Half Moon, Herne Hill, SE24

A beautiful Victorian pub (built in 1896) and a three star listing on CAMRA's inventory of historic interiors. My visit was too early in the day for a beer, which is just as well because London Pride is the only cask beer. There is a pretty decent range of keg beers in addition to the usual lagers, cider and Guinness (see photos). I made do with a coffee, which was quite bitter. I had a wander around to photograph the sumptuous surroundings. Well worth a visit if you like that sort of thing, but perhaps not so much if it's a beer you're after.

Was the last pub visited on the evening and pretty busy with what seemed like small groups that had been playing sports of the evening rather than someway into a pub crawl. It is a magnificent location and should be a magnificent pub but in spite of generally being OK with Fullers thought the beer choices on hand pump were very limited, lots of operating hand pumps but almost all seemed to be dispensing Pride (never seen four consecutive hand pumps all dispensing the same beer before, as the photo attests). Was expecting to be the best of the SE24 venues, but i enjoyed Bullfinch more (even allowing for the temperature).