Craft Metropolis is a craft beer bottle shop and taproom based in South East London. Like many bars, breweries and bottleshops across the UK, they’ve had to navigate their way through a crazy time thanks to lockdown over the last 12 months. Founder, Oli Meade was kind enough to take some time to tell us about how the pandemic has affected them.
The first three months of 2021 have been a bit of a write-off but things are starting to look up. There’s light at the end of the tunnel, restrictions are beginning to ease, vaccinations are kicking in and the pubs are re-opening!
Brighter times are ahead, and Beavertown are celebrating that fact with a 9-month calendar to see you through the rest of 2021. The calendar features artwork from their ever-awesome Creative Director, Nick Dwyer, to help inspire and motivate you through the rest of the year.
We’ve all been there. Especially in this new era of working from home. You’re chatting away and wondering why everyone is staring at you with a slightly confused, blank expression on their face. To those who’ve been left red-faced, scrambled for the un-mute button â this one is for you.
You’re On Mute! is a brand new hazy DIPA from Yorkshire-based craft brewer, Magic Rock. In homage to the numerous video calls we now call âthe new normalâ, itâs one to add some magic to those virtual Friday night after-work drinks. Just remember to un-mute, yeah?
In collaboration with Craft Metropolis, Chris Bilko reviews DEYAâs first ever Triple IPA – sign up to their newsletter for the latest craft beer news, reviews and releases from the London based indie craft beer specialists.
Routine Bites Hard is the first ever Triple IPA from the independent Cheltenham-based craft brewery DEYA. The brewery itself, of course, has long been considered a craft juggernaut: DEYA stormed to the very top of Untappdâs independent brewery ratings chart all the way back in 2016… less than a year after moving to its own dedicated brewhouse.
Itâs kinda surprising, then, that (a collab with North Brewing aside) itâs taken DEYA so long to board the TIPA train. Surprising â but not inexplicable. After all, DEYA has hardly been a brewery hellbent on following the crowd historically. And even if it was, the Triple IPA only really rose to prominence mid last year as a relatively new phenomenon.
Either way, TIPAs are, in many ways, the best of the best. Theyâre the âbiggestâ beers made by the âbestâ breweries out there. Pollyâs are all over them. Wylam are in. Pomona. Howling Hops. Brew York. Neon Raptor. Pentrich. And now DEYA, too. READ MORE
We used to love going to rock nights, punk gigs, hanging out with friends and sharing beers… then 2020 happened. A year where bars, pubs, clubs and gigs became a distant memory.
As someone who’s been living alone and working from home for almost a year now, Twitch has been a revelation. Most people think of Twitch as a place to watch hardcore gamers flex their kill/death ratios or whatever, but there’s so much more to it. You can find people just chatting, singing, dancing, exercising… you name it, someone’s probably doing it live on Twitch.
One weekend last year we randomly found Gemma DJ-ing her regular Saturday rock night on Twitch and it brought so many memories flooding back of how we used to spend weekends in ‘real life’. She’s also built up a really friendly and inclusive community in the chat. The social interaction, good vibes and banging tunes have gone a long way towards keeping us sane during lockdown.
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