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Shortest visit to London to date: after a timely arrival at St Pancras Station, we had a Malay lunch at Roti King, then a quick pint at the Euston Tap, before boarding our train to Glasgow again.
We narrowly escaped overheating, since apparently the AC in some of the other coaches wasn’t working…
BrewDog
We’ll be leaving for our next Scotland trip soon, and there were still two subjects about the our Aberdeen trip I wanted to discuss. One of them is BrewDog, since visiting their Punk AGM 2016 was the main goal of this trip!
We managed to visit eight different BrewDog bars — six of them for the first time: Camden, Soho, Clerkenwell, Aberdeen, DogTap, Underdog, Castlegate and Shoreditch. On top of that, we visited the brewery in Ellon, and of course the Punk AGM, where we also had the opportunity to have a drink at Truck Norris. On our way back we still had the opportunity to visit BottleDog Kings X and buy a great looking growler, filled of course!
We’re quite experienced BrewDog patrons by now — we’re Equity Punks after all — but it still strikes me every time again, how passionate everybody who works for BrewDog is about craft beer, and about their company!
We usually stick with beer when visiting BrewDog bars, but this trip we also had lunch one time, at BrewDog Soho. The patty melt and hot dog were tasty for sure, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to have lunch or dinner at BrewDog.
The Dear Green coffee on the other hand, was a surprise: it surely was the best espresso we had in Aberdeen!
The last day of our trip was spent in London again. We arrived early enough to beat the crowds at Madame Tussauds, where there is a Star Wars exhibit at the moment.
We had lunch at Herman Ze German. Why isn’t schnitzel in a bun a common thing here?
Later in the afternoon we headed all the way to BrewDog Shoreditch — our eighth BrewDog bar this trip — hoping to be able to visit Two-Bit, the only Brewdog venue in London we hadn’t been to yet, at least not after it stopped being Underdog. Unfortunately they don’t open on Mondays, apparently, so that will have to wait until next time.
Honest Burgers provided us with our last meal — and beer — before going back to Brussels.
Our last day in Aberdeen we needed to recover a bit from the #PunkAGM2016, so it was quite a calm one. Strolling through the city, having an afternoon tea at CUP, and of course a last visit to both BrewDog bars.
The Caledonian Sleeper trip back to London will be slightly less comfortable than the trip up north, since we only booked sleeper seats this time. I already regret it… It’s not that I won’t be able to sleep, but actually having a whole cabin to yourself, is quite nice.
Oh well, there’s always next time. 🙂
Today is all about the BrewDog #PunkAGM2016, so we better come prepared!
