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Des de Moor
Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
Accredited Beer Sommelier
Writer of "Probably the best book about beer in London" - Londonist
"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Tankleys Brewery

Tankleys Brewery, Sidcup DA15 (London)

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSidcup DA15 (Bexley)tankleysbrewery.comActive since: November 2015First sold beer: Due by May 2024

Australian-born homebrewer Glenn Heinzel first brewed commercially under the name Tankleys (an obscure family pun) at UBREW late in 2015. A year later, fellow UBREW users Beerblefish began brewing in their own right on […]

Hopewell Brewery (Lockdown Room)

Lockdown Room, London E14

BrewpubHopewell Square, London E14 0SY (Tower Hamlets)thelockdownroom.comFirst sold beer: March 2024

As the name Lockdown Room suggests, this popular bar-restaurant and event venue on London City Island, a recent development in a horseshoe meander of the river Lea near Canning Town, evolved from an initiative to supply the community during […]

London breweries 2023

By the end of December 2023, there were 110 commercial breweries operating in London, including 28 brewpubs. Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms) SW9, Lambeth, brewpub Anomaly Brewing KT3, Kingston upon Thames, no visitors Anspach & Hobday CR0, Sutton Babel Beerhouse (Odyssey, formerly Little Creatures Regents […]

Big Drop Brewing Co

Big Drop, London.

Beer firmbigdropbrew.comActive since: October 2016

Former lawyer Rob Fink and designer James Kindred launched Big Drop as a specialist brewer of beers of 0.5% ABV and less after Rob noticed a gap in the market when he gave up drinking for an extended period. They began by cuckoo brewing at now-closed […]

Libertalia Brewing Co

Libertalia Brewing Co, London E10

Brewery142 Tilbury Road, London E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)instagram.com/libertaliabrewingcoFirst sold beer: November 2023

Christos Daskalopoulos and Matt Dean met when they were both working at an Athens brewpub. Matt later went to Meantime but ended up working alongside Christos again when Greek brewery 56 Isles set up 3 Locks as […]

Blondies Brewery

Blondies Brewery, London E10

Beer firm, planned brewpubPatchworks, 258 Church Road, London E10 7JQ (Waltham Forest)blondiesbar.co.ukPlanned for: Feburary 2024

Blondies is a popular Clapton bar and music venue opened by sisters Sharmaine and Verity Cox in 2016. The sisters always planned to add their own brewery but struggled to find a site: plans for […]

London breweries 2022

The nanobrewery at BBNo, Bermondsey, April 2022.

By the end of December 2022, there were 122 commercial breweries operating in London, including 29 brewpubs. Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden NEW!40FT Brewery E8, HackneyAffinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms) SW9, Lambeth, brewpubAnomaly Brewing KT3, Kingston upon Thames, no visitorsAnspach & Hobday CR0, SuttonBattersea Brewery SW11, Wandsworth, […]

Lucky Saint

Lucky Saint, London W1.

Beer firmAlso known as Not Another Beer Co.58 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5EAluckysaint.coActive since: October 2018

Founded by Luke Boase, London-based Lucky Saint commissions a much-admired and widely available unfiltered alcohol-free pale lager to its own recipe. The beer is made at a historic Bavarian brewery in accordance with the […]

Firkin Brewery (Fox and Firkin Lewisham)

BrewpubBrewery: 15 Whitburn Road SE13 7UQ (Lewisham)Pub: 316 Lewisham High Street SE13 6JZfoxfirkin.comFirst sold beer: October 2023

Firkin Brewery, London SE13

This busy music pub became a brewpub towards the end of 2023, with a facility known as the Firkin brewery added in a former Sainsbury’s depot at the back. The project was the […]

3 Locks Brewing Company

Also known as Hawley Wharf Brewing Company.

3 Locks Brewing Company, London NW1

BreweryArch N4 Dockray Place NW1 8QD (Camden)3locksbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2022

Founded by Marinos Alexandrou of the 56 Isle brewery in Paros, Greece, this enterprise occupies several arches under two branches of the Overground, with a taproom and shop located in […]