Fridge essentials

Caleb Hargreaves

@halfbackharry

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These are the beers I keep circling back to in London, the ones that survive both end-of-month budgeting and ‘shall we just get a quick one?’ mission creep. Think of it as my liquid spreadsheet: a neat mix of styles, a bit of nerdiness on ABV, and enough range that there’s something here whether you’ve just smashed a 10k or a family WhatsApp argument.

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Name	Style	Brewery	ABV	Where I Drink It	My take
1Neck Oil	Session IPA	Beavertown Brewery	4.3%	Chain pubs near the office and pretty much every gig venue going	My default ‘I need to think about nothing’ pint – light, hoppy, and impossible to be mad at, unlike the Jubilee line after 11pm.
2Gamma Ray	American pale ale	Beavertown Brewery	5.4%	East London spots when I’m pretending to understand everyone’s tattoo choices	Juicy, big, and a bit in-your-face – the beer equivalent of a mate who always talks at 1.25x speed but you love them anyway.
3Punk IPA	IPA	BrewDog	5.4%	When the fridge at the off-licence looks like a BrewDog advert	The gateway craft beer for half of London; these days it’s less ‘edgy’ and more like that band everyone secretly still has on their running playlist.
4Proper Job	IPA (bitter-leaning)	St Austell Brewery	4.5% cask / 5.5% bottled	Traditional ale pubs when I’m feeling like someone’s dad	Big, bitter and satisfying – the kind of pint that makes you start sentences with ‘back in my day’ entirely by accident.

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