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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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Boxcar Brewery

Boxcar Brewery, London E9

Closed breweryOriginal site: 221 Ponsford Street E9 6JU (Hackney)Second site: 1 Birkbeck Street E2 6JY (Tower Hamlets)boxcarbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2017 (at original site)Ceased brewing: 23 Feburary 2023 (at second site)

Boxcar began on a modest scale when head brewer Sam Dickison, formerly of Moncada, Hammerton and Laine, teamed up […]

Block Brewery (Wenlock Arms)

The very small Block brewery at the Wenlock Arms, London N1

Brewpub no longer brewing26 Wenlock Road N1 7TA (Hackney)wenlockarms.comFirst sold beer: 25 December 2016Ceased brewing: February 2023

This legendary beer pub, happily saved from demolition and reopened in 2013 following a local campaign, added a small in-house brewery late in 2016.

Brewer Eugene […]

Bianca Road Brew Co

Bianca Road Brew Co, London SE16

BreweryOriginal site: Unit 1, 95 Haymerle Road SE15 6SJ (Southwark) Second site: 19 Pages Walk SE1 4SB (Southwark) Current site: 83 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark)biancaroad.comFirst sold beer: 21 May 2016 (at original site)

Engineer Reece Wood decided to start his own brewery after completing an epic cycling […]

Ignition Brewery

Ignition Brewery, London SE26

Brewery44A Sydenham Road SE26 5QF (Lewisham)ignition.beerFirst sold beer: 30 May 2017

Not just a brewery, this is a social enterprise employing and training people with learning disabilities, founded by economist Nick O’Shea, who has also been heavily involved with human rights charity Liberty.

Beers were brewed at UBREW from […]

Battersea Brewery

Battersea Brewery, London SW11

Battersea Brewery BatterseaBrewpub12 Arches Lane, Battersea Power Station SW11 8AB (Wandsworth)batterseabrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2018

Battersea Substation BermondseyBrewery, taproom8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)batterseabrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018 (as Partizan), August 2023 (as Battersea)

Battersea Brewery, London SW11

One of London’s smarter railway arch breweries, this original Battersea brewpub […]

Signal Brewery

Signal Brewery, Beddington CR0 (London)

Brewery8 Stirling Way, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4XN (Sutton)signallager.comFirst sold beer: January 2016

The roots of Signal go back to the day when South African-born chemical engineer Murray Roos’s children claimed the garden shed, previously home to his homebrewing setup, as a play space, and his wife told […]

Concrete Island Brewery

Formerly Small Beer Brewing Company.

Concrete Island Brewery, London W12

Brewery, no visitors pleaseWood Lane W12 (Hammersmith & Fulham)concreteislandbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2017 (as Small Beer)

Located near the Westway, this is one of London’s very smallest commercial breweries. It’s run by Steve Smith, an award-winning London Amateur Brewers member who works on a […]

Small Beer Brew Co

Small Beer Brew Co, London SE16

Brewery70 Verney Road SE16 3DH (Southwark)theoriginalsmallbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2017

In the 17th century, small beer was the lowest-strength product of a brewery, consumed daily by people of all ages in preference to water. It was usually made by sparging (rinsing) the mash a final time after the […]

Spartan Brewery

Spartan Brewery, London SE16

Beer firm, former and planned future breweryspartanbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018Brewing suspended: 17 June 2023

Software engineer Colin Brooks and financial risk analyst Mike Willetts homebrewed together for over five years before making their first commercial beers under the Spartan brand as cuckoos at now-closed shared Bermondsey brewery UBREW […]

St Mary’s Brewery

St Mary’s Brewery, London NW3

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSt Mary’s Church, Elsworthy Road NW3 3DJ (Camden)stmarysbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2017Brewing suspended: July 2022Brewing resumed: October 2024

Stephen Reynolds, church warden at St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, started this brewery as a way of raising money for the church’s youth work. The first beer, […]