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7000 Jars of Beer, Kingston Town, Kingston Upon Thames

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1 Crown Passage
Kingston Upon Thames
KT1 1JB

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Rex Rattus left this review about 7000 Jars of Beer

This place doesn't seem to have changed since previous reviewers' visits, effectively being a small micro-pub in a passageway just off Kingston Market Place. It was quite busy when I visited on Saturday with the two small tables near the entrance being occupied by punters watching the rugby, and the slightly larger table (or perhaps two small tables pushed together) occupied by what looked like a childrens' play group. With the kids playing quietly and the adults watching the rugby being somewhat more agitated it made a rather unusual juxtaposition of pub users.

There was no real ale, so I had a half (at £4.30 at the top end of the pricing range) of a stout called Ideal Day. As there was nowhere to sit inside I took myself outside to sit at one of the small tables in the passageway. This pub was a bit of a novelty, but not somewhere that I would wish to spend any length of time.

On 22^nd February 2026 - rating: 4
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Quinno _ left this review about 7000 Jars of Beer

Side street bottle shop with a small and uninspiring seating area for on-trade consumption – you’d struggle to fit double figures in. Four keg offerings (WhatPub says real ale – there wasn’t), I plumped for a Cloudwater Midwinter. Always a bit hard to score these places as the on-trade is often very much a secondary option and with just the four keg offerings in basic surrounds this one is really only a should-do for the hardened beer enthusiast as opposed to hardened pub-goer.

On 24^th April 2024 - rating: 5
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Pub SignMan left this review about 7000 Jars of Beer

Down a narrow alleyway in the centre of town, this is a decent little bottle shop/craft beer bar. Like most ventures of this nature, the premises comprises a simple single room layout, with a linoleum tile floor and large rows of shelves down either side wall, filled with an impressive number of bottles and cans, although perhaps not quite the 7,000 implied in the pub’s name. Despite this, there’s enough space between all the booze for some tables and chairs plus one high table with bar stools, providing sufficient seating on a quiet Thursday evening. The bar is to the rear and has a brick counter front with a metal top in front of the usual white tile bar back with all of the keg taps lined up along it, leaving some space to the side for shelves holding all the glassware. The room has been painted in a pleasant dark shade which sets it apart a little from the usual plain, uninspired bottle shop décor. Things get back on track with a vast collection of pump clips which have amassed over to one side of the bar, as well as a beer bottle display to the left of the bar back and a few posters for the nearby Park Brewery dotted around elsewhere. The place had a very laidback midweek vibe which was enhanced by a chilled reggae soundtrack which chugged away in the background.
It's not all about the bottled beer here, as four draught keg beers are available at the bar. On this visit, they were from the likes of Ayinger and Up Front, although I ended up trying a pint of the Drop Project Crush, which was a very drinkable NEIPA. All of the stuff on the shelves is available to drink in as well as for takeout, although unusually, I don’t think a single customer came in for off sales whilst I was here. The barman seemed pretty friendly and spent the entire duration of my visit chatting away to one of the locals at the bar.
These bottle shops generally leave me a bit cold, but I thought this was marginally better than your average example. I quite enjoyed my time here and wouldn’t have minded staying for another, had I not needed to leave for a gig. This place adds something a bit different to Kingston’s otherwise rather modest pub scene and whilst it’s far from a destination venue, it’s worth a look in passing if you fancy something a bit out of the ordinary.

On 13^th December 2021 - rating: 6
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