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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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Gipsy Hill Brewing Co (Sunrise Alliance)

Gipsy Hill Brewing, London SE27

BreweryUnit 11, 160 Hamilton Road SE27 9SF (Lambeth)gipsyhillbrewing.comFirst sold beer: July 2014

One of London’s biggest independent breweries, Gipsy Hill has a target to grow output to 24,000 hl in the next few years. Its footprint on the industrial estate in the like-named neighbourhood it calls home has grown […]

Fuller’s Griffin Brewery (Asahi)

Fuller’s Griffin Brewery, London W4

Formerly Fuller, Smith & Turner. Includes information for the original Lamb Brewery

BreweryChiswick Lane South W4 2QB (Hounslow)fullersbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1701 (as Mawson’s)

Shockwaves ran through the London brewing scene on 25 January 2019 when Fuller, Smith & Turner, London’s biggest brewery and its oldest by far, announced it […]

Fourpure Brewing Company (In Good Company)

Fourpure Brewing, London SE16

Closed brewery25 Bermondsey Trading Estate, Rotherhithe New Road SE16 3LL (Southwark)fourpure.comFirst sold beer: October 2013Ceased brewing: September 2024

Always one of London’s most ambitious new breweries, Fourpure became one of the biggest. Founded as the fourth Bermondsey brewery by former City technology firm executive Dan Lowe and his brother Tom, […]

40FT Brewery

40FT Brewery, London E8

BreweryBootyard, Abbot Street E8 3DP (Hackney)40ftbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 5 July 2015

The brainchild of German-born former London Fields and Truman’s head brewer Ben Ott and three homebrewing business partners, brothers Fredrik and Andreas Pettersson and current chief executive Steve Ryan, this outfit was named after its home in a converted […]

The Five Points Brewing Co

The Five Points Brewing Co, London E8

BreweryOriginal site: 3 Institute Place E8 1JE (Hackney, brewing ceased March 2021)Current site: 61 Mare Street E8 4RG (Hackney)fivepointsbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 22 March 2013 (at original site)

Five Points is one of the claimants to the title of London’s biggest independent brewery, producing around 18,000 hl in […]

Temple Brew House (City Pubs/Young’s)

Formerly Essex Street Brewing.

Temple Brew House, London WC2

Brewpub46 Essex Street WC2R 3JF (Westminster)templebrewhouse.com/breweryFirst sold beer: 20 December 2014, as Essex Street BrewingBrewing suspended: March 2020Brewing restarted: May 2022

Pub chain the City Pub Co already had brewpubs in Bath and Cambridge when it added a London branch near the Temple late in […]

East London Brewing Co

East London Brewing Co, London E10

Brewery45 Fairways Business Centre, Lammas Road E10 7QB (Waltham Forest)eastlondonbrewing.comFirst sold beer: September 2011

Former research and development chemist Stu Lascelles switched career paths in the autumn of 2011 by setting up East London Brewing (sometimes known as ELB) with his wife Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson. The first in what’s […]

Earth Ale

Earth Ale, London N22

Brewery now brewing outside LondonA007 The Chocolate Factory, 5 Clarendon Road N22 6XJ (Haringey)earthale.comFirst sold beer: July 2015Ceased brewing in London: November 2021

This project was the brainchild of professional chef Alex Lewis, a specialist in foraged ingredients who began brewing commercially on a very small scale at home for […]

Portobello Brewing Co (Sunrise Alliance)

Portobello Brewing Co, London W10

Brewery6 Mitre Bridge Industrial Park, Mitre Way W10 6AU (Kensington & Chelsea)portobellobrewing.comFirst sold beer: December 2012

See also George and Dragon (Dragonfly, Portobello at the George)

While most recent brewery start-ups in London are the work of enterprising homebrewers, Portobello was an initiative from the established industry. Back in 2006, […]

The Cronx Brewery

The Cronx Brewery, New Addington (London) CR0

Brewery6 Vulcan Business Centre, Vulcan Way, New Addington, Croydon CR0 9UG (Croydon)thecronx.comFirst sold beer: 6 August 2012

Drinks wholesaler Mark Russell and city worker-turned-brewer Simon Dale founded the Cronx as the first standalone brewery in Croydon since Page and Overton closed in 1954, operating from a 20 […]