Queens Head, Shoreditch, E1

A modern American style bar with one long room, raised at the back with the brew kit right at the rear visible through glass partitioning, It looks as though the raised area possibly doubles up as a stage, there are indeed stage lights aimed at it though maybe just for show as I didn't see anything advertised. A range of Goose Island beers are available on tap along with a couple of guests, I tried one of these , Magic Rock Highwire Grapefruit edition, very nice but at £3.25 a half, not particularly cheap. All in all a decent place.

Smart modern brewpub.Friendly knowledgable staff.As mentioned below loads of Goose Island kegs.I tried their mild and a whisky barrel aged both beers okay but the star of the show was Wylam -mocchiato 6.5 on cask.Superbly finished interior with the brewing kit on show and lovely toilets.

This Shoreditch bar location has gone through a few incarnations in recent years and was formerly a bar known as The Traders Bar before becoming the Drunken Monkey for a few years. And then in October 2018 it opened as the Goose Island Brew Pub, the Chicago based American brewers first brew pub venture in the UK. A long thin modern style bar with the serving area on the left as you enter and high wooden tabled seating to the right stretching down to further lower seating beyond the bar with the brewing equipment behind glass at the far end with a chalk board display indicating what they are brewing in it, which for my visit was something called Restrictor Plate IPA. The bar has a nine-tap keg unit providing Goose Island brews and alongside the aforementioned Restrictor Plate IPA was their standard Goose IPA, 312 Urban Pale Ale and Four Star Pils amongst others. But then also a couple of cask ale pumps either side of this tap unit which had Siren Broken Dream Stout (lovely !) and Burning Sky Aurora on each pair. Say what you will about Goose Island, one of the first American Craft brewers who lost the brewing community credibility when being bought by the global drinks giant InBev in 2011, but they still brew decent stuff that’s a lot better than Budweiser for example. Food is available and you shouldn’t be surprised that this centers on Chicago style Pizza’s. So, this is another good addition to the Shoreditch drinking scene as the craft beer revolution continues to change the drinking landscape. It’s a good comfortable bar but I’m not such a fan of Goose Island beers to be gagging to return to this one especially with an increasing number of other venues now showcasing London craft brewers.