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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.
Des de Moor

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Born to be Mild: London mild ale festival May 2022

Born to be Mild festival, Sambrook’s, 27-29 May 2022

Download beer list and tastings notes (PDF, updated 24 May 2022)

The great Mild Ale comeback continues! I’m co-curating the inaugural weekend-long Born To Be Mild London mild ale festival on 27-29 May 2022 at Sambrook’s Brewery Tap on the historic Ram brewery site in […]

London brewery numbers still rising, but slowly

The former Russian River brewhouse under installation at Forest Road, August 2021.

London’s brewery count rose from 131 at the end of 2020 to 136 at the end of 2021, with at least three likely to start operations in the early months of 2022. While six breweries closed, suspended production or moved out of […]

London’s Best Beer book launch

London’s 140 breweries and flourishing beer scene are celebrated this autumn in the long-awaited third edition of my award-winning guidebook London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars, published by CAMRA books. The fully updated and revised essential guide to London beer launches on 18 November with a special event at the impressive new Sambrook’s taproom […]

Beer tours restart, new book out soon.

I’m pleased to announce that, following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, my programme of beer tours has resumed from September 2021 onwards.

In another sign that London’s beer scene is getting back to something like a (new) normal, the long-awaited 3rd edition of my book London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars is at last […]

London’s Best Beer 3rd edition postponed

Update September 2021: In the event, publication was further delayed beyond March 2021 due to the ongoing lockdowns. It’s now been confirmed for October 2021: see the main London page.

Following discussions with the publisher, CAMRA Books, I’m sorry to announce that the long-awaited new edition of my book London’s Best Beer, Pubs and […]

Queer Brewing Project

Queer Brewing Project, London

Beer firmthequeerbrewingproject.comActive since: June 2018

Originating in a collaboration with Marble Brewery in Manchester linked with an art exhibition during Manchester Beer Week, this is a collaborative project to promote greater diversity, acceptance, and visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the beer and brewing industries, and to raise money for relevant […]

Closed and renamed London breweries

Brewhouse at the Botanist, Richmond TW9, since moved twice and now at Ignition Brewing.

For historical interest, this is a list of commercial breweries which have operated in London in recent years but have since closed, suspended brewing activities for a significant length of time, switched to brewing on other people’s equipment or relocated […]

London’s Best Beer: Trebles all round

Brixton Brewery brands its new site in August 2018, financed by Heineken.

London’s Best Beer, the book that chronicled the seemingly unstoppable expansion of beer and brewing in the UK’s capital, will soon be back for a third edition. I’m just starting work on completely revising and updating this award-winning guide from CAMRA Books […]

Love beer hate pubs?

Here’s a challenge to the pub resurrectionist: The Spanish Steps, Woodpecker Road, London SE14, derelict for many years.

Anyone taking an interest in the discussion around beer and pubs in the UK over the past few years must surely have experienced cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, there’s a steady stream of gloomy […]

London update: brewing in the shadow of the multinationals

Brewhouse and Kitchen Highbury: a newer, bigger kit than originally planned in one of London’s newest brewpubs.

It’s now a year since the main text of the latest edition of The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars was finalised, and speciality brewing in the city continues to expand. The most […]