The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs & Bars

Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by Robert Gale in Books

The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars is an essential guide to the best pubs in the capital. Written by Des de Moor, the book features 250 different London pubs all of which were personally visited.

A Guide To Real Ale in London WC1 and WC2

Posted on 21. Nov, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

London has literally thousands of pubs. There are so many pubs that each successive book published about London pubs has no hope of covering them all. Each book can only cover the best that London has to offer. I’ve followed many of these books whilst ‘drinking my way’ around London but essentially they cover a [...]

CAMRA’s Great British Pubs

Posted on 12. Nov, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

CAMRA’s Great British Pubs is a new book by Adrian-Tierney Jones that features over 200 of the best pubs in the country.

One of the best pub books currently available it features a huge variety of pubs both old and new, rural and urban and all serving great beer.

The Oxford Companion to Beer

Posted on 17. Oct, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

The Oxford Companion to Beer features over 1,100 entries of practically everything you could ever want to know about beer, ingredients, the brewing process and more.

Edited by Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, this is quite easily the best beer encyclopedia ever written.

Licensed to Sell

Posted on 21. Aug, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

Licensed to Sell is a revised edition of English Heritage’s study of British public houses and is one of the most comprehensive guides to the history of pubs currently available.

The 200-page book is crammed full of black and white and colour photographs, pub plans, old advertisements and drawings.

London’s Best Pubs (2nd ed.)

Posted on 10. Jun, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

London’s Best Pubs is the definitive guide to the capital’s best pubs and features reviews and photographs of 117 different pubs.

This updated edition adds popular pubs such as the Southampton Arms in Kentish Town and the Euston Tap near Euston Station.

London by Pub

Posted on 23. Feb, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

Written by Ted Bruning, a former editor of CAMRA’s newspaper, What’s Brewing, London by Pub contains 15 historical walks around the capital. The aim of the book is to take readers on a tour of classic pubs whilst also visiting historical sights.

London’s Riverside Pubs

Posted on 17. Feb, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

London’s Riverside is a guide to 100 of the best pubs located on or near the river Thames, the canals and the Lea. The guide features pubs from as far west as Walton-on-Thames through the City of London to Greenwich in the East.

The Local

Posted on 28. Jan, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

Written in 1939 on the eve of the Second World war, The Local tours some of the pubs of London with Maurice Gorham as your guide and Edward Ardizzone as your illustrator. The book is split into 14 chapters covering the regulars, the barmaids, the different lounges and bars and the long forgotten aspects of [...]

The Inns of Wiltshire

Posted on 18. Jan, 2011 by Robert Gale in Books

The Inns of Wiltshire is a comprehensive and lavishly-illustrated survey of over 170 pubs in the Wilthsire area.