Big Hug Social, Bermondsey, SE16

Opened around May / June 2018 this bar focuses on Swedish Craft beers and predominantly beers from a brewery called Poppels from Gothenburg and they had four of their brews on including a couple of UK brews from Ubrew. I went for something called Passion Pale Ale which was OK but hardly stunning, but at least it cost me significantly less than it would have done if I had paid for it in Sweden. The dark interior is enhanced by some funky lighting and my visit was enhanced (I think that’s the right word) by trying to find the toilets. There are those that will rave about bars like this and there were several bright young things in at the time. But sandwiched between tap rooms for two of Britain’s cutting edge craft brewers I found its presence on the Bermondsey beer mile to be a bit of an irrelevance.