Generally regarded as being among Britain's modern brewing elite, and for good reason. Evin O’Riordain and his cohorts have been brewing professionally for the best part of a decade now, and in that time they have helped to change the face of London brewing. The Kernel’s success – based on a combination of powerfully flavoured American-style pale ales and old-school London dark beers, with some superb barrel-aged beers too - has forced a move from the Bermondsey railway arch where it began to another, larger arch further down the line. The brewery is open on Saturday mornings for off-sales only.