Small modern bar just outside Brixton station, opened late September 2012 by Craft Beer in former ‘Hive’ restaurant. Spartan décor with upstairs seating area adorned with brewery prints. Younger sister of the Craft Beer Co in Clerkenwell and in the same ownership also as the Cask Pub & Kitchen in Pimlico.

There are 10 handpumps, one reserved for the Craft Pale (house beer). others varying guest beers from micros (e.g. Otley, Thornbridge) and one selling a pasteurised cider. Post-Covid, a selection from no more than six cask ales is likely to be available. 18 other British, continental and American beers and two ciders are served on keg taps above the bar. Beers are priced according to their strength.

Pork pies are available.

It stays open an extra hour on weekday evenings when there is a gig at the nearby Brixton Academy.