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Craft Beer

James said:
Queens Head is best for craft within walking distance of KGX. I really like King Charles I for an old school boozer with good cask.

Bloomsbury there's not a great deal in terms of craft. Craft Beer Co down there is good.

Angel itself and Upper Street are dominated by chain stuff but there's plenty good places off the side streets. Down the bottom end the Wenlock Arms and the Earl of Essex are great. The Three Johns is okay as well. Further up you've got the Compton Arms which is also very good, and the Pocket pretty much opposite.

If you keep going up to Highbury Corner there's Hammerton brewery's bar and also The Lamb. I wouldn't really recommend any other pub in that stretch as they're mostly generic and overpriced. I have tried virtually all of them over the years...
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Wonderful intel. Thank you
 

The new brown ale on cask in BHV is absolutely beautiful. Settled down in the corner and forced several down. £3.50 a pop, happy days.
 
Longy said:
You’re not into your fruity adjuncts normally are you?
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Depends if it's overloaded. If done right they can be superb. Only other orange stout I'd had before Vaux was Black Sheep, which was tremendous. Some probably think its going to be like necking a Terry's Chocolate Orange.

Fair few of Brew Yorks are too OTT/sickly sweet these days.

Still got one of the big bottles of Impy Raspberry Stout from Brinkburn, 10.4%. Another absolute delight.
 
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Augustus Winthrop said:
I expect you are right but a bit steep for me.

I got 4 for 3 on Vocation smash & grab 440ml can 8% double ipa instead, good drop it is as well.
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If I have an imperial I will tend to just have that and maybe another for the night, so view it almost like two big glasses of wine.

You can usually pay around 7 quid a third for an imperial stout that's 11+% in a pub. But then tbf people are paying a 5er for a Madri so....

Vocation have always been decent. Haven't bothered with them for a while now can wise but was at their place in HB earlier in the year.
 
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