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Mick Mac Wrote:

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> If it's the Rake at Borough Market you are

> referring to, I went there with a couple of

> smokers and spent the evening drinking expensive

> beer in a car park. Took the edge off the nice

> beer experience.


Some people enjoy drinking cocktails on top of a piss-smelling multi-storey car park in Peckham. Takes all sorts ;-) FWIW I love The Rake. Only five minutes from work and always a friendly welcome. It's fair to say they always warn people if the beer is 'pricey'. And, as been pointed out, there's always a decent ale on for under four quid.

DaveR

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I like the Rake, but currently drinking more frequently in the Old Red Cow in Smithfield, which has a great selection of cask and keg, and is the closest pub to work that's not a City hell-hole. I still have a psychological block about paying more than a fiver a pint (or at least much more than a fiver), and most of the really expensive stuff is way over strength IPA which I don't like anyway.
Jeremy

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DaveR Wrote:

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> I like the Rake, but currently drinking more

> frequently in the Old Red Cow in Smithfield


Bit out the way for us south-Londoners though, innit?


> most of the really expensive

> stuff is way over strength IPA which I don't like anyway.


I quite like that stuff, but it's really only suitable if you're staying for "just the one".

DulwichFox

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Googleing Most expensive pint in Britain


At ?5.80, London pub sells probably the most expensive pint in Britain


The Coach & Horses proclaims itself as Soho's "most famous pub" ? but it now has a less appealing claim to celebrity.


The historic watering hole for some of London's most raffish residents sells what is claimed to be the most expensive pint in Britain.


Even legendary former clients such as columnist Jeffrey Bernard may have baulked at the eye-watering ?5.80 for a pint of Leffe, the draught Belgium beer, sold at Tesco for about ?2.


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/at-580-london-pub-sells-probably-the-most-expensive-pint-in-britain-6471997.html


Obviously Google has never heard of or reached East Dulwich..


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Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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Oooh. fooking heck chuck. When I were a lad keg beer was considered so fooking shite that CAMRA was formed and got rid of all that crap like, ooh here we go, trip down memory lane... Watneys Red Barrel, Worthingon E, Double Diamond and Charrington's Best.


Mine's a light and bitter. Ta luv.

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Oooh. fooking heck chuck. When were a lad keg beer

> was considered so fooking shite that CAMRA was

> formed and got rid of all that crap like, ooh here

> we go, trip down memory lane... Watneys Red

> Barrel, Worthingon E, Double Diamond and

> Charrington's Best.

>

> Mine's a light and bitter. Ta luv.


Yup if only the big breweries back then had grown beards and made it "Craft Red Barrell" they'd have got away with selling gassy kegged crap for a premium price too

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