1. noon – Lord Moon of the Mall
2. 1pm – Moon Under Water
3. 2pm – Montague Pyke
4. 3pm – Shakespeares Head
5. 3:30pm – Penderels Oak
6. 4pm – Knights Templar
7. 5pm – Sir John Oldcastle
8. 6pm – Green Man
9. 7pm – Crosse Keys
10. 8pm – Liberty Bounds
11. 9pm – Goodmans Yard
12. 10pm – Hamilton Hall

So if you’re late – be at any pub at the time specified and you’ll find us.

Please come along. It’ll be fun – and not too heavy.

There will be 10 to 12 pubs. The route is still under discussion but the definite start is Lord Moon of the Mall in Whitehall.  If you are coming, please say so.

We plan to have a nice, sensible, day on the ale, leaving the monopoly board to those who love lager.

See you soon

The interior is very standard with exposed wooden floorboards and there’s mostly only standing room. Being in the City, it gets packed on Thursday and Friday nights.

Having enjoyed quite a few bottled ales from the St. Peter’s brewery, I thought that we’d try their only pub – The Jerusalem Tavern. The building dates back to 1720, was a clock shop, and has been cleverly restored so that you wouldn’t know you were in 21st century if it wasn’t for the patrons. The ales they sell were in great condition – as you’d expect. We tried: Cream Stout, Ruby Red ale and the Organic Best Bitter. The cream stout was lovely but a definite one-pinter as it’s such full flavour, the Ruby red ale was my favourite. Prices were a bit high @ £3.10 per pint, but probably the going rate for the nicer pubs in Farringdon. 

We managed to get a table (as you can see from the picture), but the pub did get very busy outside at around 6pm to the point where it might put me off. I would highly recommend this pub for it’s ambience and the excellent rare ales on offer.

This my favourite pub for finding ales. They usually have 9 ales on (8 guests and Harvey’s) that they shift pretty quickly, so I’ve never had a bad pint in there either. If you head there for ales, you won’t be alone, there’s always someone in there taking notes and sampling a selection. The place gets bombed out in the summer evenings and because it’s right next to Borough Market, so my favourite time to go is Sunday afternoons. The interior is pretty average, although they have an impressive selection of pump clips.  There’s very little in the way of seating, but well worth putting up with for the fantastic beers they have on all the time. Sadly, if you find something you really like, you’ll probably never see it again in there.

Thankfully this isn’t really an Irish pub – as the name would imply. The Harp is definitely a great find for central London, it’s pretty quiet and has plenty of ales. They usually have Harvey’s Sussex Bitter (ABV: 4.0%) and several other guest beers. There’s also suicide door for you as you exit the gents toilets.

This was a surprise, and they had a couple of fantastic ales (Sharp’s Doom Bar (ABV: 4.0%) being the tastiest). It’s not your average looking pub, in fact the interior is relatively trendy and makes it seem like you are only going to be able to get generic euro-lagers. They actually had a really good selection of bottled beers, but the pumps were worth sticking to.