They say…

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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Molen Hot & Spicy

Great British Beer Festival 2011

ABV: 10.2% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Website: http://www.brouwerijdemolen.nl/

De Molen Hot & Spicy in its Bordeaux cask at the Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court, London August 2011

The big wooden barrels full of weird and wonderful beers that De Molen’s Menno Olivier brings to the Belgian/Dutch/Italian bar […]

Little Valley Organic Hebden’s Wheat

Great British Beer Festival 2011

ABV: 4.5% Origin: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England Website: www.littlevalleybrewery.co.uk

Little Valley Organic Hebden's Wheat

My day of sampling British cask beers at this year’s Great British Beer Festival turned out to be rather lacklustre, but one pleasant surprise was this tasty organic Belgian-style wheat beer from the […]

Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve No 3

Great British Beer Festival 2011 London beer tastings 2011

ABV: 9% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Brewer's Reserve No 3 maturing in whisky barrels in a spare corner of the Fuller's brewery, London W4, January 2011

I make no apologies for choosing a release of Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve as one of […]

Devils Backbone Barclay’s London Dark Lager

Great British Beer Festival 2011

ABV: 5.8% Origin: Roseland, Virginia, USA Website: www.dbbrewingcompany.com

Devils Backbone Brewing Company

Many people assume UK lager is a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from the 1960s when the emerging big brewing groups first made a concerted effort to market a handful of rather undistinguished national brands. In fact […]

Broumov Opat Kvasničák Pepper

Great British Beer Festival 2011, Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 5% Origin: Broumov, Králové Hradecký kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.pivovarbroumov.cz

Broumov Opat Kvasničák Pepper

The Broumov brewery, by the Polish border, claims a history back to 1348, when the townspeople were first granted rights to brew, although the current plant dates from 1866. […]

Around 400 beers in five books: Cogan & Mater

Around Bruges in 80 Beers by Chris Pollard & Siobhan McGinn

There’s a particular challenge to writing guidebooks. You need to include as much information as possible for people putting them to practical use, but all those data — addresses, opening hours, venue facilities — are otherwise deadly dull. Somehow the book needs […]

Redchurch Brewery (first report)

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates

Redchurch Brewery, London E2

Microbrewery 273 Poyser Street, London E2 9RF 7.4km/4.6 miles from central London Web http://theredchurchbrewery.com f The-Redchurch-Brewery tw redchurchbrewer

Brewing, it seems, has many functions besides providing the world with one of the most joyously delicious beverages yet invented, and one of them […]