Long Arm, Shoreditch, EC2

Official site of Long Arm - longarmpub.co.uk

Facebook page of Long Arm - www.facebook.com

Official site of Long Arm - longarmpub.co.uk

Facebook page of Long Arm - www.facebook.com

First visit to this City brew pub and I will certainly pay a return visit on a different time to a late Thursday evening to see how it performs when it’s not full of City types who are beginning to bray loudly due to excess alcohol consumption. Six Long Arm keg products on and I went for their red ale which was surprisingly good. I also have to say that going through the double doors to the toilets and finding yourself in a posh hotel was a bit strange.

Modern pub, housed underneath the rear part of the Montcalm Hotel, featuring a staple-shaped bar, an opened-out room to one side and the shiny micro-brewery in the diagonally opposite corner, all under a high ceiling with industrial ventilation ducting. Seating mostly along tall benches (with power sockets and menus), although the place was mostly full of post-work vertical drinkers when I called in. Five different beers from the range available from the two banks of six craft keg taps, in a range of styles including two pale ales, an IPA and a lager, but I went for the dark Stoutford Bridge (£5.50, like the others, but they were doing two-pint steins for this price as an offer when I ordered, so that proved to be an unexpected bargain).