Brewpub Near Me in Shoreditch: Long Arm's £5 Tank Fresh Pints

Every house beer at Long Arm Brewery & Tap Room costs £5 a pint and £2.70 a half, all day, every day, and none of it ever goes into a keg, cask or bottle. The brewery and pub share one room at 20-26 Worship Street, London EC2A 2DX, on the ground floor of the Montcalm Royal London House where the City meets Shoreditch. If you searched brewpub near me from an office near Liverpool Street or Old Street, this is the closest spot where the fermentation tanks stand within arm's reach of the bar, open from noon until midnight seven days a week.

Long Arm describes itself as the first pub of its kind in the UK, built around a system it trademarks as Tank Fresh. Beer is brewed on site, left unfiltered, and served directly from the tanks, which cuts out kegging, casking and bottling entirely. The pub argues that producing and drinking beer in the same place gives it a zero or negative carbon footprint, and the production brewery is laid out so that drinkers sit in the middle of the process rather than behind a viewing window.

The pub is part of the ETM Group family of London venues, and the brewery is clearly the centrepiece rather than decoration. In the London Tasting Awards 2026 its brewers collected a gold for Tripel Armeliet and silvers for Birdie Flipper, Wave of Winter and IPA OK, which the homepage lists proudly. Six beers change daily, so the board at the bar matters more than any printed list you find online.

The current drinks menu splits the taps into core and specialty lines, and almost everything is marked gluten-reduced. Lucky Penny is a pale straw pale ale hopped with Citra, Centennial and Mosaic plus a touch of Golden Naked oats. Birdie Flipper is a balanced Irish red with a hint of toffee, poured on nitro, and Shadow Wolf is a light-to-medium dry Irish stout with roast and chocolate malt, also on a creamy nitro pour.

For hop lovers, IPA OK builds Simcoe, Galaxy and Amarillo onto a pale and pilsner malt base, and Right Arm is a red IPA the menu sums up as for the hoppy people. Arm in Arm is a gluten-free Helles brewed in collaboration with Great Beyond, Knuckle Bump is a hazy New England pale using Pacific Gem hops, and L.A.G.ER? is a Kolsch-style hybrid. On the Other Hand is an experimental one-off whose strength and ingredients change batch to batch.

Because every pour costs the same £5, the sensible move is to work along the board by halves at £2.70 and compare the two nitro beers side by side. Skip the cocktail list unless someone in your group truly will not drink beer: a Margarita or Passion Fruit Martini is £13.50, which is the price of two and a half pints of something brewed ten metres away.

The kitchen keeps things simple with smash burgers on sesame buns, priced £10.50 for a single patty and £14.50 for a double, and each comes with a suggested beer pairing on the menu. The Classic uses a British beef patty, American cheese and onions cooked in Lucky Penny, while The Firebird swaps in fried chicken with kimchi slaw and gochujang sauce. Fries add £4.50 to any burger.

Sharing plates fill out the table: buffalo hot wings with ranch or blue cheese for £12, loaded nachos for £8 and gochujang cauliflower wings for £8. On weekdays the midweek lunch deal pairs a burger with a soft drink for £10, and swapping the soft drink for a tank-fresh beer costs £2 more, which is the cheapest way to try the house brews over a working lunch.

For a closer look, the pub runs a one-hour Beer Tasting Experience led by its brewers. It covers how the unfiltered tank-to-glass beers are made, includes a guided tasting of six signature beers with nibbles for the table, and finishes with a free game of shuffleboard, all for £25 per person. It runs daily between noon and 8pm for groups of four to twelve, and it has to be booked in advance through the pub's enquiry form.

Long Arm also markets itself as a sports pub, with two giant projectors plus extra screens showing football, rugby, NFL, tennis, golf, boxing and every Formula One practice, qualifying session and race. That changes the room completely. On a big Premier League afternoon or a Grand Prix Sunday the tables fill with fans, while a Tuesday lunchtime is quiet enough to talk to the bar staff about what is fermenting.

Bookings carry a £10 per person card authentication, rising to £30 per person during the Christmas period from the second week of November, and a table is held for 20 minutes before it can be released. If a match day leaves no space, the Hammerton Brewery taproom at 149 Roman Way, Islington N7, also brews in view of its seats and opens from noon on Fridays and Saturdays.

Worship Street runs between Finsbury Square and Shoreditch High Street, so the pub works as a hinge between two very different neighbourhoods. A few minutes west, Bunhill Fields on City Road is the old Nonconformist burial ground where William Blake, Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan are commemorated, and it is one of the calmest green spaces in this part of London.

Head east instead and you reach Shoreditch High Street, Redchurch Street's independent shops and, a little further, Brick Lane and Old Spitalfields Market. A good evening plan is an hour among the market stalls and street art, then back to Worship Street for halves along the tap board before the big screens switch on for the night's fixture.

Opening hours are noon to midnight daily, with occasional closures announced on the website. The pub is completely cashless, taking cards including American Express plus Apple Pay and Google Pay, so leave the cash at home. Food prices include VAT, and a discretionary 12.5% service charge is added to the final bill.

Liverpool Street, Old Street and Moorgate stations are all within walking distance, with Liverpool Street serving the Elizabeth line and Old Street the Northern line. Staff reserve the right to refuse guests who appear intoxicated, and larger groups may be asked to pre-order from set menus. Parts of the venue are sometimes reserved for private hire, so book ahead if you want a specific table near the tanks.