Bohem Brewery opens second London venue

A London brewery has opened its second venue after taking on the lease of the Nicholas Nickleby pub in Finsbury Park.

Bohem Brewery has reopened the pub after an extensive refurbishment, with the Nicholas Nickleby joining the original Bohem Brewery Tap Room in Bowes Park.

Beer dispense at the pub has been enhanced with the installation of 10 Lukr side-pour taps, imported from a specialist Czech manufacturer, which pour beer directly from a cold storage room.  

The pub also now has London's first 'chladici vana', or cooler bath, for glassware.

What's on the bar?

The beer range at the Nicholas Nickleby includes the Bohem portfolio as well as a rotating choice of guest beers from other craft brewers.

It also includes imported Czech wine, and spirits including a rum from the Two Drifters distillery. A range of bar food is also on offer.

"Our original Tap Room is a very popular local venue, but it's small," says Bohem director and co-founder Petr Scokek. "The plan was always to expand, but it's taken far longer than we hoped due to the impact of the lockdown and the ongoing challenges facing the hospitality sector.

"It was also important that we found the right venue, and we're delighted to be up and running at the Nicholas Nickleby. We haven't set out to recreate a Czech style beer hall. We're a London brewer and we're running a proper London pub, but with a Czech twist in terms of our Czech beer dispense system, which is unique to London."

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