Camden Town Brewery Beer Hall — Restaurant in London

Just a 3 star review but let me tell you why. Firstly the tour guide Eddie was excellent. 5 stars for him. The tasting of 5 different beers at the start was also excellent. But......having been to a few breweries (Fullers at Chiswick and Marstons in Burton) Camden Brewery is a microbrewery. By Eddie's own admission 99% of all their output is from their brewery in Enfield. Camden is literally two small rooms underneath arches, one of which is a canning facility. The process was well explained by Eddie with the help of pictures on the wall. The other niggle happened after the tour. As expected we were offered a pint on the house but only one specific beer was included in our ticket. We had to have a pint of 'Goldie' like it or not. My son had loved their 'off brand' IPA. There was beer tap on line but 'no you can't have that'. We had to pay £6 for the IPA despite it being the same price as the Goldie. How is this even possible? In who's world is this how a brewery treats a customer who has spent £25 to tour their facility? One other small observation. There was a shop to buy merch. Why not give customers a 10% off voucher to encourage spending. Eddie did give us all a small lapel pin that was much appreciated but upon asking about buying a glass to match their 330ml cans and bottle on sale in supermarkets, the half pint being too small, the full pint too large, the barman said the 2/3rd pint glass was the one to buy but he only had a few so couldn't sell me one - 'look on the website' was his response. Again not what would expect from a place I had spent £50 on two tickets, £6 for a beer that should have been free, £25 I spent on merch (a bucket hat and some beer) and another £30 on the excellent beef sandwich in the beer hall. Overall a reasonable experience spoiled by avoidable events afterwards that with small changes, where the customer is put at the forefront of thinking, should have...

Camden Beer Hall, 9/10

The year is 2051. The North London resistance have been at war with the tyrannical South London for decades.

Defeat by their merciless cyborgs seemed almost certain when the leader of the resistance sent me back in time to stop the war from ever beginning.

“Only you can save North London now, northlondonpints,” he said as he put me in the time machine. Listen bud. You might be the leader of this resistance, but I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I’ll get us out of this mess once again.

My mission: to stop the South from ever getting their hands on the recipe for Camden Beer Hall’s unfiltered lager. With that information they would become too powerful, and overthrow humanity as we know it.

On my re-entry into the year 2021, I was greeted with the Camden Beer Hall. A stylish gaff just next to Kentish Town West station. Built into the underside of the overground railway. Very nice setup.

I had to sit down and wait for any agents of the South and prevent them from having any of the unfiltered lager. As I waited, I thought I might as well try one. While I had a spare second.

My tastebuds were transported to a world of pure elation. It was the best beer I’d ever had outside of München. I sank those 2 pictured without drawing a breath. Akimbo.

I used my phone the resistance had gave me if I needed to call for back up. “I’m under attack, send the rest of the NLP boys back!” They stormed and I told them what I’d experienced. They agreed to my plan of action. Sit here and drink as many of these as we can and hope the resistance never finds out about our truantism.

Pretty sure that odd looking bloke on the right nicked that girls’ unfiltered lager and teleported out of there. Oops. Ah well. I’m sure they’ll be fine in the future. But we’re not going back. Not when there’s still more of this unfiltered drinking to do.

Reviewed 05/08/21 on...

I’m a fan of Camden, it’s a go-to beer for me…

We’d travelled from Glasgow to London, and once we’d checked into our hotel in soho we made our way to the Camden Beer Hall.

First issue I have is the confusing naming of the venues on google maps which if you search for “Camden brewery” takes you somewhere else… they should fix this.

Anyway, we arrived at 4:55pm to discover it was shut for a private event that finished at 5pm.

We waited.

A chap came out and asked if we were here for the brewery tour, we said no we were waiting to have a drink. He said it would open in “5 minutes or so” (it was past 5pm at this point).

So we waited outside the doors waiting patiently while the event folk moved from their (what appeared to be a Camden brewery sales presentation) to the bar…

We waited.

Quarter past 5, freezing cold, watching all these other guys enjoying their beers we just left and went to a pub.

I realise it was only a 20min wait, but there were plenty of opportunities for some pretty basic hospitality to be offered up like perhaps allowing us to have a beer outside or something. But no, just left out in the cold.

It has in turn left me cold… on the...