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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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Big Hug Brewing

Big Hug Brewing, London

Beer firmbearhugbrewing.comActive from: February 2014

Though a few early brews in 2014 were on a pilot kit under the name Bear Hug, this trio of friends based in Peckham reconciled themselves to hobo brewer status after a fruitless search for sites. The name was changed to Big Hug in May […]

London breweries addenda 2019

London breweries, Lost, Honest Brew, Beatnikz Republic […]

Zerodegrees Blackheath

Zerodegrees brewery, London SE3.

Brewpub29 Montpelier Vale SE3 0TJ (Lewisham)zerodegrees.co.ukFirst sold beer: August 2000

Remarkably, this popular local beer and pizza venue is now the capital’s oldest-established independent brewery as well as its longest-serving brewpub. It was one of the first in the UK to draw inspiration from the US craft brewing scene, following […]

Wimbledon Brewery

Wimbledon Brewery, London SW19

Brewery8 College Fields, Prince Georges Road SW19 2PT (Merton)wimbledonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 10 July 2015

The original Wimbledon Brewery, and the last in the area for over a century, stood in the High Street between 1832 and 1889, when it burned down: somewhat ironically, a fire station was built on the […]

Wild Card Brewery

Wild Card Brewery, London E17.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 7 Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ (Waltham Forest) Final site: 2 Lockwood Way E17 5RB (Waltham Forest)wildcardbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: April 2014 (at original site)Ceased brewing: October 2024

Wild Card was the creation of three university friends, Andrew Birkby, William John Harris and former chemical […]

Twickenham Fine Ales

Twickenham Fine Ales, Twickenham TW2 (London)

BreweryOriginal site: Ryecroft Works, Edwin Road, Twickenham TW2 6SP (Richmond upon Thames) Current site: 18 Mereway Road, Twickenham TW2 6RG (Richmond upon Thames)twickenham-fine-ales.co.ukFirst sold beer:November 2004 (at original site)

Now something of a London veteran, Twickenham Fine Ales is the fourth oldest of all the London breweries and […]

Truman’s Brewery (Watney Mann Truman)

A historic Truman label with famous black eagle trademark.

This page covers the historic brewery. For more about the 21st century revival of the brand, see Big Penny and Truman (Old Truman Brewery).

Formerly Truman, Hanbury & Buxton

Closed breweryBlack Eagle Brewery, Hanbury Street E1 6QR (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: by 1669 (as Bucknall’s)Ceased […]

Three Sods Brewery

Three Sods Brewery, London E8

Closed breweryOriginal site: Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, 42 Pollard Row E2 6NB (Tower Hamlets)Final site: 339 Mentmore Terrace E8 3PH (Hackney)threesodsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)Brewing ceased: August 2022

Three business partners created this small but interesting brewery late in 2014, adopting its apparently self-deprecatory name […]

Tap East

Tap East microbrewery Stratford City, London E20.

Brewpub7 International Square, Westfield Stratford City E20 1EE (Newham)tapeast.co.ukFirst sold beer: 10 November 2011

When Westfield opened its massive Stratford City shopping mall adjoining the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in September 2011, it invited the team at Utobeer to create a brewpub for the Great Eastern Market, […]

Southwark Brewing Co

Southwark Brewing, London SE1

Brewery46 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)southwarkbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2014

Unusually for the owner of a new London brewery, Southwark co-founder Peter Jackson is an industry veteran, with many years at Whitbread and Marston’s on his CV, including as marketing director at the latter. He created this brewery, the fifth […]