The Long Pond (Free House)
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Stephen Harris
Visits Details
17 Jun 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 11pm close.
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 |  | |
Mad Cat - Platinum Blonde (previously Meaney's Platinum Blonde Ale) | 4.20 |  | Too light coloured for me but good condition |
Wantsum - Black Prince | 3.90 | Not Tried | |
Ripple Steam - Farmhouse Pale Ale | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
Vale - Red Kite | 4.30 | Not Tried | |
Shiny - Strong Pail | 5.00 | Not Tried | |
08 Jun 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until 10pm close.
Mad Cat - Educated Guess | 4.70 |  | New branding, a new beer, deep ruby red |
Silver Brewhouse (formerly Raw) - JR Best Bitter | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
Shiny - Pail NZ | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
Vale - Black Beauty Porter | 4.40 | Not Tried | |
Old Dairy (being contract brewed after it closed) - Summer Top | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
03 May 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Late afternoon visit after Eltham based chores.
Hop Fuzz - English | 4.00 |  | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 |  | |
Hop Fuzz - Old American Pale | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
Kent - Simcoe | 4.50 | Not Tried | |
Ramsbury - Same Again | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
Pig & Porter - Slow Black Stout | 5.10 | Not Tried | |
01 Apr 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Late afternoon visit after Eltham based chores. Other beers details lost in this website's server crash.
Tonbridge - Old Chestnut | 4.40 |  | A new Tonbridge brew |
Colchester - Old Mortality | 4.30 |  | |
02 Mar 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Late afternoon visit after Eltham chores. Pleasantly quiet and chatty.
Kent - KGB or Kent Golding Bitter | 4.10 |  | Superb, no need to move on to any other beer here |
Wantsum - 1381 | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
Pig & Porter - Disgraceful Behaviour | 6.00 | Not Tried | |
Hop Fuzz - Bullion Bomb | 5.00 | Not Tried | |
Twisted - Urban Legend | 4.30 | Not Tried | |
27 Feb 2016 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening quickie between an Eltham station / B16 bus interchange.
Kent - Brewers Reserve | 5.00 |  | |
Old Dairy (being contract brewed after it closed) - Red Top | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
Pig & Porter - Disgraceful Behaviour | 6.00 | Not Tried | |
Hop Fuzz - Bullion Bomb | 5.00 | Not Tried | |
Tonbridge - Golden Rule (was 3.5%) | 3.20 | Not Tried | A new Tonbridge brew |
16 Dec 2015 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening. Unplanned visit resulting from a 132 bus not arriving! Heard the piano from outside and then found a packed house singing Christmas Carols and, after a break, Christmas themed songs. Superb community feel.
Wantsum - Thunderbolt | 6.80 |  | Allegedly an American IPA. Slow drinking |
Bexley - Crook Log Winter Ale | 5.20 |  | |
Wantsum - Turbulent Priest | 4.40 | Not Tried | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
Wantsum - Dynamo | 4.30 | Not Tried | |
Pig & Porter - Thief of Time | 4.80 | Not Tried | |
07 Nov 2015 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening until close. Friendly house. Good chat with Guv about Micropubs. Larger than usual cask ale range with a mini SE London festival wooing the Eltham Arts Winter Festival events taking place.
Cronx - Standard | 3.80 |  | Best Cronx I have ever had |
Canopy - Ruskin Wheat Beer | 5.20 |  | |
Brockley - Pale Ale | 4.10 | Not Tried | |
Cronx - Nektar | 4.50 | Not Tried | |
Hop Stuff - Renegade IPA | 5.60 | Not Tried | |
Hop Stuff - A.P.A. (Arsenal Pale Ale) | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 | Not Tried | Tonbridge Traditional by any other name |
Southwark - Potters' Fields Porter | 4.00 | Not Tried | |
11 Aug 2015 (Philip Pirrip)
Late afternoon. Bus was going by.
Ripple Steam - Original Best Bitter | 4.10 |  | |
Rat - Bohemian Ratsody | 4.30 |  | |
Bexley - Black Prince Porter | 4.60 |  | |
Nottingham - Supreme | 5.20 |  | Disappointing. Hazy and lacking the usual Nottingham crispness |
RCH - Double Header | 5.30 | Not Tried | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
04 Feb 2015 (Philip Pirrip)
Late afternoon after chores in Eltham. Steady flow of arrivals.
Caveman (latterly a cuckoo at Leatherbritches) - Evolution #5 | 4.20 |  | Best of the visit yet this was last one out of the cask and Guv was reluctant to hand it over |
Caveman (latterly a cuckoo at Leatherbritches) - Neanderthal (superseded by 4.4% version) | 4.60 |  | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 |  | |
House Beer - Pond Life | 3.60 |  | Not so good as earlier |
Wantsum - Hengist | 5.00 | Not Tried | |
Wantsum - Black Prince | 3.90 | Not Tried | |
Caveman (latterly a cuckoo at Leatherbritches) - Palaeolithic | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
Mad Cat - Special Relationship Anglo-American Pale Ale | 4.80 | Not Tried | Came on to replace the Caveman Evolution #5
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