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Arch House (formerly Anspach & Hobday Brewery Tap Room) (Brewery Tap)
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| Beer (sort) | Average Score (sort) | No. Samples (sort) |
|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - Sea Salt & Chilli Stout |  | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Experimental Imperial After Dinner Stout |  | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Red Wine B.A. Porter | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Three Threads | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The IPA | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Coconut White Stout | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Smoked Brown | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Story Saison | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Pale (Multi-hop) | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Galaxy Saison Chardonnay | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Rauchbier | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Experimental Double IPA | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The India Red | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Session IPA | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Helles Lager |  | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Summer Pale | | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Roggenbier |  | 1 |
| Anspach & Hobday - Bavarian IPA | | 1 |
Stephen Harris
Visits Details
10 Mar 2017 (Stephen Harris)
A job to squeeze in here, with a couple of big groups present.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The Three Threads | 6.00 | | From cask. Dark brown in colour. A very mellow Porter with toasty flavours. |
| Anspach & Hobday - Story Saison | 5.00 | | The brewery’s third anniversary special beer, from key-keg. Really good – I thought I was tasting pineapple. |
10 Feb 2017 (Stephen Harris)
A&H installed a handpump on the bar for a recent CAMRA Branch Meeting held here, and have decided to keep it. It was dispensing a very special beer tonight.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - Sea Salt & Chilli Stout | 7.40 | | From cask. Black and creamy and in fantastic condition. The chilli burn is immediate. The saltiness takes longer to find but is then obvious. |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Experimental Imperial After Dinner Stout | 10.40 | | From key-keg. An enormous Stout. |
06 Jan 2017 (Stephen Harris)
Quite crowded in here; I had forgotten how small the Taproom is here. Five A&H beers to choose from on key-keg, plus some bottles too I think.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The Experimental Double IPA | 8.50 | | From key-keg. Apparently the ‘experimental’ bit is that each brew will have a different cocktail of hops, as the brewery seeks perfection. This is a cloudy golden colour. A serious, strong, hop-bomb. Perfection is near I think. |
03 Jun 2016 (Stephen Harris)
It is not a long walk along the Bermondsey Beer Mile from the Bottle Shop to here, my next stop.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The Summer Pale | 3.90 | | A pale, cloudy, gold colour. Fragrant hop smells. Very, very bitter. |
01 Apr 2016 (Stephen Harris)
Bar very busy for a birthday party.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - Coconut White Stout | 8.00 | | On key-keg dispense. Completely crackers beer, but very tasty indeed. An opaque gold colour. Thick chocolate and coconut tastes. |
18 Mar 2016 (Stephen Harris)
Always a pleasure to visit this brewery taproom, and Friday evening is the quiet session around here, free of the hordes of pub-crawlers that walk the Bermondsey Beer Mile on a Saturday. Seven or eight beers available on key-keg dispense.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The Session IPA | 4.80 | | Amber-coloured. An excellent, fruity-hoppy mouthful. |
| Anspach & Hobday - Red Wine B.A. Porter | 6.00 | | A complex, dark beer. Red wine and woody flavours dominate, with the taste of the Porter itself coming through further down the glass. Fresh and almost acidic – would benefit perhaps from even more aging. |
17 Jul 2015 (Stephen Harris)
Brewery bar now opening on Friday evenings as well as on Saturday and Sunday. I noticed some pretty stern signs have appeared on the wall of the flats across the road “Residents SAY NO to Druid Street Market’ and ‘No Drinks on this Side of the Road’. A wide range of A&H beers available on key-keg or from bottle.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The Galaxy Saison Chardonnay | 5.50 | | A&H’s first barrel-aged beer, from a key-keg. It’s a really good blend of complex flavours – Top hops galaxy, sourness and spice from a Saison yeast, dry, woody and winey bits too. |
| Anspach & Hobday - The India Red | 7.20 | | Another really excellent beer from key-keg. A smooth, sweetish, malty base. Excellent hop flavours from Galaxy, Nelson Sauvin and Simcoe. Near ‘exceptional’ flavour in fact. |
22 Nov 2014 (Stephen Harris)
Lunchtime visit to the brewery, where there is a rare cask beer on sale alongside numerous kegs and bottles. Quite busy.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The Smoked Brown | 6.00 | | A beautiful, smoky, fruity, dark brown beer. |
04 Oct 2014 (Stephen Harris)
There is an Oktoberfest theme to this week’s opening here – all lederhosen, blue & white checks and special beers. We try a few of the one-off beers, including by each ordering a three beer tasting tray. Some are distinctly better than others.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - Rauchbier | 6.00 | | On ‘keg’ dispense. I liked this a lot. A dark beer that is quite subtly smoky and redolent of weekend trips to Bamberg in days past. |
| Anspach & Hobday - Helles Lager | 4.30 | | On ‘keg’ dispense. Has a bit more carbonation than two of the others, but still a bit lifeless. Nicely-hopped lager. |
| Anspach & Hobday - Roggenbier | 6.00 | | On ‘keg’ dispense. Rye flavours seem good, but unfortunately the beer is completely flat and lifeless. |
| Anspach & Hobday - Bavarian IPA | 6.70 | | On ‘keg’ dispense. Potentially a really interesting beer – a cloudy, golden, slightly sweet, hoppy lager. But again suffering from very flat condition. |
07 Sep 2014 (Stephen Harris)
The brewery bar is now opening on Sunday afternoons (as well as Saturdays). Perhaps word hasn’t got around yet as there were only a couple of other customers here at around 1pm – I’m visiting after a strenuous morning spotting tall ships on the Thames. The bar has been moved around since my last visit, and today there were five different keg A&H beers to choose from, plus several bottled Bullfinch Brewery and A&H bottles in the fridge.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anspach & Hobday - The IPA | 6.00 | | On keg dispense. Recommended to me by Jack Hobday behind the bar, and on really good, hoppy, form. |
| Anspach & Hobday - The Pale (Multi-hop) | 4.40 | | On keg dispense. A variation on the usual Pale recipe, with five different hops in the mix, and Sorachi Ace pretty prominent in the taste I thought. Orange/gold in colour and unfiltered. |
About the Arch House (formerly Anspach & Hobday Brewery Tap Room)
Summary of Beer Scores
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The pub is found in Bermondsey, Central London, SE1 2HH.
One of the line of railway arch brewers in Bermondsey in Druid Street. Anspach & Hobday initially trial-brewed on the nearby Brew Wharf plant, before launching their own brewery here in January 2014. At the beginning, they shared their small premises with Bullfinch Brewery, the latter subsequently setting up on their own at Herne Hill. The brewing kit was to the rear of the arch, with a bar area and beer garden-style trestle tables at the front. Part of a busy Saturday market area based around Druid Street. After relocation of brewing operations elsewhere it is now an enlarged pub space. 2 handpumps and a row of keg wall taps.
We have visited this pub 23 times, seen 38 different beers and tried 37 of them.
Postcode: SE1 2HH