, their was nothing special. As traditional with British health and safety laws, we were required to wear safety goggles on the tour, even though it was the evening and nothing was happening. One thing that did disappoint me, was you weren't able to keep a tasting glass after the tour, you had to buy one from the gift shop. Also as I'm not up to date on British craft beer, I was surprised to learn that Meantime sold out to SAB Miller a few years ago and then was later sold to a Japanese company. However though we enjoyed the tour overall (I think it was all the beer -- lol). We stayed after the tour finished, had another pint and actually ended up chatting to our tour guide for the evening. We had a great time.

Great brewery with outside and inside seating. Order your…read moredrinks at the bar, or with the table service. Taps were all great, as we tried probably half the menu. My favorite being the Hells. Seating is ample and great for larger groups- as ours was. Food- surprisingly amazing! I've been thinking about the Chard Ravioli with the butter since I ate it and contemplated ordering a second entre when we were there. Not pictured is the Beer Hall Platter- think giant cheese board. We got the Large and it was a good size for 6 people. Always love when burrata is available. The pretzels on the platter were also very tasty and came out warm- we could smell them baking before they were served. We will definitely be back, loved everything about this place.

Camden Town Brewery, London, England -- April 5…read more Our family of four with two kids ages 9 and 10 stopped into Camden Town Brewery for a quick break while bouncing between major sightseeing stops, just looking to reset before a dinner reservation, and the overall experience felt easy, local, and honestly better than expected. Arrival and First Impressions The space had a relaxed local brewery pub feel that stood out immediately from the more tourist areas we had been walking through, and it was easy to get in and find a spot without much effort which felt like a win in the middle of a packed day. The energy was casual and welcoming, and while it is definitely more of a pub brewery than a family focused stop, they were cool with the kids even if it is not built for them. The Highlights The beer selection was strong and exactly what you would expect from a well known London brewery, with a laid back atmosphere that made it really easy to settle in for a bit. The kids grabbed chips while we had drinks since we had dinner plans elsewhere, but the food we saw coming out looked solid and reasonably priced which made us second guess not staying. There is also something cool about being in a place with real roots, this brewery has been around since about 2010 and has grown into one of London's more recognizable beer spots which adds a bit of character to the stop. The Challenges It is not really designed as a full family destination and more of a quick stop type of place, so expectations should stay in that lane, and while they were accommodating enough with kids it is still very much an adult leaning environment. Final Thoughts This ended up being one of those stops we appreciated more after we left, especially since our later dinner did not quite live up and we found ourselves wishing we had just stayed here longer. It is a very cool spot with a strong local feel and a bit of history behind it, and while it is not a destination on its own it is absolutely worth it if you are nearby, especially for a casual drink and reset with solid value.

Awesome London Beer Factory taproom with also an on-site smaller brewery!…read more They have both beers brewed on-site and the main beers brewed at the main brewery. The beers brewed here are mostly sophisticated either barrel aged or using particular yeast, etc., very interesting. I had a Saison Refermented on Chardonnay Grapes which was really good with a deep flavor. It goes without saying that the experimental brews are quite expensive but you can also get a pint of the more regular ones at a good price. The place itself is really cool and service is good and friendly.

Excellent spot with plenty of seating inside. I liked the rustic and practical aesthetic. There is…read morea separate food counter to the drinks. Bartender is chill. When I came there was a diverse range of people inside, from younger groups to business types to senior citizens. If you like good craft beer, this place seems to be for everyone.