What a gem of a book! Thank you to Pollard & McGinn for putting this together. You can order your copy here on Books About Beer website.

The premise is simple enough – a guide to 80 pubs in London with 80 recommended beers to try at each pub when you visit. The selection of pubs and bars and restaurants (even a bookstore) is diverse. One might call it eclectic but as someone who has been drinking beer in London for over a decade this is a great mix.

The volume is thin and will fit in your jacket pocket and is 95 pages long. For each pub you get the address, transport info, photos(s), URL and a recommended beer to drink. All the pubs of course serve other brews and additional beers are also highlighted. There are maps at the front.

The book includes well known ‘beer’ pubs such as the Rake (Borough Market) and the White Horse (in Parsons Green), but also less well know places such as The Cove (in Covent Garden – great on a sunny day!) and Project Orange (in Clapham – one we are going to seek out soon).

We recommend this book to anyone interested in visiting London pubs and is a great one for both residents and tourists (and beer geeks). It has inspired the BeerViking crew to venture out to some new venues and to even consider trying to tick off all 80 drinking establishments (and beers) over time.