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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
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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Strawman Brewery

Strawman Brewery, London SE15.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 6 Émigré Studios, 274 Richmond Road E8 3QW (Hackney)Second and final site: Arch 77, 878 Old Kent Road SE15 1NQ (Lewisham)First sold beer: June 2013Ceased brewing: January 2015

This very small brewery was originally in an arch near London Fields but soon outgrew the site and in […]

Rocky Head Brewery

Rocky Head brewery, London SW18.

Closed brewery16 Glenville Mews, Kimber Road SW18 4NJ (Wandsworth)First sold beer: 29 September 2012Brewing ceased: by December 2017

Rocky Head once claimed to be “possibly the most ramshackle brewery in the UK”, with an 8 hl kit pieced together by wine importer and former Oddbins staffer Steve Daniel and […]

Redchurch Brewery

Redchurch Brewery, London E2

Brewery moved from LondonOriginal site: 275 Poyser Street E2 9RL (Tower Hamlets)redchurch.beerCurrent site: 15 River Way, Harlow CM20 2SE (Essex)First sold beer: September 2011Ceased brewing in London: May 2019

Former solicitor Gary Ward and partner Tracey Cleland named this brewery after Redchurch Street, where they lived in Shoreditch, first launching […]

George and Dragon

Dragonfly Brewery, London W3

Also known as Dragonfly, Portobello at the George

Brewpub no longer brewing 183 High Street W3 9DJ (Ealing)georgeanddragonacton.co.ukFirst sold beer: May 2014 (as Dragonfly) Ceased brewing: January 2019 (as Portobello at the George)

Now Acton’s oldest building, the George is a coaching inn likely created by knocking two 17th century […]

Maregade Brew Co

Maregade Brewery, London E8/E9

Closed breweryOriginal site: Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street E8 1EJ (Hackney) Second and last site: 214 Ponsford Street E9 6JU (Hackney)First sold beer: September 2015 (at original site)Ceased brewing: January 2019

After Howling Hops shifted production from its original home in the cellar of Hackney’s Cock Tavern to a much […]

Little Brew

Closed brewery no longer in LondonOriginal site: Unit 21, 43 Carol Street NW1 0HT (Camden)First sold beer: June 2012Ceased brewing in London: October 2013

The name Little Brew referenced both the size of the operation, a 1.5 hl kit installed in a Camden Town back street late in 2011, and the last name of […]

Solvay Society

Solvay Society, London E11

Includes some information for Ha’penny, Hops and Glory and Warrant Officer.

Closed brewery223 Dyers Hall Railway Arches E11 4AF (Waltham Forest)First sold beer: March 2014 (at Warrant Officer)Ceased brewing: 17 December 2022

Closed brewery8 Aldborough Hall Farm, Aldborough Hatch, Ilford IG2 7TD (Redbridge)First sold beer: October 2009 (as Ha’penny Brewing)Suspended […]

Hoppy Collie Brewery

Hoppy Collie brewery, London

Closed brewery106 Fulham Palace Road W6 9PL (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: by end 2013

Californian expat homebrewer Travis Mooney installed a 2 hl kit in a basement under Hammersmith’s Symposio restaurant (now Kenta) during 2012, and after a few pilot runs, began selling US-influenced beers in […]

Florence Brewery (Greene King)

Florence, London SE24

Also known at various times as Craft Academy and A Head in a Hat.

Brewpub no longer brewing133 Dulwich Road SE24 0NG (Lambeth)florencehernehill.comFirst sold beer: September 2007Ceased brewing: by end 2018

Also:Cock and Hen (now known as the Cock Tavern)Brewpub no longer brewing360 North End Road SW6 1LY (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold […]

Earls Brewery (Earl of Essex)

Earl of Essex, London N1, former home to Earls Brewery

Brewpub no longer brewing25 Danbury Street N1 8LE (Islington)First sold beer: April 2013Ceased brewing: December 2014

Beer-friendly independent chain Barworks reopened Islington’s Earl of Essex pub in July 2012 as part of its craft-focused Grace Land group, and added an 8 hl brewhouse the […]