Comments on: Tasty treats at the Charles Lamb

By: Good Beer, Good Pubs » Blog Archive » Clerkenwell to Angel to Old Street

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:30:53 +0000

[...] Charles Lamb is reviewed glowingly at Boak and Bailey’s beer blog – a review which prompted me to want to go. The pub was very busy for a Monday night with a [...]

By: Good Beer, Good Pubs » Blog Archive » Evening Pub Crawl of Lewes – Part 3

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:36:20 +0000

[...] located on a small backstreet and is quite a tiny pub inside. It reminded Jon and I of the Charles Lamb near Angel tube station in London – a larger room with small areas [...]

By: Bailey

Bailey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:31:41 +0000

Dark Star and Crouch Vale are two breweries whose products I am always pleased to see on sale. London landlords: ditch the Deuchars and Bombardier and get ‘em in!

By: The Beeralist

The Beeralist — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:35:35 +0000

Thanks for the piece on the Charles Lamb. I’d never been there before and a friend and I had a nice couple of pints of Hophead there the other night. Dark Star beers are always worth going out of the way for.

The Jaipur had unfortunately disappeared by then or was it just off – I don’t know. Shame as I was looking forward to that too.

We both ate and the food was good too – but yes, not the cheapest establishment.

By: leigh

leigh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:02:21 +0000

fully agree RE; what’s sessionable, and what’s not. for me, too many great american beers are too much to be sessionable, and therein lies thier downfall…

By: The Gunmakers Arms

The Gunmakers Arms — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:39:28 +0000

I’d say that beers like, say, Timothy Taylor Landlord or Dark Star Hophead beat the Americans at their own game, because it offers much more flavour with only about half the alcohol content. Jaipur’s great but it’s still too strong for session drinking and therefore has a very limited market, here or anywhere else (including the US).

By: leigh

leigh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:06:01 +0000

I agree re: Jaipur. I almost want to say its like beating the americans at thier own game…

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:44:13 +0000

A nice place when it’s not too crammed – and as Jeff says, the snacks are exorbitantly priced.

We tried the maibock a few weeks ago in Rochester (the Man of Kent which has 3 Meantime beers on tap) and like you, we found it rather wanting in all departments. A nice idea perhaps…

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:55:08 +0000

Don’t forget about Mascha, the pub dog. I find dogs in the pub are one of the more charming aspects of British pubs. It’s rare that you find that here in the States.

By: The Gunmakers Arms

The Gunmakers Arms — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:22:10 +0000

PS. Like the Charles Lamb a lot too. Lovely pub. The only beef I have with them is how much they charge for their Scotch eggs and pork pies! I used to sell the same ones so know exactly how big a mark-up they were applying – and it was pretty massive!