{"id":5722,"date":"2025-09-18T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:01:05","slug":"tribute-nik-milo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/tribute-nik-milo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute &#8211; Nik Milo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/464440217_8620101554694960_2126154299245204377_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/464440217_8620101554694960_2126154299245204377_n.jpg 509w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/464440217_8620101554694960_2126154299245204377_n-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am sad to report the death of Nik Milo, who many east London readers will remember as the brewer at the Falcon &amp; Firkin in Hackney (1986 to 1999).&nbsp; The F&amp;F also supplied most of the beer for the non-brewing &#8216;Firkins&#8217; in London.&nbsp; After the F&amp;F, Nick moved to the Cotswold Spring brewery in Gloucester which started brewing in 2005, ironically using the kit saved from another &#8216;Firkin&#8217;, the Felon &amp; Firkin in Leeds.&nbsp; They won a SIBA Gold Medal in 2014 for their OSM (Old Sodbury Mild).&nbsp; Cotswold Spring merged with Severn Vale Brewery in 2016 to form Combined Brewers but they closed within two years.&nbsp; Nik came to several Pig\u2019s Ear festivals and imparted his knowledge on a number of issues in helping us serve the best possible pint. &nbsp;The cellar team had a lot to thank Nik for and we shall miss him. &nbsp;RIP Nik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Derek Jones<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sad to report the death of Nik Milo, who many east London readers will remember as the brewer at the Falcon &amp; Firkin in Hackney (1986 to 1999).&nbsp;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}