I know there are a few fans of the Meantime Brewery on here so, not sure if you have seen, but their new bar/cafe/restuarant opens on the 23rd of March...
www.oldbrewerygreenwich.com
Personally I can't wait as love the Union but the setting on this place sounds great.
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Slight off topic but i just heard that the Swan has been bought byt someone and is going to be turned nito a bistro. Now whether this is complete tosh i dont know... but it does had a nice lick of white paint.
However, have never quite got on with Meantime's stuff. Dunno why. I want to like it - local small business and all that - but I just don't rate it.
And the Greenwich Union is an absolutely terrible "pub". Why go in there when the best pub in Greenwich is immediately next door?
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That slightly annoys me, as I love correcting the barstaff at my local when they tell punters who ask where the lager is from "it's brewed in Greenwich". Actually, it's brewed in Charlton I correct them, providing maps, receipts and other documentation to prove the point. Now it seems, they finally ARE going to brew in Greenwich, like they've claimed to for years. Sounds like the microbrewery there is so small it will only really supply that new bar/cafe itself, and everything else will come from SE7, but it's still annoying that Meantime is no longer going to be JUST brewed in Charlton. Gadnammit.
I think that makes me love it even more !!
P.S as Charlton is in Greenwich I guess it technically has been brewed in Greenwich. It’s like when I try and chat up girls, if they ask me where I’m from I say “Greenwich” then I enjoy the look of disappointment when the taxi pulls up in Eltham.
Bar Menu
£2.50Curried peanuts for a bag of peanuts
£2.50Middle white pork scratching's for a pack of pork scratchings????
£3.50Hand cut chips for a packet of crisps WTF
£11.00Grilled Galloway beef burger with Applewood cheddar, whole grain mustard mayo, homemade tomato relish, chips and mixed leaf salad, Lets get this right a burger for 11 quid
£12.00Fish & chips – Fillet of haddock- Home made tartare sauce
It is fish and chips.
This pub should be avoided unless you are fooking minted you lot are craz\y
Brewery circled. Exactly halfway between the Valley and the Flood Barrier.
First discovered Meantime beers at the 2003 Stockholm Beer Festival, where they had a huge stand. Was amazed to spot SE7 in the address on the bottles. Apparently their bottled beer was big in the States and Scandinavia way before they started getting known over here. They were originally marketed towards Yanks, hence all the references to Greenwich, the meridan, etc.
Glad to see they've really started taking off in recent years. My local in Brighton, the only lager they do is Meantime Helles, and more and more away games I'm finding pubs with a couple of Meantime beers on (eg London Stout in a pub near Carrow Road). The good thing about them doing keg rather than cask beers is places that do Meantime do it permanently (on a huge Meantime-branded pump), whereas cask ales tend to only be on for a week or two before changing to something else.
Still gutted about the Lavender Porter though.
And whoever is complaining about prices in the Union should try the Rake in Borough Market. I've paid £6 for a THIRD of a pint of beer in there, and they charge £3 for a bag of crisps. Crikey!
Its boss Alistair Hook is a Charlton fan, I believe.
I don't know though, cavier and arras could be a good crack.
What i would have peeeed my pants larfing and said your alrite keep it
i saw a programme last night where the fella was give a shot of whiskey that was 250 squid a dram now i am hoping a dram is scottish for 20 bottles
Once payed 36 bucks for 4 halves in a hotel in New York, and tipping the balance of the 40 was pretty much mandatory. The scenery both indoor and out the window was impressive, but I wouldn't get trashed in there.
£12 per pint over there in some bars!!
WHAT no fooking way
worth paying if you see the women (and have bought a bottle of vodka duty free at the airport!)
May well check this out on Friday lunchtime the pub.
Looks promising......
Bit pricey tho but still worth the visit.
Kin Hell