I took a real interest in British pubs for the better part of a decade when I was living and working in Canberra… and so, what’s the most cultural thing an Aussie bloke does when visiting South America…?

He settled on a British (Gringo!) pub?! Why? Because… that’s what a gringo does, he visits a pub that is quintessentially (NOT) Peruvian, and drinks where the local British also happen to drink… never mind that there’s probably heaps of genuinely authentic craft brews in Lima, and all over Peru – but he chooses a bloody British (Colonialist) outpost to sink a few pints, and remind him of home… wait, wasn’t I trying to have a change of scenery from my home country for a while? And I am not British… by the way, but we were once British, and our culture is based off of the British, so one can be forgiven for entering an ‘old blighty’ watering hole. So, Aussie beer culture comes directly from the British (something the ‘Aussies stole from the British!’ Ha, take that… Your Royal Higher-nesses (Ello, Nessie!)

But hold up… hold up a minute! Just what is a British pub doing in Lima, and Peru of all places anyway?! It has a lot to do with the fact that Peruvians LOVE craft beer, that’s what. Peruvian’s just love the free flowing beer that comes on tap, and therefore they love a bit of old Blighty in Barranco, and they love a pub visit or two too.

Walk up to the bar and you’ll see a hand-pumped, or is it.. a hand-cranked beer? Either way it does not matter – all that matters is that there is BEER, and that in the spirit of a British pub, you get a bit of Rule Britania in South America (minus the Falkland Islands). So, gringo it up old chap, and get your arse to the Blighty Barranco brew pub serving up bloody beautiful beer!