Muted Horn is currently the top rated bar in Berlin with an impressive rating of 99 on Ratebeer. On that basis a trip out to Neukölln was definitely required. Originally part of […]
Muted Horn, Neukölln, Berlin
David Bowie and Schwarzes Cafe, Kantstrasse, Berlin
I had this notion to find David Bowie’s Berlin, but the mere existence of Fritz Music Tours, seriously, and others, sort of put me off. I don’t like organised things, preferring to […]
Lemke am Alex, Berlin
Brauhaus Lemke style theirselves as Berlin’s first craft brewer, I’m not going to argue with that. They’ve currently got three premises in Berlin; Brauhaus Lemke am Hackeschen Mark is the original brewery […]
Bierbar Alkopole, Alexanderplatz Bahnhof, Berlin
Bierbar Alkopole ran out and out as my favourite bar in Berlin. The nearest thing I found to an English pub. Was it real Berlin? Or was it a gimmicky tourist trap […]
Kaschk, Berlin
If you search online for craft beer bars in Berlin Kaschk is a frequent product. It’s typical of the norm, a sort of Brewdog cum modern British brewery tap room style of […]
BraufactuM Berlin
Dad, I fink I got it wrong again? Despite seeking the real Berlin, I appear to have gone into another bar that’s not strictly Berlin. BraufactuM, although looking altogether the trendy Berlin […]
Hofbraü Wirtshaus, Berlin
It seemed a bit strange starting off a beery tour of Berlin in a traditional Munich based brewers tavern, conveniently the Hofbraü Wirsthaus was only two blocks away from where I was […]
North Riding Brewery are on the move
By the time you read this North Riding Brewery of East Ayton, near Scarborough, will have become North Riding Brewery of Snainton as the brewery relocates to new premises. A five mile […]
All I want for Christmas is my local back.
Often we tend not to sympathise with others until we’ve been involved in a similar situation ourselves. Well it’s happened to me, my local has shut and won’t be open anytime soon. […]
The Bloxwich Showman!
Pat Collins (1859 – 1943), formed the Van Dwellers and Showman’s Protection Society in 1889, it’s still going strong today as the Showmens Guild. He moved to Bloxwich in 1915 from Cheshire, […]
