Brew By Numbers

Location: 75-79 Enid Street

Opening hours: Saturday 1100-2000

Other days: Sunday 1200-1800, Friday 1700-2200

Official site: http://www.brewbynumbers.com/

Last updated: 28/12/2018

Brew By Numbers: such a fundamental part of the Bermondsey Beer Mile that they're effectively on it twice. Looking down Enid Street from outside Cloudwater, you'll quickly see the hanging BBNo sign that marks their Tasting Room at number 75. It's a nicely constructed room with plenty of space, but it's not the brewery - that's a couple of doors further down at number 79. In the olden days, Saturday afternoon drinks were held at the taproom in the brewery itself, which was notorious for always being packed: inevitably, no matter the weather, you had to drink outside on the street, balancing your glass precariously on the wooden pallets stacked on the pavement.

These days, you can do both: the tasting room at 75 and the taproom at 79 are both open, running eight or so taps apiece, mostly BBNo with the occasional guest beer. The taproom's mostly standing space, but better on next-to-the-brew-tanks atmosphere, and I guess the beer might be fractionally fresher as a result. You will, of course, still have to cope with the usual problem with BBNo's beers: their insistence on giving each of them a four-digit serial number rather than a name means that you can never remember what you've actually drunk of theirs from one session to the next. Take a notebook with you just to be on the safe side.

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