Craft Metropolis Online Craft Beer Blog

The craft beer scene in London is always tossing up beery fun, and here at Craft Metropolis we’re always keen to get involved wherever possible. It’s the nature of the craft beer industry, along with passion, which we happen to have in bucket loads. That’s why when Andy Thorburn, host of the recently launched Craftwork […]

40FT doesn’t look like a normal brewery, and I don’t mean the brewery itself. True, that in itself is odd even by London craft beer standards but “40ft”? It’s just two letters and numbers. They don’t even have a website. OK, that’s an exaggeration they do have a website but it’s made up of two […]

Craft beer which is also often referred to as boutique beers are becoming more popular daily because people are beginning to get sick and tired of the taste and quality of the commercial beer which the major beer breweries in the world keep producing.  Craft beer clubs like us want to help with this mission. […]

Craft beer clubs are all the rage today – you’ll find craft beer served everywhere from your local brewpub to some hairdressers and even the White House. This popularity has allowed a development of an incredibly diverse range of brands and styles. You will find a rich experience in the world of craft beer, but […]

The world of beer is clearly divided. Real ale or craft beer the lines are blurred and both craft beer and real ale has a history of being advisory towards each other. It’s got to the point where most people know where they sit in terms of their preference but what both groups will admit […]

Craft Beer has always prided itself on being a fight against mass-produced breweries that have traded quality for quantity. However as craft beer has gained popularity, once independent micro-breweries are growing into international multi-million pound businesses. Brands like BrewDog are now setting their sights on reaching the same heights as the very brewers they once […]

We love the London Brewers Market so much last time we decided to go one further a month later and make a box of craft beer designer around it! If you missed it we had an absolute blast back in April when we took a stroll around the beautiful setting that is Greenwich market as […]

Joining craft beer clubs and experiencing beers from a wide range of breweries always adds to the temptation of brewing our own beers but hardly any of us ever get around to it. Home Brewing can seem like a daunting task, to set up a microbrewery you need experience in the industry, industrial grade microbrewing […]

What and why Pearly Queen beer? Pearly Queen is a London based honey beer company cofounded with me, Meetal Patel, and my friend John Leiper. We have been keeping bees since 2010, but only considered brewing after one night in the pub after a hard day’s beekeeping, when we decided to join our two loves […]