New craft beer shop No Boring Beer is open on Lavender Hill

No Boring Beer has opened on Lavender Hill, but still has plenty more it's brewing in store for Clapham in the coming weeks.

If you're struggling to keep on top of all the shop closings and new openings around Clapham, let the struggle cease here. From the Pets at Home in Clapham South to the family run grocery store on Landor Road, via the fourth Brickwood, now on Battersea Rise and Clapham Junction's new Korean restaurant, Yori, we've got you covered.

In amongst the new pet, grocery, coffee and restaurant offerings in Clapham there emerged in August word of plans for a new craft beer shop to move into 22 Lavender Hill, previously home to the Children of the Mekong charity shop and right around the corner from the Clapham mews where Roald Dahl wrote 'Matilda' and 'The Witches.

Founded by Nikita Stepanov and his fellow beer enthusiast, Roman, south London already boasts two No Boring Beer shops – one next to Deptford station and a second on Tower Bridge Road.

The pair's third branch on Lavender Hill will eventually stock hundreds of beers which like its predecessors in Deptford and Tower Bridge, will hail from local or microbreweries.

"We started talking to loads of different craft breweries, to the brewers themselves, the owners, and we just wanted to support them. That's how we got into the area," Nikita told Clapham Nub News.

He said: "We usually taste all the beers that we have on Monday, so every new beer we buy, we taste ourselves, so we know exactly what we're selling."

No Boring Beer: A taste of things still to come

In addition to bottles, cans and refillable growlers galore, the business partners hope to secure a license for consumption on the premises. While the small space would limit indoor capacity, 50% of the pavement along the upper end of Lavender Hill belongs to the stretch of shops and could afford No Boring Beer some outside seating for residents to enjoy come spring.

That's not all No Boring Beer will have in store – quite literally, as although the shop is open supply delays mean only around 30% of its full range is in stock.

"We should receive all the rest within two to three weeks and then we should be good to go 100 per cent," said Nikita.

While that means local residents may have to wait a little longer for the specialty gluten free, low alcohol and vegan styles, Clapham will probably find No Boring Beer's assortment of barley beverages already beats most others in town.

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