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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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The Park Brewery

The Park Brewery, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT1

BreweryOriginal site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)theparkbrewery.comFirst sold beer: March 2014

Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and […]

Orbit Beers

Orbit Beers, London SE17

Brewery225 Fielding Street SE17 3HD (Southwark)(Taproom at 233 Fielding Street SE17 3HJ)orbitbeers.comFirst sold beer: August 2014

Robert Middleton worked in occupational pensions until deciding to take a career break travelling round his native Scotland visiting breweries, resulting in a book, The Tea Leaf Paradox: Discovering Beer in the Land of […]

OMEBEER

Formerly One Mile End, Mulligans.

OME Beer, London N17

Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: White Hart, 1 Mile End Road E1 4TP (Tower Hamlets)Second site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)First sold beer: June 2013 (at original site as Mulligans; second site first sold beer as Redemption February 2010)Ceased brewing: January […]

Monkey Chews (Montague Arms)

Monkey Chews Brewery, London SE15. Pic: South East London CAMRA.

Closed brewpubMontague Arms, 289 Queens Road SE15 2PAFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: by end 2015

The landmark Montague Arms, a big roadside pub between New Cross and Peckham which was once renowned as a music venue, was rescued from potential closure in 2014. Brewing […]

Mondo Brewing (Hogs Back)

Mondo Brewing, London SW8

Brewery86 Stewarts Road SW8 4UG (Wandsworth)mondobrewingcompany.comFirst sold beer: April 2015

In a distinctive industrial building on a quiet street between Battersea Power Station and Clapham, Mondo was created by two US expat homebrewers, Tom Palmer and Todd Matteson.

After some early pilot beers at UBREW, it began commercial production in March 2015 […]

Moncada Brewery

Moncada Brewery, London NW2

Brewery, taproomOriginal site: 5 Grand Union Centre, West Row W10 5AS (Kensington & Chelsea)Second site: 1 Buspace Studios, Conlan Street W10 5AP (Kensington & Chelsea)Final site: 37 Humber Road NW2 6EN (Brent)moncadabrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 22 October 2011Ceased brewing: by September 2021

Former chef Julio Moncada, originally from Argentina, was planning […]

Meantime Brewing Company (Asahi)

Meantime, London SE10

Closed breweryOriginal site: Units G-H2 Penhall Lane SE7 8RX (Greenwich)Last site: 1 Lawrence Trading Estate, Blackwall Lane SE10 0ARmeantimebrewing.comFirst sold beer: April 2000Ceased brewing: 1 May 2024

Old Brewery GreenwichBrewpub no longer brewingPepys Building, Old Royal Naval College SE10 9LW First sold beer: February 2010Brewing ceased: January 2016

Founded by one of […]

Long Arm Brewery (ETM)

Long Arm Brewery, London EC2

BrewpubOriginal site: Ealing Park Tavern, 222 South Ealing Road W5 4RL (Ealing)Current site: 20 Worship Street EC2A 2DX (Islington)longarmpub.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2015 (at original site)

The brewing arm of the ETM pub group, owned by brothers Ed and Tim Martin, began operations in 2015 with a 10 hl […]

London Brewing Co

London Brewing, London N12

BrewpubOriginal site: The Bull, 13 North Hill N6 4AB (Haringey)Current site: The Bohemia, 762 High Road N12 9QH (Barnet)londonbrewing.comFirst sold beer: September 2011 (at the Bull)

Dan Fox, former manager of legendary beer pub the White Horse, took over Highgate pub the Bull in 2011, establishing the London Brewing Co […]

Gorgeous Brewery (N6, Haringey)

Former brewpub, no longer brewing in LondonThe Bull, 13 North Hill N6 4BXgorgeousbrewery.comFirst sold beer: September 2011 (as London Brewing), August 2016 (as The Bull Brewing Co)Ceased brewing in London: Feburary 2022

Dan Fox, former manager of legendary beer pub the White Horse in Parsons Green, set up on his own in 2011 by […]