{"id":6290,"date":"2026-05-27T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:15:40","slug":"let-there-be-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/let-there-be-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Let there be dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 14 March, the guys at the <a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/pressure-drop-brewery-taproom-tottenham-hale-194849\">Pressure Drop Brewery and Taproom<\/a> in Tottenham Hale kindly hosted the inaugural Beyond the Pale beer festival, inspired by Low Key&#8217;s amazing Generation Craft festival and brought to London by the enthusiasm and determination of Albina Dzyaloshinskaya.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-17.png 750w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-17-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of the pales, IPAs, lagers and bitters that appear in abundance on Britain&#8217;s bar tops, here the world of Imperial stouts, barley wines, fruit-fuelled beers, sours and black-coloured tipples was showcased in this one-day extolment of these under-celebrated delights.&nbsp; The crowd was in good cheer as they worked their way through the offerings, from the established titan that is Tartarus Beers and up-and-coming Breakbeat Brewing, who are making waves as they experiment with pushing the boundaries of Imperial Stouts.&nbsp; My fellow-drinkers and I salivated at the wares of sour-beer and fruity beer virtuosos, Dolphin Brewery.&nbsp; I personally delighted in the offerings from Amity Brew Co, Drop Project, Gravity Well Brewing, Ampersand and Libertalia Brewing. &nbsp;Crafty Apple&#8217;s small-batch libations filled a cider-shaped hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wonderful weather. &nbsp;Wonderful beer. &nbsp;I enjoyed the enthusiasm of the day and fingers crossed for a return of this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Daniel Meers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 March, the guys at the Pressure Drop Brewery and Taproom in Tottenham Hale kindly hosted the inaugural Beyond the Pale beer festival, inspired by Low Key&#8217;s amazing Generation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","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=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}