The Broken Drum (Free House)
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01 Nov 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close. Very interesting conversation with a former owner of the Tower Bridge Brewery, the successor to Simon's Tower Bridge Brewery which filled in some gaps in my historical knowledge of that concern.
| Goacher's - Best Dark Ale (aka Original) | 4.10 |  | In lovely nick |
| Bank Top - Flat Cap | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
| Southwark - Gold | 5.20 | Not Tried | |
25 Oct 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close.
| Southwark - Courage SE1 Green Hop Amber Ale (presumably a collaboration with Charles Wells) | 4.40 | | I normally eschew these silly re-use of dead brewery names' concoctions but this one was actually excellent. Clearly it was not a reinvention of a former Courage beer |
| Ripple Steam - Original Best Bitter | 4.10 |  | OK no more |
| Ripple Steam - Farmhouse Pale Ale | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
17 Oct 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close.
| Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - Green Black | 4.10 | | |
| Dartford Wobbler (re-named from Millis) - Peddler's Best | 4.00 | | An OK beer, no more than that |
| Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - The Knight's Ale | 4.60 | Not Tried | |
09 Oct 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close although as I arrived the lights were being switched off and the Guv kindly re-illuminated and put up with my custom.
| Musket - Flash in the Pan (Kentish Green-Hopped Ale) | 4.00 | | Top form and delicious nick |
| Goacher's - Real Mild Ale | 3.40 | Not Tried | |
| Dartford Wobbler (re-named from Millis) - Dartford Wobbler | 4.30 | Not Tried | |
05 Oct 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close plus a lot, local CAMRA branch chairman was in after all!
| Mad Cat - Timber Batts Green Hop Ale | 3.90 | | First rate, apparently using wild hops from around the Timber Batts pub in Kent. An intensely raw bitterness |
| Bexley - Hukins' Challenger Kent Green Hop Pale | 4.30 | | |
| Goacher's - Real Mild Ale | 3.40 | Not Tried | |
25 Sep 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close.
| Blue Monkey - 99 Red Baboons | 4.20 |  | |
| Wild Beer Co. - Bibble | 4.20 | | Unfined and seemed exceedingly too fresh to me with carbonation bubbles all over the inside of the glass |
| Ilkley - Mary Jane | 3.50 | Not Tried | |
20 Sep 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close.
| Goacher's - Silver Star | 4.20 | | |
| Twickenham (also uses sub-brand Old Hands) - Grandstand Bitter | 3.80 | | |
| Twickenham (also uses sub-brand Old Hands) - Autumn Red | 4.40 | Not Tried | |
13 Sep 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close. Quiet.
| Old Dairy (being contract brewed after it closed) - Red Top | 3.80 | | |
| Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Good Evening | 3.40 | | Can't recall having Goody's dark mild before |
| Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Good Heavens | 4.10 | Not Tried | |
06 Sep 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close.
| Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Good Life | 3.90 | | |
| Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Genesis | 3.50 | | |
| Thornbridge / Thornbridge Hall - Wild Swan (was 3.5%) | 3.40 | Not Tried | |
30 Aug 2017 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening 9.10pm shutters down, lights off, no sign of life. Maybe in respect to Terry Pratchett's hard drive, steamrollered earlier today??
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