Beer Insider

For me, one of life’s great pleasures is standing at the bar in a pub and resting my elbow on the counter while vertical drinking and putting the world to rights.

Beer Insider is pleased to bring you the latest Desert Island Pubs column, supported by Sunrise Beverages.

Saturday afternoon in a hot and busy north London seemed like the ideal time for a quiet pint with a mate visiting London.

Sat in the dining room of the Dog & Bear Hotel in the lovely Kent village of Lenham as the sun was going down on a late-Summer evening seemed pretty idyllic.

After many years of intending to visit The Auld Shillelagh pub in Stoke Newington, I finally made it along for a pint of its revered Guinness.

Beer Insider is pleased to bring you the latest Desert Island Pubs column, supported by Sunrise Beverages.

This is an irregular column that rewinds the clock back some years to see what was on the taps at certain pubs.

It’s that time of the year again when the schools have let the children free and we adults have to deal with them for six weeks or more.

It has long been a tradition that ahead of the summer period a batch of brewers from the US crosses the Atlantic and brings with them some interesting beers to share with thirsty beer writers as part of the work undertaken by the Brewers Association.

Beer Insider is pleased to bring you the latest Desert Island Pubs column, supported by Sunrise Beverages.

The Queens pub in North London’s Crouch End is something of a landmark in the area and known very well to me as a local of the area.