PubsandBeer
The Bear (Craft Beer Company)
| Beer (sort) | Average Score (sort) | No. Samples (sort) |
|---|---|---|
| Three Acre - Best Bitter |  | 1 |
| Three Acre - Extra Pale | Not Tried | 0 |
| Three Acre - Mighty Mosaic Pale Ale | Not Tried | 0 |
| Weekend Project - Talisker Bay - East India Porter | Not Tried | 0 |
Visits Details
17 Jan 2026 (Hogan Sampling)
6th stop of the outing: Postively buzzing for our early evening arrival and where my party of two others with me were reunited with many of our larger pack of real ale hunters on this outing's crusade and who were here enjoying the selection on! Busy at the bar with standing room only until a bar stool away from the bar area shortly became available for me to settle on. Efficient and friendly bar staff coping well. Very refreshing to see what was too big to be called a micropub thriving! Could easily have tried all the cask beers on but for too many already sampled earlier.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Acre - Best Bitter | 4.00 | | Superb head and lacing and lasting on this East Sussex-brewed amber-coloured best bitter from Uckfield.* A dry bitter first hug off it! A very malty bitterness bounding up. Not in the least sweet and so any discerning bear might wish to sup this ale with a marmalade sandwich to complement its ever so merest hint of caramel! A good hoppy note necessitating my taste buds' approval from its mix of all-English hops. A very dry malty bitterness growling with a lip-smacking quality ambling downwards, making it almost like a dry cider. Very moreish! *Three Acre set up in 2019 and from growing up in a garden shed and branching out onto a working farm. This Best Bitter was one of their first alongside their Farmhouse Ale and Session Pale and first supplied to their local, The Blackboys Inn. |
| Three Acre - Mighty Mosaic Pale Ale | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
| Three Acre - Extra Pale | 4.50 | Not Tried | |
| Weekend Project - Talisker Bay - East India Porter | 5.20 | Not Tried |
About The Bear
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The pub is found in Paddington, Central London, W2 1JA.
Named after a certain famous bear who arrived at the local railway station and was labelled as available for looking after, this craft beer-focussed pub was set up in 2011. Found at 29 Spring Street in Tyburnia, it also offers a selection of cask ales as on a visit in January 2026. Run by the Craft Beer Company, they claim to be the first pub company to focus on craft beer. Reasonably spacious and offer grub too, and if you are really lucky, they might run to making you a marmalade sandwich but this not put to the test!
We have visited this pub once, seen 4 different beers and tried 1 of them.
Postcode: W2 1JA