Your author has largely shunned the 'craft beer revolution' on the basis that he has always drunk ale and there is a danger with fashionable things that they may go out of fashion again, but in a time of closing pubs, flickering screens and blaring music it's hard to fault the London Beer Dispensary in Crofton Park, a beautifully-put-together place so keen to dispense with peripheral distractions that it has removed its bar, and just offers good beer in aesthetically-pleasing surroundings.
The bar is the work of the Late Knights Brewery in Penge, which despite its questionable
website produces good beer, and clearly knows how to put a nice bar together. The food (served daily 12noon-3pm and 5pm-10pm) was also good, and the staff were so friendly and polite it was difficult to believe it was all true. It only leaves one question...is the London Beer Dispensary a pub? Yes, of course it is.
For more, see
http://www.lateknightsbrewery.co.uk/bars.html
^Picture © London Beer Dispensary - Late Knights Brewery^
Your reference says that Brighton Beer Dispensary was opened this April. I am very pleased because so many pubs, some loved and some neglected, seemed to have closed in the last few years.
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