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title: "Bermondsey Beer Mile: Unofficial Introduction (Route Guide)"
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# Bermondsey Beer Mile: Unofficial Introduction (Route Guide)

The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction For those of you who don’t know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that’s closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they’re all open at roughly the same time on a Saturday afternoon, giving those of you who fancy some exercise the chance to indulge in a rather fine pub crawl. As long as you can find your way between all the bars, of course. And this is the problem: because the Mile is something that’s grown organically over a period of years, and there’s no definitive central resource you can consult in order to find out where all the bars are. New ones keep opening, and old ones change location. Virtually all of the documentation of the Mile on the internet consists of one-off blog posts that quickly go out of date. I should know, as I wrote one of those myself back in 2014 , and it’s full of mistakes now. (I’m Spank The Monkey, by the way: I’ve had an arts and entertainment review blog on the internet for over two decades. Most of the words you’re going to see on here are mine, with additional contributions and photography by my pal The Belated Birthday Girl. If you’re curious to see what the Mile looked like in olden days, here are some pictures The BBG took of it back in 2014 .) In the absence of any official site relating to the Mile, we decided to start an unofficial one. We’ll attempt to document all of the bars currently on the route, and how to get between them all: and whenever we hear about any changes we’ll update the site as soon as we can. (You can help with this – feel free to drop us notes in the comments boxes if you find that anything’s altered since we wrote about it. We’ve included links to the official sites of all the bars, which should hopefully have the most up-to-date information.) Here’s the route as it currently stands. (You could start at the other end and work in the opposite direction, but I’ll explain why we’re doing it this way round in the first post.) Links with distances in them will give you a map of how to get there: links with a bar name in bold will take you to a separate page with more details about it. Bars with an asterisk next to their name also brew beer on the same premises. It may be worth checking the Untappd pages of the bars before heading out there, just to check if people have been checking in today, and also what they’ve been drinking. Start at Maltby Street Market (not actually a bar, more of a pre-Mile breakfast location, though there are bars in the market too) [ website ] Walk 170m to Southwark Brewing* , 46 Druid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 3m to Kanpai Taproom & Kitchen* , 48 Druid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 160m to The Barrel Project , 80 Druid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 21m to Fabal Beerhall , 88 Druid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 58m to Billy Franks Craft Beer & Snack Shack , 104 Druid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 81m to Hiver , 56 Stanworth Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 150m to Anspach & Hobday , 118 Druid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 180m to It Ain’t Much If It Ain’t Dutch , 67-68 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 43m to Big Hug Social , 72 Enid Street – full review to follow [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 10m to Cloudwater , 73 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 10m to Against The Grain Cidery* , 76 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 65m to Bianca Road* , 82-84 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 19m to Craft Beer Junction , 86 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 13m to Enid Street Tavern , 87 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 25m to Mash Paddle Brewery* , 92 Enid Street [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 140m to The Kernel* , 132 Spa Road [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 1km to Battersea Brewery Substation* , 8 Almond Road [ website ] [ Untappd ] Walk 950m to Small Beer* , 70-72 Verney Road [ website ] [ Untappd ] In memoriam section: The Bottle Shop , 128 Druid Street – closed down March 2019 uBrew , 29-30 Old Jamaica Business Estate, 24 Old Jamaica Road – closed down September 2019 Affinity , 7 Almond Road – moved out July 2020 London Calling Sweden , 72 Enid Street – closed down Spring 2021 Hawkes Cider , 92/96 Druid Street – closed down January 2023, didn’t admit it till August 2023   Partizan , 34 Raymouth Road – moved out March 2023 Brew By Numbers , 75/79 Enid Street – moved out May 2023 Secret Goldmine , Arch 19 Old Jamaica Business Estate – closed down May 2023 Spartan , 8 Almond Road – closed down June 2023 Eebria , 15 Almond Road – closed down March 2024 Fourpure , 25 Bermondsey Trading Estate – closed down September 2024 The Outpost – Three Hills Brewing , 7 Almond Road – closed down May 2025 Moor Beer , 71 Enid Street – moved out March 2026 Gosnells , 72 Enid Street – moved out May 2026 News (14/07/2026) It’s been a bit quiet here since September 2025 and the whole drama of having to move the entire site to a new host. Still, the move appears to have been a success, and we don’t seem to have lost traffic as a result of it. Anyway, there’ve been a few changes in the past nine months, and we’ve updated the site to include them. Moor has moved out, to be replaced by music venue The Blue Monk, which we’re considering outside the remit of the Beer Mile. Gosnells has also moved out, and been replaced by Big Hug Social (who are probably a better fit for the Beer Mile, what with them brewing beer and all). We’ve done the best we can to get the latest version of the opening times for each bar, but obviously that sort of thing can change with very little notice. You’ll also see on this page that we now have an Untappd link for each bar, so you can find out what sort of beers are on offer, and if they’re actually open today or not. (Just trying to help you out here, Battersea Substation .) We’ve also updated a few of the photos and the odd bar report. Finally, the reason why we’ve chosen today to break our silence is because the site was launched on July 14th 2018, so it’s our eighth birthday today. Thanks for all your support over that time! Now, please drink responsibly. [ News Archive ] Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Like Loading… 64 responses to “The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction” James August 18, 2024 Do any of the bars show sport? Southwark Brewing Co have a TV from memory, but I’m not sure if any others do. Like Like Reply A October 8, 2025 craft Beer Junction Like Like Reply Miki September 12, 2024 HI, we just opened on 69 Enid Street SE16 3RA in between the dutch company and Moor Vaults! We are a pizza shop with a bar inside, we used to make pizza on the blue volkswagen van outside the arch, which is now transformed into a cocktail bar, plus we sell crafted beers! Why don’t you come and visit us? It would be a pleasure for us! (: Like Like Reply John Glennon November 27, 2024 Hats off to you Spank The Monkey and The Belated Birthday Girl – this is a brilliant site that captures the Bermondsey Beer Mile in it’s sand-shifting glory. Love the may you’ve made a step-by-step guide and a documented each stop so well and evocatively. Myself and a few friends are working on an app called Bar-Trek – it’s dedicated to keeping our pub scene alive and supported. It’s a web-app at the moment so nothing to install and it’s also free. I’ve created the crawl the Bermondsey Beer Mile that you’ve documented here so well as a crawl in Bar-Trek – here’s the link – https://www.bar-trek.com/crawl/461 As you’ll see, I’ve fully credited you two as the owners and creators and linked it back to this fine website. Take a look around the site – we should have most of the venues in in the UK. It’s a doddle to create your own crawl – just find a venue, click “Add to Crawl”, find the next venue and repeat. Once a crawl is created, you can save it, share it and edit it. Have a play and let me know what you think Like Like Reply Aaron March 14, 2025 Midpoint food is now at the other side of the arches. Cloudwater has food, Ong Ong Buns is a bakery – milk bread filled with char siu, custard, kimchi, sausage etc – and Kernal has a Japanese kitchen. Like Like Reply Tony Smith October 12, 2025 How many of the bars have ale rather than yellow beer. Like Like Reply Andrew January 9, 2026 From my experience You will defintately find cask ale in – Southwark (several), Ansbach & Hobday and Kernel (both usually 2 bitter or dark cask lines) I think I have seen the one pump in Cloudwarter too Like Like Reply Nick November 6, 2025 Do any of the bars still accept cash or are they all now cashless? Like Like Reply Nick November 7, 2025 (posting again as previous comment seems to have disappeared) – Do any of the bars on the mile still accept cash? Like Like Reply Matt H November 24, 2025 I did not use cash once, most just have the card terminal Like Like Reply RCS March 2, 2026 Any recommendations for bars that stock a few ciders along the way? Like Like Reply John Frederick March 12, 2026 German beer tastes better than British beer. Like Like Reply Fabio May 15, 2026 Hey hey, I highly recommend to go to The Last Talisman on Bermondsey Street after all the pints to get the bestest food and sober up (or not) a little! Went there the other day, it’s genuinely insane: classic pub food with asian twist, they also have a £30 per person 3 course set menu offer which is absolutely a bargain given London prices! They are also showing Fifa world cup this summer, which is just perfect. I’m not one to brag about places but I went there and I think it’ll be my new local favourite place. Like Like Reply Billy August 4, 2026 Hi, does anyone know what time the breweries typically shut? We are looking to go this Saturday in the evening but weren’t sure if many places would still be open. thanks Like Like Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Comment Name Email Website Δ Loading Comments... Write a Comment... Email (Required) Name (Required) Website Comment Reblog Subscribe Subscribed The Bermondsey Beer Mile Sign me up Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. The Bermondsey Beer Mile Copy shortlink View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Sign up Log in Report this content Collapse this bar %d