booze

Where to get your ale this month.

Cruisin’ for a boozin’

The fine Clerkenwell pub gets even more beery than usual.

Eight local breweries set up a dedicated bar at CAMRA North London’s festival, 9-11 March.

The Sir Richard Steele, the Wenlock and the Faltering Fullback at Finsbury Park make appearances in this month’s top ten.

The Battle of the Bar Birds currently raging in Shoreditch involves less hair pulling and stiletto slinging than you might first expect. The birds, for one, are of the feathered variety rather than potty-mouthed fishwives, with Rivington Street’s Carroll-inspired Jubjub wrangling in the pecking order …

This morning brought the news that Boris Johnson is lobbying the government for stronger powers to deal with London’s unusually large contingent of drunks. The plan, borrowed from South Dakota, would see anyone convicted of an alcohol-related offence tested for blood alcohol twice a day, …

Photography by Chris Osburn Is Tuesday the new Thursday? That seems to be what the folks behind The Tasting Sessions want us to believe. Londonist is just back from the latest instalment of these boozy mingle fests. This one, choco-infused thanks to chocolatier Damian Allsop. …

Photography by Chris Osburn From its very first Narnia-esque moment of entering the rundown MC Motors frontage on a grubby Dalston side street to once inside being transported to an edgily buzzed playground of sensory delights, Saturday night’s Towards a Fluid State food and drink …

A drunkard’s dream if we ever did breathe one, jelly-mongering scientists Bompas & Parr got Londonist all tipsy and wobbly-kneed last night with their “walk-in cloud of breathable gin and tonic cocktail.” A walk-in cloud of huh and who? Yeah, check this crazy shit out: …