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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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Brewery Below (Borough Wines)

Closed brewery344a Essex Road N1 3PD (Islington)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: by June 2018

This small brewery in the cellar of the Borough Wines bottle shop in Islington made beer in bottles and 5 l minicasks for sale in the shop. Brewing ceased after just over a year and shop has since been […]

Common Rioters Beer

Common Rioters Beer, London SE3.

Beer firm, planned brewpubThe Green Goddess, 43A Vanburgh Park SE3 7AB (Lewisham)commonriotersbeer.co.uk Active since: June 2019

The brainchild of ex-Brewhouse and Kitchen brewer Stephen O’Connor and his beer sommelier wife Maryann, Common Rioters has been active as a southeast London-based cuckoo since 2019. Beers have been brewed at a […]

Coalition Brewing

Coalition Brewing

Beer firm, planned brewerycoalitionbrewing.co.ukActive since: 2017

Launched in 2017 by three locals based in Purley and initially brewing at Hepworth in Pulborough, West Sussex, Coalition planned to open a brewpub in central Croydon during 2019 but the site fell through thanks to a regeneration scheme. In 2021, an attempt to open at […]

Cellar Boys Brewery (White Hart)

Cellar Boys, London SE14

Closed brewpub and beer firm184 New Cross Road SE14 5AA (Lewisham)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: around July 2018, active as a cuckoo until 2020.

Paddy and Joseph Ryan began this brewery in 2017 with a 50 l Braumeister kit in the cellar of their pub, the White Hart in […]

Br3wery

Br3wery, Beckenham BR3 (London)

Brewery, visitors to nearby taproom onlyOriginal site: Mackenzie Road, Beckenham BR3 4RY (Bromley)Second site: 253 Beckenham Road, Beckenham BR3 4RP (Bromley)Current site (no visitors please) Birkbeck Road, Beckenham BR3 4SNbr3wery.comFirst sold beer: February 2019 (at original site)

Cadú Gomes began brewing commercially on a small scale using a home-based kit […]

Bloomsbury Drinks Company

Beer firmbloomsburyleisuregroup.comActive since: 2018

Bloomsbury is a brand used for exclusive beers commissioned for the Bloomsbury Leisure Group, which owns the Euston Tap and its sister pubs. The beers originate at a variety of breweries in the UK and elsewhere, including Five Points.

The name was previously used for an unrelated brewery at […]

London breweries 2018

24 openings and revivals, 7 closures and suspensions, net change +17.

By the end of 2018, there were 125 commercial breweries operating in London, including 32 brewpubs. Seven were parts of multinationals (M). These breweries were:

40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co SE16, Southwark Alphabeta Brewery (Pitt Cue) EC2, City of London, brewpub […]

Kentish Town Brewery

Kentish Town Brewery, London NW5

Brewery not currently brewing, no visitors pleaseKentish Town NW5 1UF (Camden)kentishtownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2017Brewing suspended: by October 2019

This small home-based brewery was placed on hold in late 2019 while brewer Mark Drayton made a trip to Australia for family reasons. He expected to return and resume brewing […]

Fearless Nomad Brewing (Black Dog)

Fearless Nomad Brewing, Brentford (London) TW8

Brewpub not currently brewing17 Albany Road, Brentford TW8 0NF (Hounslow)blackdogbeerhouse.co.ukFirst sold beer: 18 January 2020Brewing suspended: by June 2023

After many years setting up and operating beer-friendly pubs for other companies, Ash Zobell and brothers Pete and James Brew refurbished and reopened this pub in a Brentford backstreet […]

Up the Creek Brewery (Greenwich Brewery)

Up the Creek Brewery, London SE10

Brewpub302 Creek Road SE10 9SW (Greenwich)up-the-creek.comFirst sold beer: 31 October 2018

Perhaps not the most obvious place you’d expect to find an in-house brewery, Greenwich institution Up the Creek is a comedy club in a former church hall founded by the late comedian Malcolm Hardee in 1991. But […]